{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/10",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Advisory committees.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of advising the appropriate forestry authority as to the performance of their functions under section 1(3) and Part II of this Act, and such other functions as the appropriate forestry authority may from time to time determine—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) the appropriate forestry authority shall continue to maintain a regional advisory committee for each conservancy (within the meaning of Part II of this Act) in England and Wales.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The appropriate forestry authority shall—\n(a) in considering whether to refuse a felling licence under Part II of this Act, or to grant it unconditionally or subject to any conditions; and\n(b) in considering whether to give felling directions under the said Part II,\ntake into account any advice tendered by the regional advisory committee for the conservancy in which are growing the trees to which the felling licence applied for, or the directions proposed to be given, relate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional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)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 37(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 37(1)(a) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2019) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/734), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 34; S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 37(2) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 37 heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/10/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:01.788833+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}