{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chief-forester-qualifications-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2019/92",
  "legislation_title": "The Chief Forester (Qualifications) (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chief-forester-qualifications-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Qualifications required to be chief forester",
  "text": "(1) A person is qualified to be the chief forester if that person—\n(a) is a Chartered Forester or Chartered Arboriculturist, or\n(b) possesses one of the following qualifications in a forestry or arboriculture subject—\n(i) a bachelor of science degree (with honours),\n(ii) an integrated master’s degree,\n(iii) a master of science degree,\n(iv) a doctoral degree.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n“Chartered Arboriculturist” means a member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters qualified as a chartered arboriculturist,\n“Chartered Forester” means a member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters qualified as a chartered forester,\n“degree” means a degree which is awarded by a university or other institution specified as competent to grant such a degree under section 76 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 or section 48 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992,\n“forestry or arboriculture subject” includes agroforestry, woodland ecology and woodland management.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.13. Section 76 was relevantly amended by section 19 of the Further Education and Training Act 2007 (c.25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/92/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:31.761978+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."
}