{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2004/6",
  "legislation_title": "Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendment or revocation of nature conservation orders",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by order amend or revoke a nature conservation order (and an order under this subsection is, in this Act, referred to as an amending order or, as the case may be, a revoking order).\n(2) An amending order may—\n(a) add to the prohibited operations specified in a nature conservation order, modify the description of any prohibited operation so specified or remove any prohibited operation so specified from the order,\n(b) amend any circumstances specified in a nature conservation order in relation to an operation by virtue of section 23(1)(b),\n(c) extend or restrict the area of land to which a nature conservation order relates.\n(3) An amending order has effect on being made.\n(4) A nature conservation order which is amended by an amending order has effect, for so long as the amending order has effect, as amended.\n(5) A revoking order may revoke a nature conservation order in relation to part only of the land to which the nature conservation order relates.\n(6) A revoking order has effect on being made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 29.11.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/495, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/6/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:36.867450+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."
}