http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/section/41BEnvironment Act 1995An Act to provide for the establishment of a body corporate to be known as the Environment Agency and a body corporate to be known as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; to provide for the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities to those bodies and for the conferring of other functions on them; to make provision with respect to contaminated land and abandoned mines; to make further provision in relation to National Parks; to make further provision for the control of pollution, the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement of the environment; to make provision for imposing obligations on certain persons in respect of certain products or materials; to make provision in relation to fisheries; to make provision for certain enactments to bind the Crown; to make provision with respect to the application of certain enactments in relation to the Isles of Scilly; and for connected purposes.1995-07-19texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-08-04Expert Participation2026-07-16 Environment Act 1995Sch. 7 para. 7(4A) (4B)Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007Sch. 14 para. 4(3)s. 245(5) Part IChapter III41B1A charging scheme under section 41 relating to licences under Chapter II of Part II of the 1991 Act may be made by both of the appropriate agencies acting jointly (referred to in this section as a “joint charging scheme”), if that scheme prescribes charges in relation to licences granted within a combined area that—ais partly in England and partly in Wales; andbincludes all of, or any part of, the catchment areas of the rivers Dee, Wye and Severn.2A joint charging scheme must—adesignate the combined area to which it applies; andbspecify the manner in which the sums recovered by way of charges prescribed by the scheme are to be apportioned between, and paid to, each appropriate agency.3Subsections (9) and (9A) of section 41 do not apply to joint charging schemes.4Subject to subsection (5), the appropriate agencies may not make a joint charging scheme unless the provisions of the scheme have been approved under section 42 by the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers acting jointly.5Section 42 applies in relation to joint charging schemes as though references in that section to—aanything done by or in relation to either the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers were references to that thing being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers acting jointly;ba charging authority were references to both of the appropriate agencies acting jointly.6This section does not affect any power of an appropriate agency to make a charging scheme under section 41.Ss. 41B, 41C inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 19 (with arts. 24, 28)Words in Pt. I Ch. III heading inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 370 (with Sch. 7)