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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/421",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Type and characteristics of the potential impact",
  "text": "The likely significant effects of projects on the environment must be considered in relation to criteria set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this schedule, with regard to the impact of the project on the factors specified in regulation 9(3), taking into account:—\n(a) the magnitude and spatial extent of the impact (for example geographical area and size of the population likely to be affected);\n(b) the nature of the impact;\n(c) the transboundary nature of the impact;\n(d) the intensity and complexity of the impact;\n(e) the probability of the impact;\n(f) the expected onset, duration, frequency and reversibility of the impact;\n(g) the cumulation of the impact with the impact of other existing and/or approved projects;\n(h) the possibility of effectively reducing the impact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (25.9.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/198), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with reg. 20)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/421/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
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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."
}