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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-48",
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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/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Authorisation and annex 1 and annex 2 applications",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to—\n(a) an annex 1 application; or\n(b) an annex 2 application where the proposed specific development shall be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue inter alia of its nature, size or location;\nexcept where it is exempt development.\n(2) The development corporation shall not carry out a specific development, nor shall they grant authorisation of a specific development to which this regulation applies, unless they have taken into consideration environmental information in respect of the proposed specific development.\n(3) Subject to any direction by the Secretary of State, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) a proposed specific development shall only be taken to be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue inter alia of its nature, size or location where the applicant and the development corporation accept that this is the case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2012",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2012",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/regulation/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:32.715746+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."
}