The Act consists of 125 sections divided into 5 Parts: The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (I); Contaminated Land and Abandoned Mines (II); National Parks (III); Air Quality (IV); Miscellaneous, General and Supplemental Provisions (V).The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency are established as a body corporate. The Environment Agency shall inherit functions of the various environment protection authorities including the National Rivers Authority and the London waste Authority, both abolished by this Act. (sect. 2).
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Library ResourceLegislationUnited Kingdom, Europe, Northern Europe
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Library ResourceLegislationBritish Virgin Islands, Americas, Caribbean
This Act provides rules for the development of the physical environment and land-use planning in general and provides for control on such development. It establishes the Planning Authority and an Appeals Tribunal and provides for the appointment by the Governor of a Chief Planner. The Authority shall submit to the Minister a National Physical Development Plan.
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Library ResourceLegislationJersey, Europe, Northern Europe
This Law provides for general town and country planning and provides rules relative to development in Jersey. It also provides for the protection of trees. The purpose of the Law is to conserve, protect and improve Jersey’s natural beauty, natural resources and general amenities, its character, and its physical and natural environments. An application for planning permission to carry out prescribed development under this Law shall be taken to include any environmental impact statement relating to the application prepared and provided in accordance with provisions of this Law.
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Library ResourceLegislationKenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
This Act provides rules relative to good agricultural practice and in particular rules for the use of agricultural land and aiming at its development and preservation. Furthermore, the Act provides for administrative instruments to ensure a sound agricultural development and the marketing of agricultural products.
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Library ResourceLegislationBurkina Faso, Africa, Western Africa
La présente Loi détermine l’orientation de la décentralisation, les compétences et moyens d’action, les organes et l’administration des collectivités territoriales (la région et la commune).Ces collectivités territoriales sont compétentes dans les domaines suivants: aménagement du territoire, gestion du domaine foncier et de l’aménagement urbain, environnement et gestion des ressources naturelles, développement économique et planification, santé et hygiène, eau, assainissement et sécurité alimentaire.
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Library ResourceLegislationEastern Europe, Europe, Northern Europe
The aim pursued by this Directive is the protection of the environment against the harmful effects caused by the discharge, treatment or deposit of waste oils. For the purposes of these provisions “waste oils” shall mean any liquid or semi-liquid used products totally or partially consisting of mineral or synthetic oil, including the oily residues from tanks, oil-water mixtures and emulsions. Member States must take all necessary measures to ensure the safe collection and disposal of waste oils.
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Library ResourceLegislationEastern Europe, Europe, Northern Europe
A high level of environmental protection and human health protection requires the setting and maintaining of stringent operational conditions, technical requirements and emission limit values for plants incinerating or coincinerating waste within the Community. The aim of this Directive is to prevent or reduce negative effects on the environment, particularly emissions into air, soil, surface water, as well as the resulting risks to human health which might arise from incineration and coincineration of waste.
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Library ResourceLegislationCanada, Americas, Northern America
A piece of basic legislation in the field of environmental management. The text consists of 179 sections divided into 12 Parts as follows: Introductory provisions (1); Prohibitions and authorizations (2); Municipal waste management (3); Contaminated site remediation (4); Remediation of mineral exploration sites and mines (5); Clean air provisions (6); Powers in relation to managing the environment (7); Appeals (8); Compliance (9); General (10); Transitional provisions and consequential amendments (11).
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Library ResourceLegislationTogo, Africa, Western Africa
La présente loi fixe le cadre juridique général de gestion de l’environnement au Togo.
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Library ResourceLegislationAustralia, Oceania
This Act provides for the protection and preservation of Aboriginal heritage in the territory of South Australia. For the purpose of administration of the Act, it establishes the Aboriginal Heritage Committee, the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Fund and regulates functions and powers of inspectors (Part 2). For what concerns the protection and preservation of aboriginal heritage, it regulates the search of Aboriginal sites and objects, their protection and management (Part 3). It contains provisions on the access to land by Aboriginal people (sect.
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