LegalizeThe Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012
Made: 25th October 2012
Laid before Parliament: 29th October 2012
Coming into force: 1st April 2013
The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations[^f00001] in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 42(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012[^f00002].
Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 1st April 2013.
Pollution of the environment
2
The types of pollution of the environment that are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 42(1) (Environmental pollution) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are pollution of the air, water or land which causes harm to—
- (a) the health of human beings or other living organisms; or
- (b) the quality of the air, water or land.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
McNally — Minister of State — 25th October 2012
Ministry of Justice
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Paragraph 42(1) (Environmental pollution) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) makes available civil legal services provided in relation to injunctions in respect of nuisance arising from prescribed types of pollution of the environment. The Civil Legal Aid (Prescribed Types of Pollution of the Environment) Regulations 2012 prescribe the types of pollution of the environment for which civil legal services may be available under that paragraph.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: Section 42(1) provides that in Part 1 of the Act “regulations” means regulations made by the Lord Chancellor.
[^f00002]: 2012 c. 10.
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