{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Determination of applications for EIA consent",
  "text": "(1) Where an EIA application is made to the Scottish Ministers, they may (subject to regulation 3(2) and regulation 25)—\n(a) grant EIA consent subject only to the mandatory conditions or also subject to such further conditions as they think fit; or\n(b) refuse to grant EIA consent.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must determine an EIA application before the expiry of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which the Scottish Ministers receive the EIA application or within such other period as may be agreed with the applicant.\n(3) Despite paragraph (2), the Scottish Ministers must not determine an EIA application before the expiry of any period referred to in regulation 18(2)(f) or 19(1)(b).\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the date on which the Scottish Ministers receive the EIA application is the date on which the Scottish Ministers are in receipt of—\n(a) the EIA application;\n(b) the accompanying EIA report;\n(c) any supplementary information requested by the Scottish Ministers under regulation 21(2);\n(d) any evidence requested by the Scottish Ministers under regulation 21(4); and\n(e) any other additional information provided by the applicant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7 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(6) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Forestry (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/130), regs. 1(1), 72; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/113/regulation/7",
    "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."
}