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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2017/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this schedule—\n“AMPP area” means the accumulated material past project area, being, in relation to an extending project, the total area covered by—\n(a)all material past projects; and\n(b)every other forestry project which—\n(i)is on land adjoining or near to the area of any material past project; and\n(ii)fulfils the conditions in paragraphs (a) to (c) of the definition of material past project;\n“deep peaty soil” is organic soil which contains more than 60 per cent of organic matter and exceeds 50 centimetres in thickness;\n“extending project” means any forestry project on, or proposed to be on, land which adjoins land on which one or more material past projects has, or have, been carried out;\n“material past project”, in relation to a particular extending project, means a forestry project which—\n(a)is of the same type as that of the extending project;\n(b)was completed after the coming into force of these Regulations; and\n(c)was completed no more than 5 years before the proposed date for beginning work on the extending project;\n“sensitive area” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) but includes, for the purposes of this schedule only, any area of deep peaty soil;\n“type”, in relation to a forestry project, extending project or material past project means one of the following types of forestry project:\n(a)afforestation;\n(b)deforestation;\n(c)forest road works; or\n(d)forest quarry works.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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