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

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/160/1991-02-01

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.

1990-11-01

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Statute Law Database

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1991-02-01

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 30(4A)

Environment Act 2021

s. 57(2)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 33ZB(10A)

Environment Act 2021

s. 69(3)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 34ZB(8A)

Environment Act 2021

s. 69(5)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 45A-45AZG

Environment Act 2021

s. 57(4)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 46(2)(a)

(b)

Environment Act 2021

s. 57(5)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 161(2AA)

(2AB)

Environment (Wales) Act 2016

Deddf yr Amgylchedd (Cymru) 2016

s. 69(4)

s. 88(3)(b)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 106A

Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023

s. 41(2)

s. 46

s. 48(4)

Part IX General

C1 C2160 Service of notices.

1

Any notice required or authorised by or under this Act to be served on or given to an inspector may be served or given by delivering it to him or by leaving it at, or sending it by post to, his office.

C32

Any such notice required or authorised to be served on or given to a person other than an inspector may be served or given by delivering it to him, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by sending it by post to him at that address.

C33

Any such notice may—

a

in the case of a body corporate, be served on or given to the secretary or clerk of that body;

b

in the case of a partnership, be served on or given to a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.

C34

For the purposes of this section and of section 7 of the M1Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) in its application to this section, the proper address of any person on or to whom any such notice is to be served or given shall be his last known address, except that—

a

in the case of a body corporate or their secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;

b

in the case of a partnership or person having the control or the management of the partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;

and for the purposes of this subsection the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be their principal office within the United Kingdom.

C35

If the person to be served with or given any such notice has specified an address in the United Kingdom other than his proper address within the meaning of subsection (4) above as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept notices of the same description as that notice, that address shall also be treated for the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as his proper address.

6

The preceding provisions of this section shall apply to the sending or giving of a document as they apply to the giving of a notice.

Part IX General

C1C2160 Service of notices.

1

C32

C33

a

b

C34

a

b

C35

6

C1 C2160 Service of notices.