The Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009

Amendment of the Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

This section has no associated Executive Note

2.—(1) The Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a)in the definition of “dredging”—

(i)in sub-paragraph (a), omit “(including any enactment contained in a local Act or subordinate legislation)”; and

(ii)omit sub-paragraph (b); and

(b)after the definition of “the EIA Directive” insert—

“enactment” includes an Act of the Scottish Parliament, an enactment in any local Act of Parliament and an Order in Council, order, rule, regulation, byelaw, warrant or scheme or other instrument made under an Act of Parliament or of the Scottish Parliament, including an order or scheme confirmed by Parliament or by the Scottish Parliament;.