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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-1999/regulation-55",
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  "legislation": "ssi/1999/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
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  "path": "regulation/55",
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  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part, except where the context otherwise requires–\n(a) “the Act” means the Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958;\n“improvement order” means an order made by the Scottish Ministers in accordance with the First Schedule to the Act;\n“local authority” means any council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“site of special scientific interest” means land to which section 28(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 applies; and\n“statutory body” means any body exercising functions conferred on it by or under any enactment;\n(b) the following phrases have the meanings assigned to them by section 18(1) of the Act:–\n(i) “agricultural land”;\n(ii) “drainage works”; and\n(iii) “owner”;\n(c) the following phrases have the meanings assigned to them by regulation 2(1):–\n(i) “the consultation bodies”;\n(ii) “environmental information”; and\n(iii) “environmental statement”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
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      "affecting": "ssi/2008/202",
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    },
    {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/1999/1/regulation/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:53:38.551520+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."
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