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Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

S.R. 2007/355 · Made 9 August 2007

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Forestry

Made 9th August 2007

Coming into operation 6th September 2007

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Developmentf1, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I.1988/785

f2

1972 C.68 Section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I.3) and S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I.. 15)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the principal Regulations
  3. 3Revocation
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 6th September 2007.

2Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 18(10) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006f1 for “the statutory maximum” there shall be substituted “level 5 on the standard scale”.

3Revocation

The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 are revoked.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 9th August 2007

L.S.

David Small

A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct an error in the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R.2006 No.518) (″the 2006 Regulations″). Regulation 18(10) of those Regulations provides for the penalty for a summary offence (failure to obey a summons). That penalty is described as a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum. The appropriate maximum penalty for such offences is level 5 on the standard scale. These Regulations amend the provision accordingly. The Regulations also revoke the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 which amended Regulations revoked by the 2006 Regulations.