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(1) This Order may be cited as the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 20) (Scotland) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015.
(2) In this Order “the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
(3) This Order extends to Scotland only.
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(1) 1st April 2015 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 162(2) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 16 to, the 1990 Act so far as relating to the following repeals:—
(a) the whole of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906 in so far as it has not already been repealed; and
(b) the definition of “the Alkali Act” in section 105(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974.
(2) 1st April 2015 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 162(2) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 16 to, the 1990 Act so far as relating to the following repeals—
(a) sections 3 to 10, 14, 18 and 27 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 in so far as they have not already been repealed;
(b) sections 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;
(c) in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1988—
(i) the words “in the application of this Part to England and Wales,” in sub-paragraph (1); and
(ii) sub-paragraph (4);
(d) paragraph 18 of Schedule 16 to the Electricity Act 1989;
(e) the words following “below” in section 34(3)(b) of the 1990 Act; and
(f) section 36(8) of the 1990 Act.
(3) 1st April 2015 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 162(2) of, and Part 8 of Schedule 16 to, the 1990 Act so far as relating to the repeal of sections 5(c), (d), (e)(iii) and 6(1)(a)(iii) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985.
AILEEN McLEOD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh

18th February 2015