SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 Minor and consequential amendments

Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)

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1

Section 42 of the Environment Act 1995 (approval of charging schemes) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (3)(b)—

a

in sub-paragraph (i) for the words “Minister” and “his” there shall be substituted respectively the words “ Food Standards Agency ” and “ its ”; and

b

sub-paragraph (ii) shall be omitted.

3

In subsection (4)—

a

for the words “Minister’s or the Secretary of State’s” there shall be substituted the words “ Food Standards Agency’s ”;

b

in paragraph (b), for the words from “the Minister” to “be” there shall be substituted the words “ or the Food Standards Agency ”.

4

In subsection (7), the words from “and, if” to the end shall cease to have effect.

5

In subsection (9)—

a

for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “ such of the costs and expenses incurred by the Food Standards Agency as fall within subsection (3) above ”; and

b

for the words from “to the Secretary” to the end there shall be substituted the words “ to the Food Standards Agency ”.

6

In subsection (10), for the words from “paragraph (a) or” to the end there shall be substituted the words “ that subsection shall be determined by the Secretary of State. ”