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(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act (and, in particular, to the duty of the [F1appropriate forestry authority] to take advice under section 37(3), if it appears to the [F1appropriate forestry authority] that it is expedient in the interests of good forestry, or for purposes connected with their duty of promoting the establishment and maintenance F2. . . of adequate reserves of growing trees, that any growing trees should be felled—
(a)in order to prevent deterioration or further deterioration in the quality of the timber comprised therein; or
(b)in order to improve the growth of other trees,
they may give directions (in this Act referred to as “felling directions”) to the owner of the trees requiring him to fell them within such period, being not less than two years after the directions have become operative, as may be specified in the directions.
(2)In considering whether to give felling directions, the [F1appropriate forestry authority] shall have regard to the interests of agriculture and the amenity or convenience of any farm or dwelling-house or park usually occupied with a dwelling-house, or of any land held inalienably by the National Trust or the National Trust for Scotland.
(3)Felling directions given by the [F1appropriate forestry authority] shall contain a statement of the grounds upon which they are given.
(4)A person who is given felling directions by the [F1appropriate forestry authority] may comply with the directions notwithstanding any lease, covenant or contract relating to the trees or land affected by the directions.
(5)In the case of trees to which a tree preservation order relates, felling directions given by the [F1appropriate forestry authority] after the date on which the order comes into force[F3shall be sufficient authority for the felling, notwithstanding anything in—
(a)tree preservation regulations, in the case of trees in England or Wales;
(b)the tree preservation order, in the case of trees in Scotland.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 18 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 59 (with Sch. 7)
F2Words in s. 18(1) omitted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1747, art. 3, Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 4(9)
F3Words in s. 18(5) substituted (6.4.2012 for E.) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), s. 241(3)(4), Sch. 8 para. 3 (with s. 226); S.I. 2012/601, art. 2(a)
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