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2003 No. 2512

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND

The Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

  Made 29th September 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 30th September 2003 
  Coming into force 31st October 2003 

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 - 

in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 140[4] of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, 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 2003 and shall come into force on 31st October 2003.

Amendment
    
2.  - (1) Schedule 1 to the Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (England) Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows.

    (2) Delete the following entries - 

Avon Valley 9/8/1985 SP066476

River Derwent And Tributaries 11/9/1997 NY159239

Stanford Training Area 23/8/1985 TL866945

The New Forest 28/2/1996 SU224075

    (3) After the entry in relation to "Turnford And Cheshunt Pits" insert the following entry - 

Tweed Estuary 1/3/1988 NT993531


Ben Bradshaw
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

29th September 2003



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations 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 - 

These Regulations remove from Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations the following sites of special scientific interest: Avon Valley, River Derwent And Tributaries, Stanford Training Area and The New Forest. They add to Schedule 1 the Tweed Estuary.

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, Schedules 1 and 2 to which were amended by S.I. 2002/2102.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



ISBN 0 11 047779 0


  Prepared 15 October 2003


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