{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2010/10",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Power of Department to require restocking after unauthorised felling",
  "text": "(1) The Department may serve a notice under this section (a “restocking notice”) on a person where it appears to the Department that—\n(a) the person has committed an offence under section 15(3); and\n(b) the person has such an estate in the land in question as is mentioned in section 16(1).\n(2) A restocking notice is a notice requiring the person on whom it is served—\n(a) to restock or stock with trees of a specified species the land or such other land as may be agreed between the Department and that person; and\n(b) to maintain those trees in accordance with the rules and practice of good forestry for a period, not exceeding 5 years, specified in the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 in operation at 17.6.2013 by S.R. 2013/138, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2010/10/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:05.936881+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."
}