The Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Harbours, Highways and Transport) Regulations 2017 No. 1070

Projects and works in Scotland or Northern Ireland: national defence exemption

7.  Schedule 5 makes provision for the exemption of projects or works from the requirement for an environmental impact assessment under—

(a) the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993;

(b) the Harbour Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1);

(c) the Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007 and the Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007 (Applications and Objections) Procedure Regulations 2007,

where the sole purpose of the works or projects is national defence.

(1)

S.R. (N.I.) 2003/136.