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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2228",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FORESTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th August 1999\nLaid before Parliament 9th August 1999\nComing into force 6th September 1999\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 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, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 85/337/EEC as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC, hereby make the following Regulations:",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: power to amend or revoke conferred (26.12.2023) by Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 164(3), 255(5), Sch. 14 Pt. 1 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. The enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)."
    },
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      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40."
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      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L73, 14.3.97, p.5."
    }
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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."
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