Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2687

Legal Aid And Advice, England And Wales

The Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012

Made

25th October 2012

Laid before Parliament

29th October 2012

Coming into force

1st April 2013

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations(1) in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 42(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(2).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 1st April 2013.

Pollution of the environment

2. The types of pollution of the environment that are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 42(1) (Environmental pollution) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are pollution of the air, water or land which causes harm to—

(a)the health of human beings or other living organisms; or

(b)the quality of the air, water or land.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

McNally

Minister of State

25th October 2012

Ministry of Justice

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Paragraph 42(1) (Environmental pollution) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) makes available civil legal services provided in relation to injunctions in respect of nuisance arising from prescribed types of pollution of the environment. The Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012 prescribe the types of pollution of the environment for which civil legal services may be available under that paragraph.

(1)

Section 42(1) provides that in Part 1 of the Act “regulations” means regulations made by the Lord Chancellor.

(2)

2012 c. 10.