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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-works-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/101",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-works-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition on granting consent without an environmental impact assessment",
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers must not—\n(a) grant an Electricity Act consent for EIA development; or\n(b) direct that planning permission is deemed to be granted under section 57(2) or (2ZA) of the 1997 Act in respect of EIA development,\nunless an environmental impact assessment has been carried out in respect of that development and in carrying out such assessment the Scottish Ministers must take the environmental information into account.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/101/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:20.488734+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."
}