Regulation 7 Provision of consultation draft to supporting authorities

A responsible authority must provide all supporting authorities for the local nature recovery strategy with the consultation draft of its local nature recovery strategy and request their comments.

But where a responsible authority has received a notice under regulation 20 (review), the responsible authority may not provide supporting authorities with its local nature recovery strategy under this regulation unless it has reviewed the local nature recovery strategy in accordance with that regulation.

A “consultation draft”, in relation to a local nature recovery strategy, is a local nature recovery strategy the responsible authority considers is ready to be consulted on under regulation 12.