New legislation published in November 2017 includes:

The Novel Foods (Scotland) Regulations 2017
These Regulations provide for the enforcement and execution of certain specified provisions of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 1169/201...

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2017
The 1971 Act controls drugs that are “dangerous or otherwise harmful”. Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act specifies these drugs and groups them in three categories – Part 1 lists drugs known...

The Novel Foods (Wales) Regulations 2017 / Rheoliadau Bwydydd Newydd (Cymru) 2017
These Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement in Wales of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 on novel foods (“the Novel Foods Regulation”). A novel food is a food or food ingredien...

The Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Harbours, Highways and Transport) Regulations 2017
These Regulations implement Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on ...

The Water Environment (Miscellaneous) (Scotland) Regulations 2017
These Regulations amend the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (“the Principal Regulations”) which provide a regulatory framework for controlling activit...

The Waste (Fees and Charges) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017
The Department is required to have in place a charging scheme to ensure that, so far as practicable, fees and charges payable for waste management licences under the Waste and Contaminated Land (North...

The Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 
These Regulations contain transitional provisions relating to the licensing of water abstraction by certain categories of persons, in the light of amendments made by the Water Act 2003 (c. 37) to the ...

The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017
These Regulations consolidate the Offshore Marine Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1842) with subsequent amending instruments, and make minor modifications reflecti...

The Water Abstraction (Specified Enactments) Regulations 2017
These Regulations specify enactments for the purposes of section 102(5)(b) of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37). Section 102(5)(b) provides that nothing in those specified enactments prevents the Environment...

The Water Abstraction and Impounding (Exemptions) Regulations 2017 
These Regulations provide for exemptions from the restriction on abstraction and the restriction on impounding works in the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57). The Regulations provide exemptions (su...

The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2017
This Order brings various provisions of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37) into force on 1st January 2018. Sections 5, 7, and 32 limit or remove certain exemptions from the restriction on abstracting wate...

The Environment Act 1995 (Commencement No. 25) Order 2017
This Order brings into force, on 1st January 2018, paragraph 2 of Schedule 21 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) for all remaining purposes. That paragraph substitutes section 222 of the Water Resour...

The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (England) Regulations 2017
These Regulations supplement provisions in Acts for fixed penalties payable in respect of offences relating to the environment. They replace the Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Miscellaneous...

The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017
These Regulations consolidate the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/490) with subsequent amending instruments, and make minor modifications reflecting changes to related...

The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2017
These Regulations bring into force certain provisions in Part 2 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) (“the Act”). Regulation 2(a) brings into force section 14(3) and (4) of the...