{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-15.json",
  "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": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Determination of applications",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made to the appropriate forestry body for consent, they may, subject to the following provisions of this regulation—\n(a) grant consent either subject only to the conditions required by regulation 18 or also subject to such further conditions as they see fit, or\n(b) refuse consent.\n(2) The appropriate forestry body shall not determine an application until after the expiry of the periods referred to in regulation 13 during which representations may be sent to the appropriate forestry body or any period of consultation with an EEA State in accordance with regulation 14.\n(3) In determining an application, the appropriate forestry body shall take into consideration the environmental information, any representations received by them in relation to the application and any other material consideration, including in particular their assessment of the direct and indirect effects of the relevant project on the environmental factors specified in Schedule 4.\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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in regs. 9-15 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 103 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 15(4)-(6) inserted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 16(2) (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 6.9.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2228/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:54.913902+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."
}