{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Protected species: licences under Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—\n(a) an environmental feature identified in an EDP in accordance with section 61(1)(a) is a species protected by Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and\n(b) a developer has committed to pay, in respect of a development, such amount of the nature restoration levy set out in a charging schedule to the EDP as applies in relation to an environmental impact of the development on that protected species.\n(2) A licence under section 16(3)(j) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, relating to the protected species and on the terms set out in the EDP, is to be treated as having been granted to the developer by the appropriate authority (see section 16(8A) and (9) of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 5 in force at 18.2.2026 by S.I. 2025/1370, reg. 4(1)(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:53.445410+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."
}