The Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2989 (W.278)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES

The Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006

Made

15 November 2006

Coming into force

10 December 2006

The National Assembly for Wales (“the National Assembly”), in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 78A(9), 78C(8) to (10), 78E(1) and (6), 78G(5) and (6)(1), 78L(4)(2) and (5) and 78R(1), (2) and (8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”)(3) and which are now exercisable in relation to Wales by the National Assembly(4), and those sections as applied in relation to harm, so far as attributable to any radioactivity possessed by any substance, by the Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (“the Modification Regulations”)(5), makes the following Regulations:

(1)

Section 78G(6) provides that regulations made under subsection 78G(5) may make such provision in relation to compensation as may be made by regulations by virtue of section 35A(4) of the 1990 Act in relation to compensation under that section.

(2)

Subsection (4) of section 78L was amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), sections 104 and 107, and Part 10 of Schedule 5.

(3)

1990 c. 43. Sections 78A to 78YC were inserted by section 57 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). See the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations” in section 78A(9).

(4)

See article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(5)

S.I. 2006/2988 (W.277).