Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/schedule/2/part/I
Timestamp: 2020-08-07 05:12:36
Document Index: 755060929

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 2', 'art. 5', 'art.3']

Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part I is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 07 August 2020. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F1Part I]E+W+S Transition to Companies
[F2Preliminary]E+W+S
[F3In this Part of this Schedule—
F3Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3 (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2 (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F4Notice of direction]E+W+S
F4Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3 (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2 (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
2[F5(1)The Secretary of State, before giving any directions to any authority or constituent authority, shall give notice of his intention to do so to that authority.E+W+S
F5Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g)(k) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(a)(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F6Applications for exemption from and representations about directions]E+W+S
F6Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g)(k) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(a)(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
3[F7(1)An authority which has been given notice under paragraph 2 above of a proposed direction may, within the period specified in the notice, make to the Secretary of State either an application under sub-paragraph (2) below or representations under sub-paragraph (3) below.E+W+S
F7Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g)(k) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(a)(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F8Directions]E+W+S
F8Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g)(k) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(a)(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
4[F9(1)A direction may require the authority or authorities to whom it is given to form or participate in forming one or more than one company or to form or participate in forming one or more than one joint company and it shall specify the date before which the company or companies is or are to be formed.E+W+S
[F10Formation and status of companies]E+W+S
5[F11(1)An authority which has been directed to form a company shall do so by forming it under the M2Companies Act 1985 as a company which—E+W+S
(2)The authority shall so exercise its control of the company as to secure that, at some time before the vesting date, the conditions specified in section 68(6)(a) to (h) of the M3Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (conditions for “arm’s length companies”) apply in relation to the company and shall, at some time before the vesting date, resolve that the company shall be an arm’s length company for the purposes of Part V of that Act.
[F12Transfer schemes]E+W+S
F12Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
6[F13(1)Where an authority has formed a company or companies in pursuance of a direction, the authority shall, before such date as the Secretary of State may specify in a direction given to the authority under this sub-paragraph, submit to the Secretary of State a scheme providing for the transfer to the company or companies of any property, rights or liabilities of that or that and any other authority, or of any subsidiary of its or theirs, which appear to be appropriate to transfer as representing the relevant part of the undertaking of that authority or of that authority and the other authorities.E+W+S
F13Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F14Transfer schemes: supplementary provisions]E+W+S
F14Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F15A scheme under paragraph 6 above may define the property, rights and liabilities to be transferred by the scheme—
F15Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
8[F16(1)The provisions of this paragraph apply to the transfer to a company of the property, rights and liabilities representing the relevant part of an authority’s undertaking.E+W+S
F16Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
[F17Tax and company provisions]E+W+S
F17Sch. 2 repealed (E.W.) (18.10.2005 for E. and 16.3.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 47, 107, 108, Sch. 5 Pt. 4; S.I. 2005/2896, art. 3(g) (with art. 6 (as amended by S.I. 2006/1002)); S.I. 2006/768, art. 2(d) (with art. 5 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2797))
9[F18(1)Any shares in a company which are issued as a consequence of the vesting by a transfer scheme of property, rights and liabilities in the company shall—E+W+S
(b)treated for the purposes of the application of the M4Companies Act 1985 in relation to that company as if they had been paid up by virtue of the payment to the company of their nominal value in cash.
(2)For the purposes of Chapter I of Part II of the M5Capital Allowances Act 1990 (capital allowance in respect of machinery and plant) property which is vested in a company by virtue of a transfer scheme shall be treated as if—
M51990 c. 1.
[F19Benefit of certain planning permission]E+W+S
10[F20(1)This paragraph applies in relation to planning permission deemed to have been granted to the authority under regulation 4 of the M6Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1976 (deemed planning permission for development by local authorities) which subsists at the vesting date.E+W+S
M6S.I.1976/1419.
[F21Right to production of documents of title]E+W+S
[F22Where on any transfer by virtue of a transfer scheme the authority is entitled to retain possession of any documents relating to the title to, or to the management of, any land or other property transferred to the company, the authority shall be deemed to have given to the company an acknowledgement in writing of the right of the company to production of that document and to delivery of copies thereof; and, in England and Wales, section 64 of the M7Law of Property Act 1925 shall have effect accordingly, and on the basis that the acknowledgement did not contain any such expression of contrary intention as is mentioned in that section.]
[F23 Proof of title by certificate]E+W+S
12[F24(1)A joint certificate by or on behalf of the authority and the company that any property specified in the certificate, or any such interest in or right over any such property as may be specified in the certificate, is by virtue of the transfer scheme for the time being vested in the authority or in the company shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes of that fact.E+W+S
[F25Construction of agreements]E+W+S
[F26Where any of the rights or liabilities transferred by a transfer scheme are rights or liabilities under an agreement to which the authority was a party immediately before the vesting date, whether in writing or not, and whether or not of such a nature that rights and liabilities thereunder could be assigned by the authority, that agreement shall have effect on and after the vesting date as if—
[F27Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of paragraph 13 above, the company and any other person shall, as from the vesting date, have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular the same rights and powers as to the taking or resisting of legal proceedings or the making or resisting of applications to any authority) for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing any right or liability transferred to and vested in the company by a transfer scheme as he would have had if that right or liability had at all times been a right or liability of the company, and any legal proceedings or applications to any authority pending on the vesting date by or against the authority, in so far as they relate to any property, right or liability transferred to the company by the scheme, or to any agreement to any such property, right or liability, shall be continued by or against the company to the exclusion of the authority.]
[F28Third parties affected by vesting provisions]E+W+S
15[F29(1)Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs 13 and 14 above, any transaction effected between the authority and the company in pursuance of paragraph 8(4) above or of a direction under paragraph 8(6) above shall be binding on all other persons, and notwithstanding that it would, apart from this sub-paragraph, have required the consent or concurrence of any other person.E+W+S
[F30Transfer of staff]E+W+S
16[F31(1)The M8Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 shall apply in relation to the relevant employees of an authority in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) below.E+W+S
M8S.I.1981/1794
[F32Information for purposes of transfer scheme]E+W+S
17[F33(1)The Secretary of State may, by directions, prescribe descriptions of information which are to be furnished for purposes connected with the transfer by authorities to companies of the relevant part of the undertakings of authorities.E+W+S
(2)It shall be the duty of F34. . . a waste disposal authority, on being requested to do so by a written notice served on it by the Secretary of State, to furnish to the Secretary of State such information of a description prescribed under sub-paragraph (1) above as may be specified in the notice.]
F34Words in Sch. 2 para. 17(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 94, Sch.24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art.3.