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Overview / Significance |
"An
Act to provide for the establishment of a body corporate to be known as
the Environment Agency and a body corporate to be known as the Scottish
Environment Protection Agency; to provide for the transfer of functions,
property, rights and liabilities to those bodies and for the conferring of
other functions on them; to make provision with respect to contaminated
land and abandoned mines; to make further provision in relation to
National Parks; to make further provision for the control of pollution,
the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement
of the environment; to make provision for imposing obligations on certain
persons in respect of certain products or materials; to make provision in
relation to fisheries; to make provision for certain enactments to bind
the Crown; to make provision with respect to the application of certain
enactments in relation to the Isles of Scilly; and for connected purposes."
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