{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-26A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-26A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/10",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967",
  "path": "section/26A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26A",
  "heading": "Appeals against notices given under section 24C(3) and 24D(2)",
  "text": "(1) The following persons have a right to bring an appeal against a notice given under section 24C(3) if the person thinks that any of the grounds set out in subsection (2) applies—\n(a) the person to whom the notice was given;\n(b) a person who has such estate or interest in the land as is referred to in section 10(1);\n(c) the owner of the trees.\n(2) The grounds are—\n(a) a condition referred to in the notice has been complied with or is being complied with;\n(b) suspending or revoking the felling licence is unreasonable or disproportionate;\n(c) the variation of a condition of the felling licence, or the imposition of a new condition, is unreasonable or disproportionate;\n(d) a step specified in the notice is unreasonable or disproportionate;\n(e) where the notice has suspended the felling licence, the suspension should have been brought to an end by a notice given under section 24C(7)(b).\n(3) A person to whom a notice has been given under section 24D(2) has a right to bring an appeal against the notice if the person thinks that a step specified in the notice is unreasonable or disproportionate.\n(4) An appeal under this section is brought by serving a notice on the Welsh Ministers requesting that they refer the matter to a committee appointed in accordance with section 27 (and see section 26C for further provision about such requests).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 26A-26G inserted (18.8.2023 for specified purposes, 1.4.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), ss. 41, 56(1)(a); S.I. 2023/1092, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/10/section/26A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:01.788833+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."
}