Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2102

      The Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2002 No. 2102

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND

The Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

  Made 8th August 2002  
  Laid before Parliament 9th August 2002  
  Coming into force 1st September 2002  

Whereas the Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) Regulations 1999[1] ("the principal Regulations") prohibit the use of lead shot (as defined in those Regulations) for the purpose of shooting with a shot gun certain birds or in certain circumstances;

Now therefore the Secretary of State - 

    (a) having, in accordance with section 140(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990[2] - 

      (i) consulted the committee established[3] under section 140(5) of that Act;

      (ii) published a notice in the London Gazette; and

      (iii) considered the representations made to her in accordance with that notice; and

    (b) considering it appropriate to make these Regulations for the purpose of preventing the substance or articles specified in the principal regulations (namely lead shot) from causing pollution of the environment and harm to the health of animals;

in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 140[4] of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st September 2002.

Amendment
     2.  - (1) The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.

    (2) For Schedule 1 substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

    (3) In Schedule 2 delete the following entries:

"Plover, Golden Pluvialis apricaria"
"Snipe, Common Gallinago gallinago"


Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

8th August 2002



SCHEDULE
regulation 2(2)


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations, which apply to England only, amend the Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) Regulations 1999 ("the 1999 Regulations") which apply in relation to England only. The 1999 Regulations prohibit the use of lead shot for shooting with a shot gun - 

    (a) on or over any area below the high-water mark;

    (b) on or over the sites of special scientific interest included in Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations;

    (c) any wild bird included in Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations.

Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations substitutes a new Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations, providing a revised list of sites of special scientific interest to which the prohibition on the use of lead shot applies.

Regulation 2(3) removes golden plover and common snipe from Schedule 2 of the 1999 Regulations.

Details of the area covered by the sites of special scientific interest listed in the amended Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations can be obtained from English Nature at Northminster House, City Road, Peterborough, PE1 1UA.

No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.

Notes:

[1] S.I. 1999/2170.back

[2] 1990 c. 43.back

[3] S.I. 1991/1487, which established the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances.back

[4] Section 140(3)(c) was amended by S.I. 1999/1108.back


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