The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 2) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 2) Order 2002

Made

1st August 2002

Laid before Parliament

1st August 2002

Coming into force

27th August 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 153(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 2) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 27th August 2002.

Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

2.  In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(2) (purposes for which financial assistance may be given), after paragraph (pp) there shall be inserted—

“(qq) the fund known as the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund;”.

Michael Meacher

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

1st August 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 so as to confer power to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

(1)

1990 c. 43. The relevant functions of the Secretary of State in so far as they relate to Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). In relation to Wales the Secretary of State has concurrent powers with the National Assembly for Wales (see article 2 of, and the entry relating to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672)).

(2)

Varied by S.I. 1991/146, 682 and 1179, 1992/654, 1993/1062 and 1518, 1995/150, 554, 1085 and 3099, 1996/505 and 1431, 1997/651, 1998/538, 1001 and 3234, 2000/207 and 2211, 2002/1686, and by S.S.I. 2000/430 and 2002/83.