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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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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/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 1\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 4.1.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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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."
}