2017 No. 571
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State has been designated M1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M2 in relation to measures relating to the environment.
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 71A(1) and (2) and 298A(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 M3, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 2011/92/EU M4, makes the following Regulations:C1
1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).
1990 c.8. Section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the 1991 Act, and was amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 12 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) and S.I. 2011/1043.
OJ No. L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1.
Regulations applied (with modifications) by The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/402), art. 5B(2)-(4) (as inserted (1.6.2018) by S.I. 2017/1309, arts. 1, 4)