{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-tree-preservationengland-regulations-2012/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-tree-preservationengland-regulations-2012/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-tree-preservationengland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Prohibited activities",
  "text": "Without prejudice to subsection (7) of section 198 (power to make tree preservation orders) or subsection (1) of section 200 (tree preservation orders: Forestry Commissioners) and, subject to the exceptions in regulation 14, no person shall—\n(a) cut down;\n(b) top;\n(c) lop;\n(d) uproot;\n(e) wilfully damage; or\n(f) wilfully destroy,\nany tree to which an order relates, or shall cause or permit the carrying out of any of the activities in sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) to such a tree, except with the written consent of the authority and, where such consent is given subject to conditions, in accordance with those conditions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 198(7) was amended by section 192(8) of, and paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 8 to, the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 200 was substituted by section 85 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) and subsection (1) was amended by section 192(8) of, and paragraphs 7 and 9 of Schedule 8 to, the Planning Act 2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/605/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:39:11.355222+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."
}