
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st February 2017.
(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.
2 
In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (financial assistance for environmental purposes), after paragraph (z1) add—“
(z2) any programme of measures to achieve, in relation to a body of water, environmental objectives of the kind that may be set in relation to that body of water under Part 1 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 or (as the case may be) schedule 1 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004.”.
R CUNNINGHAM
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
1st December 2016