{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-england-no2-regulations-2006/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-england-no2-regulations-2006/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2522",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No.2) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-england-no2-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to any restructuring project or uncultivated land project, unless it is exempt under paragraph (2) or regulation 3A or 3B.\n(2) A restructuring project or an uncultivated land project is exempt if it—\n(a) is a project mentioned in regulation 3(2) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999;\n(b) constitutes development to which the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 apply;\n(c) constitutes the carrying out of improvement works by a drainage body within the meaning of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999;\n(d) constitutes a relevant project under regulation 3(2) and (3) of the Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003; or\n(e) constitutes the removal of a hedgerow under regulation 5(1) of the Hedgerows Regulations 1997; ...\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/593), regs. 1(1), 4(2) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) substituted (24.8.2011) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1824), reg. 1(1), Sch. 6 para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2)(d) inserted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/593), regs. 1(1), 4(3) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2)(e) omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/593), regs. 1(1), 4(4) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(f) omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/593), regs. 1(1), 4(5) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)-(5) omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/593), regs. 1(1), 4(5) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) modified (30.10.2026) by The Green Hill Solar Farm Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/1074), arts. 1, 6(4) (with Sch. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 10.10.2006, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2228."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1783, amended by section 73(2) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) and by S.I. 2005/1399 and 2006/618."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/164."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1160."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2522/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:34:29.177719+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."
}