{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1783",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Restriction on improvement works",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 3A and 3B, a drainage body shall not carry out any improvement works unless–\n(a) they have complied with the requirements of these Regulations in relation to those improvement works; and\n(b) where a proposal is referred to the appropriate Authority under regulation 12B(2)–\n(i) that Authority has consented to the carrying out of the improvement works; and\n(ii) the works are carried out in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/585), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1)(b) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/585), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(b) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)-(4) omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/585), regs. 1(1), 4(3) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 21.7.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1783/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:50.879534+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."
}