{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-c-amendment-no-2-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/425",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-c-amendment-no-2-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Regulation 40",
  "text": "In regulation 40 (exceptions to regulation 39) at the end insert–\n“(4) The exceptions to regulation 39 in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply where it is shown that–\n(a) there was a satisfactory alternative to what was done; or\n(b) what was done was detrimental to the maintenance of the populations of the species concerned at a favourable conservation status in their natural range.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 40 was substituted by S.S.I. 2007/80, regulation 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/425/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:02.642030+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."
}