http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/43

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/153/2009-04-06

Environmental Protection Act 1990

An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes; to re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste on land with modifications as respects the functions of the regulatory and other authorities concerned in the collection and disposal of waste and to make further provision in relation to such waste; to restate the law defining statutory nuisances and improve the summary procedures for dealing with them, to provide for the termination of the existing controls over offensive trades or businesses and to provide for the extension of the Clean Air Acts to prescribed gases; to amend the law relating to litter and make further provision imposing or conferring powers to impose duties to keep public places clear of litter and clean; to make provision conferring powers in relation to trolleys abandoned on land in the open air; to amend the Radioactive Substances Act 1960; to make provision for the control of genetically modified organisms; to make provision for the abolition of the Nature Conservancy Council and for the creation of councils to replace it and discharge the functions of that Council and, as respects Wales, of the Countryside Commission; to make further provision for the control of the importation, exportation, use, supply or storage of prescribed substances and articles and the importation or exportation of prescribed descriptions of waste; to confer powers to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances; to amend the law relating to the control of hazardous substances on, over or under land; to amend section 107(6) of the Water Act 1989 and sections 31(7)(a), 31A(2)(c)(i) and 32(7)(a) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974; to amend the provisions of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 as regards the dumping of waste at sea; to make further provision as respects the prevention of oil pollution from ships; to make provision for and in connection with the identification and control of dogs; to confer powers to control the burning of crop residues; to make provision in relation to financial or other assistance for purposes connected with the environment; to make provision as respects superannuation of employees of the Groundwork Foundation and for remunerating the chairman of the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council; and for purposes connected with those purposes.

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Part VIII Miscellaneous

Environmental expenditure

153 Financial assistance for environmental purposes.

1

The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, any of the following—

a

the United Nations Environment Programme;

b

the European Environmental Bureau;

c

the chemicals programme of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development;

d

the joint inter-Governmental panel on Climate Change of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation;

e

the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources;

f

the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora;

g

the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat;

h

the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and any protocol to that Convention;

i

the Convention and Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer;

j

the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals;

k

the Groundwork Foundation and Trusts;

l

the environmental protection technology scheme for research and development in the United Kingdom in relation to such technology;

m

the programme known as the special grants programme so far as it relates to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment of, or of any part of, Great Britain.

F1n

the programmes of regional and islands councils in Scotland, as local authorities exercising functions under the Sewerage (Scotland) Act M11968, for the carrying out of works to improve the quality of inland, coastal and relevant territorial waters, as defined in section 30A of the Control of Pollution Act M21974, or otherwise to benefit the environment.

F2n

the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce so far as its activities relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.

F3o

UK 2000 Scotland.

F4p

the programme known as the Environment Wales programme so far as it relates to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment of, or of any part of, Wales.

F5q

the grant programme known as the Environmental Action Fund;

r

the programmes or schemes of the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation;

s

the programmes or schemes of the International Federation for Housing and Planning so far as they relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment;

t

the programmes or schemes of the INTA.AIVN-International Urban Development Association so far as they relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment;

u

the scheme known as the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species that provides support for the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources and habitats and for the furtherance of the aims of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

F6v

the programme known as the Promotion of Positive Environmental Management in Industry Programme.

F7w

any national or international architectural award scheme or competition scheme relating to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment;

x

the National Forest Company.

F8y

the Energy Saving Trust Limited.

F9z

the Convention on Biological Diversity;

aa

the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

F10bb

the programme known as Radon Measurement and Support for Remedial Works Campaigns in England;

F11cc

the programme known as the Mersey Basin Campaign, in so far as it relates to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment, administered by the Mersey Basin Business Foundation;

dd

Going For Green Limited, in so far as the activities of that company relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.

F12ee

the programme known as the Sustainable Action Fund.

F13ff

The Tidy Britain Group.

F14gg

The Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link.

F15hh

Environmental Campaigns Limited.

F16ii

the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic.

F17jj

the programme known as Pollution Emergency Response Services;

kk

the programme known as the Waste and Resources Action Programme;

ll

the Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects to the Energy Charter Treaty;

F18mm

the programme known as the Strategic Waste Fund.

F19nn

any scheme for the storage, treatment or disposal of any material or product for the purpose of preventing or reducing environmental damage;

F20oo

the programme known as the Waste Minimisation and Recycling Programme;

pp

the Carbon Trust;

F21qq

the fund known as the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund;

rr

F22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F23rr

the programme known as the Waste Minimisation and Recycling Programme;

ss

the Carbon Trust;

tt

any scheme for the regulation of emissions from motor vehicles.

F24uu

the scheme known as the Bio-energy Infrastructure Scheme for Scotland.

F25F26uu

the International Sustainable Development Fund;

F27vv

the scheme known as the Bio-energy Infrastructure Scheme.

F28ww

~~F29the scheme known as the World Summit on Sustainable Development Implementation Fund;~~

F30xx

the programme known as the Envirowise Programme, in relation to its activities in England.

F31yy

the Zero Carbon Hub Limited.

F32zz

the scheme known as the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme.

2

Financial assistance may be given in respect of particular activities or generally in respect of all or some part of the activities carried on or supported by the recipient.

3

Financial assistance shall be given in such form and on such terms as the Secretary of State may think fit and, in particular, assistance may be given by making grants (whether or not repayable), loans or guarantees to, or by incurring expenditure, or providing services, staff or equipment for the benefit of, the recipient.

4

The Secretary of State may, by order, vary subsection (1) above by adding to or deleting from it any description of organisation, scheme, programme or international agreement whose purposes relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.

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