WHO reform processes, including the transformation agenda, and implementation of United Nations development system reform: report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Seventy-second World Health Assembly
Section 1 of the Badgers Act 1973 shall be amended as follows—
before “If”, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “(1)”;
before subsection (2) there shall be inserted—.
Section 2 of the Badgers Act 1973 (digging for badgers etc.) shall be amended as follows—
before “If” there shall be inserted “(1)”;
at the end there shall be added—.
Section 28 of the principal Act (notification of areas of special scientific interest) shall be amended as follows.
For subsection (2) (preliminary notices) there shall be substituted—.
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After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—.
In subsection (5) (restrictions on carrying out operations specified in notification)—
after “shall not” there shall be inserted “while the notification remains in force”;
in paragraph (a) (notice by owner or occupier of proposed operations), for “after the commencement date” there shall be substituted “after service on him of the notification”.
In subsection (6)(c) (which specifies as one of the conditions referred to in subsection (5)(b) that three months have expired from the giving of the notice under subsection (5)), for “three months” there shall be substituted “four months”.
After subsection (6) there shall be inserted—.
For subsection (12) there shall be substituted—.
Subsection (14) (disapplication of subsection (2) in certain cases) shall be omitted.
The amendments made by subsections (2) to (4) and (9) above shall not apply in relation to—
notifications under subsection (1) of the said section 28 given before the commencement of this Act;
any such notification given after the commencement of this Act which was preceded by a notice under subsection (2) of that section (as originally enacted) given during the six months immediately preceding that commencement; or
any such notification given after the commencement of this Act which, by virtue of subsection (13) of that section, has effect as if given under subsection (1)(a) of that section.
The amendments made by subsections (5) to (7) above shall apply in relation to all notices under subsection (5) of the said section 28 given after the commencement of this Act, whether the land in question was notified under subsection (1)(b) before or after that commencement.
Section 43 of the principal Act (maps of National Parks showing certain areas of moor or heath) shall be amended as follows.
In subsection (1)(a)—
for “the commencement date” there shall be substituted “the relevant date”;
for the words from “of moor” to “which” there shall be substituted “to which this section applies whose natural beauty”.
In subsection (1)(b), for the words from “at” to “year),” there shall be substituted “at intervals of not more than five years”.
After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—.
After subsection (2) there shall be added—.
In section 1 of the Forestry Act 1967 (general duties of Forestry Commissioners), after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—.
This Act may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1985.
In this Act references to the principal Act are references to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.