{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-82.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "section/82",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Administering, implementing and monitoring EDPs",
  "text": "(1) Natural England’s functions under this Part include—\n(a) administering EDPs;\n(b) taking conservation measures, and doing anything else that Natural England considers necessary to implement EDPs;\n(c) monitoring EDPs.\n(2) In exercise of the function under subsection (1)(b), Natural England may, among other things, develop land.\n(3) Natural England may pay another person to take conservation measures.\n(4) In monitoring an EDP, Natural England must take sufficient measures to monitor—\n(a) the effectiveness of the conservation measures that have been implemented, and\n(b) the effects of the EDP in general.\n(5) In deciding how to monitor an EDP, Natural England must have regard to guidance issued by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 82 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 82 in force at 19.12.2025 by S.I. 2025/1370, reg. 3(2)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/82",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:45:36.899174+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."
}