{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Thresholds for identification of projects in Wales not likely to have significant effects on the environment",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(3), and subject to regulations 6(3) and 7(6), a project in Wales of a type specified in an entry in Column 1 in the Table that is below the threshold (if any) specified in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project is to be treated as being not likely to have a significant effect on the environment.\n(2) This paragraph applies subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule.\nTABLE\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nType of project or part of project\nThreshold where any part of the land is in a sensitive area\nThreshold where no part of the land is in a sensitive area\nAfforestation\n2 hectares, where the sensitive area is a National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.\n5 hectares.\nNo threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.\nDeforestation\n0.5 hectare, where the sensitive area is a National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.\n1 hectare.\nNo threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.\nForest road works\nNo threshold.\n1 hectare.\nForest quarry works\nNo threshold.\n1 hectare.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(1) substituted (17.9.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 8(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2 heading inserted (W.) (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 24(5)(a) (with regs. 1(4), 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2 heading substituted (17.9.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 8(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 6.9.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2228/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
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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."
}