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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/518",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule—\n“sensitive areas” means—\n(a)land to which Article 14(1) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (in this paragraph the 1985 Order) applies (areas of outstanding natural beauty);\n(b)land notified under Article 28 of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (areas of special scientific interest);\n(c)a national park within the meaning of the 1985 Order;\n(d)a nature reserve within the meaning of the 1985 Order;\n(e)a property appearing on the World Heritage List kept under Article 11(2) of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage;\n(f)a scheduled historic monument within the meaning of the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n(g)a European site within the meaning of regulation 9 of the Habitats Regulations ;\n“specified threshold” means any threshold specified in hectares in Column 2 or 3 of the Table in paragraph 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(g) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/279), regs. 1(1), 3(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 in operation at 4.1.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/170 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3153 (N.I. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Command Paper 9424"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1625 (N.I. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/518/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:39.932404+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."
}