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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Coordination of assessments",
  "text": "(1) Where, in relation to EIA development, there is, in addition to the requirement for an environmental impact assessment to be carried out in accordance with these Regulations, also a requirement to carry out a Habitats Regulations Assessment, the council or, as the case may be, the Department shall, where appropriate, ensure that the Habitats Regulations Assessment and the environmental impact assessment are coordinated.\n(2) In this regulation a “Habitats Regulations Assessment” means an assessment under regulation 43 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 16.5.2017, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/83/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:52:38.569414+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."
}