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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) and Marine Strategy (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into force on 1st April 2018.
2.—(1) The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—
(a)in the definition of “appropriate authority”—
(i)for paragraph (b)(iii) substitute—
“(iii)as regards harbour works relating to harbours that are wholly in Wales, other than harbours that are reserved trust ports, the Welsh Ministers;”; and
(ii)for the words after paragraph (b)(iv) substitute—
“and—
for the purpose of paragraph (a), “devolved authority” means any Northern Ireland Department, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers; and
for the purpose of paragraph (b)(iii), “reserved trust port” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Wales Act 2017(2);”;
(b)omit the definition of “fishery harbour”;
(c)in the definition of “relevant authority”—
(i)in paragraph (d), for “Wales” substitute “the Welsh inshore region or the Welsh offshore region (or both)”;
(ii)after paragraph (d) insert—
“(da)where the regulated activity is likely to have a significant effect on the environment of the Welsh offshore region and the appropriate authority is not the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State;”; and
(iii)after paragraph (f) insert—
“and for the purposes of paragraphs (d) and (da), “Welsh inshore region” and “Welsh offshore region” have the meanings given by section 322(1) of the 2009 Act;”; and
(d)in the definition of “relevant offshore region”—
(i)in paragraph (a), at the end insert “or”; and
(ii)omit paragraph (b).
(3) In regulation 3 (fees)—
(a)in paragraphs (4)(a) and (d), omit “with the consent of the Treasury”; and
(b)in paragraph (4)(b), for the words from “, with the consent of” to the end substitute “with the consent of the Secretary of State;”.
3.—(1) The Marine Strategy Regulations 2010(3) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—
(a)in the definition of “competent authority”—
(i)in paragraph (b), after “region” insert “and the Welsh offshore region”; and
(ii)in paragraph (c), for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”;
(b)in the definition of “devolved marine area”—
(i)in paragraph (b), after “region” insert “and the Welsh offshore region”; and
(ii)in paragraph (c), for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”;
(c)in the definition of “devolved policy authority”, for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”; and
(d)in the definition of “Northern Ireland body”, for the words from “the Department of Agriculture” to the end substitute “the Department for the Economy and the Department for Infrastructure”.
(3) In regulation 8 (cooperation in implementation of the marine strategy), in paragraph (1)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for “or the Welsh inshore region” substitute “, the Welsh inshore region or the Welsh offshore region”; and
(b)in sub-paragraph (b)—
(i)for “a devolved policy authority or” substitute “the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland or a”; and
(ii)omit “or the Welsh offshore region”.
Thérèse Coffey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
26th February 2018
We consent
Andrew Stephenson
Rebecca Harris
Two Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
27th February 2018
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