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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "EIA forestry project",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 9 ..., the occurrence of an event mentioned in paragraph (2) will determine for the purposes of these Regulations that a forestry project is an EIA forestry project.\n(2) The events are—\n(a) the adoption by the Scottish Ministers of a screening opinion to the effect that the forestry project is an EIA forestry project;\n(b) the giving of a statement of reasons by the Scottish Ministers under paragraph 3(5) of schedule 4; or\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) if none of the events in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) has occurred, the submission by the applicant, in relation to the forestry project, of a report referred to by the applicant as an EIA report.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(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(7)(a) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(a) 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(7)(b)(i) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(b) 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(7)(b)(i) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(b) inserted (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(7)(b)(ii) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(c) 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(7)(b)(iii) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(d) 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(7)(b)(iv) (with reg. 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/113/regulation/8",
    "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."
}