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Statutory Rule 2002 No. 249
Environmental
Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND
2002 No. 249
FORESTRY
Environmental Impact Assessment
(Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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Made
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23rd July 2002
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Coming into operation
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27th September 2002
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The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a department
designated[1]
for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in
relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the
impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on
the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said
section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes
the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited
as the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations
(Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 27th September 2002.
Interpretation
2. - (1) In these
Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Environmental
Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000[3].
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[4] shall
apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland
Assembly.
Amendment of the principal Regulations
3. - (1) The principal
Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 3(1)(c)(iii) after the words
"Schedule 1" the words " Part I" shall be omitted.
(3) In regulation 21(2) for the words "the
statutory maximum" there shall be substituted the words "level 5 on
the standard scale" .
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development on
23rd July 2002.
L.S.
Malcolm Beatty
A Senior Officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations correct two errors in the Environmental Impact Assessment
(Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 84) ("the
principal Regulations"). They remove an erroneous reference in
regulation 3 of the principal Regulations and they correct the provision
relating to fines in regulation 21(2) of those Regulations in accordance with
the terminology used for offences which are summary only.
Notes:
[1] S.I. 1988/785back
[2] 1972 c. 68back
[3] S.R. 2000 No. 84back
[4] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)back
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