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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-planning-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2018/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-planning-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "text": "(1) The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 20, before paragraph (1), insert—\n“(A1) Where a responsible operator has received a notice from the enforcing authority under regulation 18, it must without delay identify potential remedial measures in accordance with Schedule 4 and submit them in writing to the enforcing authority for its approval.”\n(3) In Schedule 1, for paragraph 5 substitute—\n“5. (1) Damage to a protected species or natural habitat and damage to a site of special scientific interest does not include damage caused by an act expressly authorised by the relevant authorities in accordance with—\n(a) the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994;\n(b) the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001;\n(c) the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010;\n(d) the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017;\n(e) the Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.\n(2) Damage to sites of special scientific interest does not include, in the case of a site that is not a European site damage caused by an act expressly authorised by the relevant authorities in accordance with Part 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “European site” has the same meaning as in regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 17.12.2018, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/995 (W. 81), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994/2716 amended by paragraph 233(1) of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25); S.I. 1996/525; 1997/3055; 2000/192 and 1973; 2003/2155; 2005/3389; 2006/1282; 2007/1843 and 3538; 2008/2172; 2009/6, 1307, 2438 and 3160; and paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 11 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23); and revoked (in relation to England and Wales) by S.I. 2010/490."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1754, amended by S.I. 2007/77 and 1842; and 2010/1513."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/490."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/1012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/1013."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/1216/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:27.942045+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."
}