The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016

JurisdictionScotland
CitationSSI 2016/406
Year2016

2016 No. 406

Environmental Protection

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016

Made 1st December 2016

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 6th December 2016

Coming into force 1st February 2017

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 153(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 19901and all other powers enabling them to do so.

S-1 Citation, commencement and extent

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st February 2017.

(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

S-2 Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

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

2. In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 19902(financial assistance for environmental purposes), after paragraph (z1)3add—

S-z2

“z2 any programme of measures to achieve, in relation to a body of water, environmental objectives of the kind that may be set in relation to that body of water under Part 1 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 20034or (as the case may be) schedule 1 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 20045.”.

R CUNNINGHAM

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st December 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to add any programme of measures to achieve, in relation to a body of water, environmental objectives of the kind that may be set under Part 1 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 or schedule 1 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004. This will enable the Scottish Ministers to give financial assistance for the purposes of any such programme of measures.


(1) 1990 c.43. The functions of the Secretary of State, in or as regards Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
(2) Section 153(1), in so far as it extends to Scotland, was relevantly varied by S.I. 1991/146; S.I. 1991/682; S.I. 1991/1179; S.I. 1992/654; S.I. 1993/1062; S.I. 1993/1518; S.I. 1995/150; S.I. 1995/554; S.I. 1995/1085; S.I. 1995/3099; S.I. 1996/505; S.I....

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