The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Good Agricultural Practice) (Wales) Order 2011
| Jurisdiction | Wales |
| Citation | SI 2011/1012 (W151) |
2011 No. 1012 (W.151)
AGRICULTURE, WALES
WATER RESOURCES, WALES
The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Good Agricultural Practice) (Wales) Order 2011
Made 29th March 2011
Coming into force 19th April 2011
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 97(1) of the Water Resources Act 19911and now vested in them2, make the following Order.
The Welsh Ministers have consulted the Environment Agency in accordance with section 97(3)3of that Act.
Title, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Good Agricultural Practice) (Wales) Order 2011.
(2) This Order comes into force on 19 April 2011.
(3) This Order applies in relation to Wales.
(4) In this Order, “the Code of Practice” means the Code of Good Agricultural Practice to protect water, soil and air quality which was issued by the Welsh Ministers on 30 March 20114.
Approval of the Code of Practice
2. The Welsh Ministers approve the Code of Practice in so far as the Code of Practice was issued for the purpose of—
(a) giving practical guidance to persons engaged in agriculture with respect to activities that may affect controlled waters5; and
(b) promoting what appears to the Welsh Ministers to be desirable practices by such persons for avoiding or minimising the pollution of any such waters.
Revocation
3. The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Wales) Order 19986is revoked in so far as it applies to Wales.
Elin Jones
Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers
29 March 2011
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order applies in relation to Wales. This Order approves, under section 97(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991, the Code of Good Agricultural Practice to protect water, soil and air quality which was issued by the Welsh Ministers on 30 March 2011 (“the Code of Practice”), in so far as the Code of Practice was issued for the purpose mentioned in Article 2.
The Code of Practice replaces, in relation to Wales, the separate Codes of Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Water, Air and Soil issued in relation to England and Wales by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Welsh Office Agricultural Department in October 1998.
This Order revokes, in so far as it applies in Wales, the Water (Prevention of...
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