22.—(1) This article applies to a removal activity using a vehicle carried on by or on behalf of a local authority for the purpose of removing any litter or seaweed from a beach.
(2) This article does not apply to any such removal activity—
(a)that falls within sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (3); and
(b)that is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site or area referred to in that sub-paragraph.
(3) Such an activity falls within this paragraph if—
(a)it is a plan or project likely (either alone or in combination with other plans or projects) to have a significant effect on a European site;
(b)it is likely to have a significant effect on a Ramsar site; or
(c)it is capable of affecting (other than insignificantly)—
(i)the protected features of an MPA;
(ii)any ecological or geomorphological process on which the conservation of any protected feature of an MPA is (wholly or in part) dependent.