# Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, Paragraph 3: Thresholds for extending projects

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where the project under consideration is an extending project—
(a) the threshold specified in the Table in paragraph 2 shall not apply; and
(b) the threshold applicable for that project for the purposes of regulation 3(3) shall be instead such balance (if any), in hectares, of the area specified in Column 2 or, as the case may be, Column 3 in that Table opposite the entry in Column 1 for that type of project as remains after deduction of the accumulated material past project area.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), it is immaterial whether any part of the accumulated material past project area is, or is not, in a sensitive area (or any kind of sensitive area).
(3) In this paragraph —
“extending project” means any project covering, or proposed to cover, land adjoining the area of one or more material past projects;
“material past project”, in relation to a particular extending project, means a project which —
(a)is of the same type (as specified in regulation 3(2)) as that extending project; and
(b)was completed after the coming into operation of these Regulations; and
(c)was completed not more than five years before the proposed date for starting the work relating to that extending project;
“accumulated material past project area”, in relation to a particular extending project, means the total area covered by —
(d)the material past project or, if more than one, all of them; and
(e)every other project —
(i)whose area adjoins the material past project, or one of them; and
(ii)which satisfies conditions (a) to (c) in the definition of “material past project”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/518/schedule/2/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-3
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