Environment Act 1995 : Chapter 25.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
[1995]
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Credit: Environment Act 1995 : Chapter 25. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b) any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is for the time being a party, as those provisions have effect in relation to a direction given under subsection (2) above. (5) In determining— (a) any appeal against, or reference or review of, a decision of a new Agency, or (b) any application transmitted from a new Agency, the body or person making the determination shall be bound by any direction given under this section or any other enactment by a Minister of the Crown to the new Agency to the same extent as the new Agency. (6) Any power to give a direction under this section shall be exercisable, except in an emergency, only after consultation with the new Agency concerned. (7) Any power of the appropriate Minister to give directions to a new Agency otherwise than by virtue of this section shall be without prejudice to any power to give directions conferred by this section. (8) It is the duty of a new Agency to comply with any direction which is given to that new Agency by a Minister of the Crown under this section or any other enactment. Charging schemes 41.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section and section 42 below— (a) in the case of any particular licence under Chapter II of Part II of the 1991 Act (abstraction and impounding), the Agency may require the payment to it of such charges as may from time to time be prescribed; (b) in relation to other environmental licences, there shall be charged by and paid to a new Agency such charges as may from time to time be prescribed; and (c) as a means of recovering costs incurred by it in performing functions conferred by regulations under section 62 of the 1990 Act (dangerous or intractable waste) each of the new Agencies may require the payment to it of such charges as may from time to time be prescribed; and in this section “prescribed” means specified in, or determined under, a scheme (in this section referred to as a “charging scheme”) made under this section by the new Agency in question. (2) As respects environmental licences, charges may be prescribed in respect of— (a) the grant or variation of an environmental licence, or any application for, or for a variation of, such a licence; (b) the subsistence of an environmental licence; (c) the transfer (where permitted) of an environmental licence to another person, or any application for such a transfer; (d) the renewal (where permitted) of an environmental licence, or any application for such a renewal; ParRT I CHAPTER III Power to make schemes imposing charges.
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