Regulation 3 Supporting authorities

(1)

In these Regulations, a supporting authority for a local nature recovery strategy is—

(a)

where the strategy area^f1 wholly or partly includes the area to which the authority relates, an authority listed in section 105(2)(a) to (e) of the Environment Act 2021; and

(b)

Natural England.

(2)

But a responsible authority^f2 is not a supporting authority for its own local nature recovery strategy.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 105(1) of the Environment Act 2021.
f2: See 105(2) of the Environment Act 2021 for the meaning of section “responsible authority”.