{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-c-regulations-1994/regulation-111",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-c-regulations-1994/regulation-111.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2716",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-c-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/111",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "111",
  "heading": "Research",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must take such steps to encourage research and scientific work as they consider necessary—\n(a) having regard to the objectives in Article 2, and the obligation in Article 11, of the Habitats Directive; and\n(b) for the purpose of the protection or management, and in relation to the use, of any population of wild bird.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In deciding what steps to take under paragraph (1), the Scottish Ministers must have particular regard to the need for research and scientific work—\n(a) on the subjects listed in Annex V to the Wild Birds Directive; or\n(b) which may be required to implement Articles 4 and 10 of the Habitats Directive.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 111 inserted (S.) (16.8.2012) by The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/228), regs. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 111(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/113), regs. 1, 24; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2716/regulation/111",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:24:19.405866+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."
}