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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/368",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision for implementing Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna (“the Habitats Directive”) and certain aspects of Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds (“the Wild Birds Directive”).\nRegulation 4 substitutes regulation 3 of the principal regulations, to provide that public bodies must exercise their functions so as to comply with the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives.\nRegulation 4 also inserts regulation 3A of the principal regulations, which imposes duties on public bodies in relation to wild bird habitat and regulation 3B which requires the Department of the Environment to periodically review whether the obligations under regulation 3A have been met. Regulation 4 also requires the Department of the Environment to provide guidance to relevant public bodies to assist them to met their obligations under regulation 3A.\nRegulations 7 and 8 clarify the interpretation of Part IV of the principal regulations and provides that the assessment and review procedures of that Part apply in relation to plans and projects not specifically mentioned in that Part. Regulations 9 to 15 are consequential amendments.\nRegulation 16 inserts regulation 74A of the principal regulations, concerning research and scientific work for the purposes of the Habitats and the Wild Birds Directives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No L206,22.7.1992, p.7, last amended by Council Directive 2006/105/EC (OJ No L363, 20.12.2006, p.368)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No L20, 26.1.2010, p.7. This instrument codifies, with minor amendments, Council Directive 1979/409/EEC as amended."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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