Environmental protection. A bill [as amended by Standing Committee H] 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 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 subtances; 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 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.

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Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Series:

1989/90 ; Bill 102.

[1989/90] ; Bill 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--History--20th century--Sources.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages: Table).

Other Title:

Environmental Protection Bill. As amended in Standing Committee H

20th century House of Commons sessional papers

Parliamentary papers

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [eng.] : Proquest LLC, 2007.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

Vol.(Volume not applicable), 196 pp.

Notes:

Title from back cover.

1 online resource (196 p.: Table).

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Microfilm. Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey [19842005] Fiche no. [Unknown].

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