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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-decisions-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-decisions-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/305",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Planning (Decisions) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-decisions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Biological diversity",
  "text": "When deciding an application for development consent the Secretary of State must have regard to the United Nations Environmental Programme Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992 and where the application is for development in Scotland the Secretary of State must also have regard to any strategy designated under section 2(1) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7 substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011(Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011(Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (revoked) 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.3.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmd. 2915."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 asp. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/635",
      "affecting_title": "The Localism Act 2011(Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/305/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:53:14.971855+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."
}