{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-and-marine-strategy-amendment-regulations-2018/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-and-marine-strategy-amendment-regulations-2018/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/287",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) and Marine Strategy (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-and-marine-strategy-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Marine Strategy Regulations 2010",
  "text": "(1) The Marine Strategy Regulations 2010 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the definition of “competent authority”—\n(i) in paragraph (b), after “region” insert “and the Welsh offshore region”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (c), for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”;\n(b) in the definition of “devolved marine area”—\n(i) in paragraph (b), after “region” insert “and the Welsh offshore region”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (c), for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”;\n(c) in the definition of “devolved policy authority”, for “Department of the Environment” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs”; and\n(d) in the definition of “Northern Ireland body”, for the words from “the Department of Agriculture” to the end substitute “the Department for the Economy and the Department for Infrastructure”.\n(3) In regulation 8 (cooperation in implementation of the marine strategy), in paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “or the Welsh inshore region” substitute “, the Welsh inshore region or the Welsh offshore region”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “a devolved policy authority or” substitute “the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland or a”; and\n(ii) omit “or the Welsh offshore region”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1627, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/287/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:59.933769+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."
}