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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/viking-ccs-carbon-dioxide-pipeline-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-21/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/509",
  "legislation_title": "The Viking CCS Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/viking-ccs-carbon-dioxide-pipeline-order-2025/enacted",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Biodiversity net gain",
  "text": "(1) No development may commence until a scheme securing the provision of biodiversity net gain of 10% or greater for habitats affected by the construction of AGIs or BVSs forming part of the authorised development (as calculated using Natural England Biodiversity Metric 4.0, or such other biodiversity metric approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature consultation body), has been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority.\n(2) Where such a scheme is approved under this requirement, the works set out in that scheme must be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 21 in force at 1.5.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/509/schedule/2/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:49.996360+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."
}