{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-amendment-regulations-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-amendment-regulations-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/585",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Land Drainage, England And Wales\nMade 24th April 2017\nLaid before Parliament 24th April 2017\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 24th April 2017\nComing into force 16th May 2017\nFor the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (“the ECA 1972”)—\n(a) the Secretary of State has been designated in relation to the environment; and\n(b) the Welsh Ministers have been designated in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in so far as they concern improvement works within the meaning in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999.\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the ECA 1972—\n(a) the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, to the extent that they are designated to do so; and\n(b) the Secretary of State, in every other respect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812. The functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by means of that Order are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1783, amended by S.I. 2005/1399, S.I. 2006/618, S.I. 2013/755 (W. 90)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/585/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:05.442681+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."
}