{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-36.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Forestry (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Competent authority – avoidance of conflict of interest",
  "text": "(1) The ... Scottish Ministers are to perform their duties arising under these Regulations in an objective manner and so as not to find themselves in a situation giving rise to a conflict of interest.\n(2) Where the Scottish Ministers are to consider an application for EIA consent made by the Scottish Ministers they are to implement within their organisation of administrative competences an appropriate separation between conflicting functions when performing their duties under these Regulations.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(1) omitted (18.3.2021) by virtue of The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 10(30)(a) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(2) substituted (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), 10(30)(b) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 36(3) omitted (18.3.2021) by virtue of The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 10(30)(c) (with reg. 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/113/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:11.161079+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."
}