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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/84",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Thresholds",
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 3, for the purposes of regulation 3(3), the threshold for any project of a type specified in an entry in Column 1 in the Table is the area (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project.\nTABLE\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nType 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 an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.\n5 hectares\nDeforestation\n0.5 hectares where the sensitive area is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.\n1 hectare\nForest road works\nNo threshold\n1 hectare\nForest quarry works\nNo threshold\n1 hectare",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in operation at 1.5.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/84/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."
}