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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-25",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Development by planning authority",
  "text": "(1) Before a planning authority take any action under regulation 4 of the 1981 Regulations, they shall consider whether, if the proposed development were the subject of an application for planning permission, it would be an application to which regulation 6 applies and shall consult such of the authorities, bodies or persons mentioned in Schedule 4 as they consider appropriate.\n(2) Any consultation under paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by—\n(a) a plan sufficient to identify the land on which the proposed development would be carried out; and\n(b) a brief description of the nature and purpose of the proposed development and of its possible effects on the environment.\n(3) Subject to any direction by the Secretary of State, where the planning authority consider that their proposed development would be an application to which regulation 6 applies, they shall prepare an environmental statement in respect of the proposed development.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1870",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1870",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/regulation/25",
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  },
  "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."
}