Environment_Act_1995

Environment Act 1995
Act of 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.
Citation	1995 c. 25
Introduced by	John Gummer[citation needed]
Dates
Royal assent	19 July 1995
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

Environment Act 1995

United Kingdom legislation

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.

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