Planning and Infrastructure Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:00 pm on 9 June 2025.
Amendments made: 112, page 177, line 13, after “55” insert “(1)”.
This amendment corrects a minor drafting error so as to match the cross-reference in the new paragraph (4A) to that in regulation 58(2) (so both are to “regulation 55(1)”).
Amendment 113, page 177, line 15, leave out “Natural England” and insert “—
(a) so far as the licence relates to the restricted English inshore region, the Marine Management Organisation; and
(b) otherwise, Natural England.”.
The effect of this amendment is that where developers for developments in the territorial sea are treated (by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Bill) as having been granted a species licence under regulation 55 of the Habitats Regulations, the licensing authority is the Marine Management Organisation rather than Natural England.
Amendment 114, page 177, line 15, at end insert—
“(da) in paragraph (6), for “paragraph (2)” substitute “this regulation”;”.—(Matthew Pennycook.)
This amendment is consequential on Amendment 113.
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