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Environmental Protection Act 1990

An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes; to re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste on land with modifications as respects the functions of the regulatory and other authorities concerned in the collection and disposal of waste and to make further provision in relation to such waste; to restate the law defining statutory nuisances and improve the summary procedures for dealing with them, to provide for the termination of the existing controls over offensive trades or businesses and to provide for the extension of the Clean Air Acts to prescribed gases; to amend the law relating to litter and make further provision imposing or conferring powers to impose duties to keep public places clear of litter and clean; to make provision conferring powers in relation to trolleys abandoned on land in the open air; to amend the Radioactive Substances Act 1960; to make provision for the control of genetically modified organisms; to make provision for the abolition of the Nature Conservancy Council and for the creation of councils to replace it and discharge the functions of that Council and, as respects Wales, of the Countryside Commission; to make further provision for the control of the importation, exportation, use, supply or storage of prescribed substances and articles and the importation or exportation of prescribed descriptions of waste; to confer powers to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances; to amend the law relating to the control of hazardous substances on, over or under land; to amend section 107(6) of the Water Act 1989 and sections 31(7)(a), 31A(2)(c)(i) and 32(7)(a) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974; to amend the provisions of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 as regards the dumping of waste at sea; to make further provision as respects the prevention of oil pollution from ships; to make provision for and in connection with the identification and control of dogs; to confer powers to control the burning of crop residues; to make provision in relation to financial or other assistance for purposes connected with the environment; to make provision as respects superannuation of employees of the Groundwork Foundation and for remunerating the chairman of the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council; and for purposes connected with those purposes.

1990-11-01

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Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 30(4A)

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s. 57(2)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 33ZB(10A)

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s. 69(3)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 34ZB(8A)

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s. 69(5)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 45A-45AZG

Environment Act 2021

s. 57(4)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 46(2)(a)

(b)

Environment Act 2021

s. 57(5)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 161(2AA)

(2AB)

Environment (Wales) Act 2016

Deddf yr Amgylchedd (Cymru) 2016

s. 69(4)

s. 88(3)(b)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 106A

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s. 41(2)

s. 46

s. 48(4)

SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 5 . . .

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Sch. 5 repealed (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 50, 51(2), Sch. 6 Pt.I (with ss. 42, 46)

Part I Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments

Public access to certain information

15

After section 13 (offences) of the 1960 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

13A Public access to local authority records relating to documents issued under this Act.
1
The chief inspector shall keep copies of—
a
all applications made to him under any provision of this Act;
b
all documents issued by him under any provision of this Act;
c
all other documents sent by him to any local authority in pursuance of directions of the Secretary of State; and
d
such records of convictions under section thirteen of this Act as may be prescribed in regulations;
and he shall make copies of those documents available to the public except to the extent that that would involve the disclosure of information relating to any relevant process or trade secret (within the meaning of subsection (3) of section thirteen of this Act) or would involve the disclosure of applications or certificates as respects which the Secretary of State has directed that knowledge should be restricted on grounds of national security.
2
Each local authority shall keep and make available to the public copies of all documents sent to the authority under any provision of this Act unless directed by the chief inspector or, as the case may be, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the chief inspector, that all or any part of any such document is not to be available for inspection.
3
Directions under the preceding subsection shall only be given for the purpose of preventing disclosure of relevant processes or trade secrets (within the meaning of subsection (3) of section thirteen of this Act) and may be given generally in respect of all, or any description of, documents or in respect of specific documents.
4
The copies of documents required to be made available to the public by this section need not be kept in documentary form.
5
The public shall have the right to inspect the copies of documents required to be made available under this section at all reasonable times and, on payment of a reasonable fee, to be provided with a copy of any such document.