37 Incidental general functions
Environment Act 1995 (1995 c 25) | Legislation

Chapter III
Miscellaneous, General and Supplemental Provisions Relating to the New Agencies [and the Natural Resources Body for Wales]

Additional general powers and duties

37  Incidental general functions

(1)     Each new Agency (that is to say, in this Part, the Agency or SEPA)—

(a)     may do anything which, in its opinion, is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the carrying out of functions; and

(b)     without prejudice to the generality of that power, may, for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of those functions, acquire and dispose of land and other property and carry out such engineering or building operations as it considers appropriate;

and the Agency may institute criminal proceedings in England and Wales.

(2)     It shall be the

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