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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-and-infrastructure-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/695",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning and Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-and-infrastructure-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2017/571 and S.I. 2017/572 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nTown And Country Planning\nInfrastructure Planning\nMade 6th June 2018\nLaid before Parliament 8th June 2018\nComing into force 1st October 2018\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment.\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 71A(1) and (2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 2011/92/EU, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 8. Section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), and amended by paragraphs 1 and 16 of Schedule 12 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) and S.I. 2011/1043."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1. The Directive has been amended by Council Directive 2014/52/EU, OJ No. L 124, 25.4.2014, p.1."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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