Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 249

FORESTRY

Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

23rd July 2002

Coming into operation

27th September 2002

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.

(1)

S.I. 1988/785

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

S.R. 2000 No. 84

(4)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)