{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/592",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 15",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 15 (determination of applications) is amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph (3), insert—\n“(4) The appropriate forestry body shall—\n(a) determine the application, and\n(b) grant or refuse consent in respect of that application,\nwithin a period of time which is reasonable, taking into account the nature and complexity of the application.\n(5) The appropriate forestry body shall not grant or refuse consent under paragraph (1) unless they are satisfied that their determination under this regulation is up to date (and a determination is taken to be up to date if, in the opinion of the appropriate forestry body, it addresses the significant effects of the project on the environment).\n(6) For the purposes of determining the application, the appropriate forestry body shall ensure that they have, or have access as necessary to, sufficient expertise to examine the environmental statement.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/592/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:03.171982+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."
}