{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biodiversity-gain-site-register-regulations-2024/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biodiversity-gain-site-register-regulations-2024/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Biodiversity Gain Site Register Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biodiversity-gain-site-register-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duty to establish and maintain the biodiversity gain site register",
  "text": "(1) Natural England must establish a register of biodiversity gain sites in which land is to be registered and information recorded in accordance with these Regulations.\n(2) Natural England must maintain the register established under paragraph (1).\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the biodiversity gain site register” means the register maintained under this regulation;\n“the register operator” means Natural England.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 12.2.2024, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Natural England was established by section 1 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “biodiversity gain site”, see section 100(2) of the Environment Act 2021."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/45/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:02.043377+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}