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Paragraph 2A F1F2

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Where under section 15(2)(a) an application, on being referred to the appropriate national authority, falls to be dealt with under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the appropriate national authority must decide the application as if it were an application for consent for the felling of trees made under tree preservation regulations.

(2)

In this paragraph, “the appropriate national authority” means—

(a)

the Secretary of State in relation to England;

(b)

the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 3-22 (as amended (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), 11(2)(b)(3)(a)))

F2

Sch. 3 para. 2A inserted (6.4.2012 for E.) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), s. 241(3)(4), Sch. 8 para. 6(3) (with s. 226); S.I. 2012/601, art. 2(a)