{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/felling-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/felling-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2019/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Felling (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/felling-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Felling applications: additional information and powers of entry",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may—\n(a) request from the applicant such additional information, and\n(b) consult such persons and make such other inquiries as they may consider necessary or relevant for the purposes of making a decision on an application for felling permission.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may at any reasonable time—\n(a) enter the felling area with the consent of an owner or occupier of that land, and\n(b) take onto the felling area such other persons or such equipment as they consider necessary for the purposes of making a decision on an application for felling permission.\n(3) An application for felling permission may be rejected by the Scottish Ministers without further consideration if—\n(a) the applicant does not supply information that has been requested under paragraph (1)(a) within such reasonable timescale as the Scottish Ministers may have specified, or\n(b) the Scottish Ministers are unable to access the felling area because consent under paragraph (2) is not given.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(b) substituted for reg. 4(1)(b)(c) (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 12(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2)(b) substituted for reg. 4(1)(b)(c) (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 12(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2019, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/49/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:04.975721+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."
}