{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/565",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Offence of carrying out a project without a decision under these Regulations",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence to commence or carry out a project on semi-natural and/or uncultivated land, or a restructuring project, in breach of regulation 4 or 8.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(3) In any proceedings under this regulation which relate to a project on semi-natural and/or uncultivated land, any area of land which the prosecution alleges to be uncultivated or semi-natural land will be assumed to be uncultivated or semi-natural land, in which case the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the land is uncultivated or semi-natural land.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 16.5.2017, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/565/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:36.212209+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."
}