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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biodiversity-gain-site-register-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/494",
  "legislation_title": "The Biodiversity Gain Site Register (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biodiversity-gain-site-register-amendment-regulations-2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Biodiversity Gain Site Register Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/45, “the 2024 Regulations”) which make provision for and in relation to a register of biodiversity gain sites (“the biodiversity gain site register”).\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 2 of the 2024 Regulations to include definitions for “biodiversity gain site”, “development” and “development consent”. The term “biodiversity gain site” is used in regulation 3 of the 2024 Regulations, and for the purposes of the 2024 Regulations the definition inserted by this instrument supersedes the definition contained in section 100 of the Environment Act 2021 (c. 30) under which section those Regulations were made.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 6 of the 2024 Regulations so that land where development consent has been granted under the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29) (“the 2008 Act”) is eligible for inclusion in the biodiversity gain site register.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 8 of the 2024 Regulations so that applications to register land in the biodiversity gain site register which involve allocation of any of the habitat enhancement from the works on that land can provide for such allocation to a development for which development consent has been granted under the 2008 Act.\nRegulations 6 and 7 amend regulations 12 and 13 of the 2024 Regulations to allow an application in respect of land which is already on the biodiversity gain site register to allocate habitat enhancement to a development for which development consent has been granted under the 2008 Act.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/494/note",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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