(1)Sections 32 to 41 make provision about functions of the OEP in relation to failures by public authorities to comply with environmental law.
(2)For the purposes of those sections, a reference to a public authority failing to comply with environmental law means the following conduct by that authority—
(a)unlawfully failing to take proper account of environmental law when exercising its functions;
(b)unlawfully exercising, or failing to exercise, any function it has under environmental law.
(3)In this Part “public authority” means a person carrying out any function of a public nature that is not a devolved function, a parliamentary function or a function of any of the following persons—
(a)the OEP;
(b)a court or tribunal;
(c)either House of Parliament;
(d)a devolved legislature;
(e)the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers, a Northern Ireland department or a Minister within the meaning of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.