{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restriction on relevant projects",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 4A and 4B, no person shall carry out, on any land, work or operations relating to a relevant project unless—\n(a) consent has been granted for that project by the appropriate forestry body or by the appropriate Authority, and\n(b) the project is carried out in accordance with the consent (including the conditions to which the consent is subject).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 7(2) (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 101(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2)-(5) omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 7(3) (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}