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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/810",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Express authorisation",
  "text": "(1) Damage to a protected site or natural habitat and damage to a site of special scientific interest do 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 Offshore Marine Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 2007;\n(d) the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010;\n(e) the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017;\n(f) 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+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 substituted (1.4.2018) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1177), regs. 1, 7 (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(3) substituted (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), art. 1(2), reg. 11(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/810/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:16.691519+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."
}