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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infrastructure-planning-decisions-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111490266",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Planning (Decisions) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infrastructure-planning-decisions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Biological diversity",
  "text": "When deciding an application for development consent the Panel or Council must have regard to the United Nations Environmental Programme Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992 and where the application is for development in Scotland the decision-maker must also have regard to any strategy designated under section 2(1) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmd. 2915."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 asp. 6."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}