Short Title: | Environment Act 1995 |
Type: | Act |
Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Long Title: | 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. |
Year: | 1995 |
Citation: | 1995 c. 25 |
Introduced By: | John Gummer |
Royal Assent: | 19 July 1995 |
Original Text: | http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/contents/enacted |
Revised Text: | http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/contents |
The Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), passed under the ministerial tutelage of John Gummer, is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which created a number of new agencies and set new standards for environmental management.