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The Register of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (Scotland) Regulations 2008
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- 2008 No. 221
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These Regulations make provision in respect of the form and content of the SSSI register (regulation 3). That register is constituted by section 22(1) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (“the Act”).
They also provide for the information which SNH is required to send to the Keeper to allow that register to be established (regulation 4) and kept thereafter (regulation 5).
Regulation 5(1) applies to new SSSI notifications, and regulation 5(2) to procedures which affect existing SSSI notifications.
The effect of the notifications referred to in regulation 5(2)(a) is as follows. Notifications under section 5(1) of the Act are given in respect of the enlargement of a site of special scientific interest. Notifications under sections 6(5) and 7(3) of that Act effect changes to the operations requiring consent specified in an SSSI notification. Notifications under section 8(1) may vary the matters included in an SSSI notification by virtue of section 3(4)(a)(i), (ii) and (iv) of the Act, and notifications under section 9(1) revoke an SSSI notification or modify it so as to disapply its effect to part of the site.
Regulation 5(2) also applies to notices under paragraphs 10 and 15 of schedule 1 to the Act. These are given as part of the procedure which applies to SSSI notifications and notifications under sections 5(1) and 9(1) of the Act.
Regulation 6 imposes a duty on the Keeper to amend the register within the timescales specified in paragraph (2) of that regulation.
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