The Environment Act 1995 provided for the establishment of various body corporates and the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities to those bodies. The body corporates established by the Act are:
The Act also made provision with respect to contaminated land, abandoned mines and National Parks as well as for the control of pollution and the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement of the
environment. Furthermore, the Act made provision for imposing obligations on certain persons with respect to certain
products or materials, made provision in relation to fisheries, made provision for certain
enactments to bind the Crown as well as made provision with respect to the application of certain enactments
in relation to the Isles of Scilly.
