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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-pipe-line-works-assessment-of-environmental-effects-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/422",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-pipe-line-works-assessment-of-environmental-effects-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the 1990 Regulations” means the Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990.\n(3) In so far as they relate to applications under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 for consent to construct, extend or operate a generating station and to applications under section 37 of that Act for consent to install or keep installed an electric line above ground, these Regulations extend to England and Wales only.\n(4) In so far as they relate to applications in relation to pipe-lines to convey oil or gas these Regulations do not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/442."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/422/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:45.529885+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."
}