Environmental Protection Act 1990 : chapter 43.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1990], ©1990
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Environmental Protection Act 1990 : chapter 43. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    236/248 (page 226)
    LOTS .Cs5: 1982 c. 43. (6) Except as provided by regulations made under this subsection, nothing in this Part of this Act applies to radioactive waste within the meaning of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960; but regulations may— (a) provide for prescribed provisions of this Part of this Act to have effect with such modifications as the Secretary of State considers appropriate for the purposes of dealing with such radioactive waste; (b) make such modifications of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 and any other Act as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with regulations made under paragraph (a) above.” Statutory nuisances 18. In Section 33(2) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (restriction on deposit of spoil), for the words “Part III of the Public Health Act 1936” there shall be substituted the words “‘Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990”. Refuse Disposal: Scotland 19.—(1) Section 1 of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978 (provision by waste disposal authorities of places etc. for disposal of refuse) shall be amended in relation to Scotland as follows. (2) In subsection (1) at the end there shall be inserted the words “‘and to dispose of refuse so deposited”’. (3) In subsection (6) for the words from ‘‘mandamus” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “‘by proceedings under section 45 of the Court of Session Act 1988”. (4) In subsection (7) the definition of “local authority” and the word “and” which follows it shall be omitted. Street cleansing: Scotland 20. In section 25 of the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982, for subsection (3) there shall be substituted— (3) In subsection (2) above “‘cleansing’”’ means such cleansing as appears to the islands or as the case may be district council to be necessary in the interests of public health or safety or of the amenities of their area but does not include operations for the removal of snow or ice and “relevant land” means any land, in the open air, to which members of the public have access and which is not comprehended in a public road within the meaning of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.”’. Byelaws relating to straw or stubble burning 21. Section 43 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (creation by byelaws of offences relating to burning of straw or stubble) shall cease to have effect. Functions assignable to London port health authority 22. In section 7(4) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (enactments functions under which are assignable to London port health authority), after the paragraph (k) inserted by paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to the Building Act 1984, there shall be inserted the following paragraphs— “(1) Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990; (m) Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;’’.