{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1518",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Determination: Schedule A2 projects",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 9 to 10, the appropriate authority must determine that an environmental impact assessment is required in relation to a regulated activity that is to be carried out in the course of a Schedule A2 project, if it concludes that the project in question is likely, because of its size, nature or location, to have significant effects on the environment.\n(2) In reaching a conclusion as to whether or not a Schedule A2 project is likely to have significant effects on the environment, the appropriate authority must have regard to the criteria set out in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/115), reg. 42(a) (with regs. 1(2), 40, 41)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/588), regs. 1(1), 7(b) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/588), regs. 1(1), 7(c) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/588), regs. 1(1), 7(c) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 heading substituted (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/588), regs. 1(1), 7(a) (with reg. 34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1518/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:52:07.662289+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."
}