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| Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas Bill
This is the text of the Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 29th February 2000. | |||||||||
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B I L L TO Amend the Environmental Protection Act 1990 by extending powers to environmental health officers to intervene in neighbourly disputes involving hedgerows in residential areas; and for connected purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||
| Statutory nuisance. | 1. - (1) Section 79 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (statutory nuisances and inspections therefor) is amended as follows. | ||||||||
| (2) After paragraph (a) of subsection (1) there is inserted- | |||||||||
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| (3) After the definition of "private dwelling" in subsection (7) there is inserted- | |||||||||
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| Short title. | 2. This Act may be cited as the Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas Act 2000. | ||||||||
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| © Parliamentary copyright 2000 | Prepared 28 March 2000 |