Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 No 156
Current version for 11 January 2013 to date (accessed 18 May 2013 at 19:38)

30   Implementing PEPs—action by public authorities

(1)  A policy must be taken into consideration by a public authority when exercising statutory or other functions, if the public authority is required to do so by that or another policy.
(2)  Such a requirement can be made as regards:
(a)  a specified public authority, or a specified class of public authorities, or public authorities generally, and
(b)  a specified function, or a specified class of functions, or functions generally.
(3)  This section does not limit the other provisions of this Part.
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