Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 816 (C. 32)
countryside, england and wales
CANALS AND Inland Waterways
The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2007
Made
11th March 2007
The Secretary of State has consulted the Scottish Ministers, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland as required by subsections (5) and (8)(c) of section 107 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 ( 1 ).
He makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by that section:
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2007.
(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.
Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2007
2. The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1st April 2007—
(a) sections 73 to 77;
(b) Part 2 of Schedule 11;
(c) Schedule 12, so far as it has not already been commenced.
Provision coming into force on 10th May 2007
3. Section 61 of the Act, so far as it has not already been commenced, comes into force on 10 th May 2007.
Barry Gardiner
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
11th March 2007