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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-amendment-no2-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1937",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-amendment-no2-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 (Damage to protected species, natural habitats and sites of special scientific interest), for paragraph 5 substitute—\n“Express authorisation\n5. 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 Part 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/490, amended by S.I. 2011/603, 2011/625, 2012/630, 2012/635, 2012/ 637, 2012/1927, 2013/755 (W. 90) and S.I. 2015/377."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1937/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:16.005065+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."
}