The Forestry (Exceptions from Restriction of Felling) (Amendment) Regulations 1988
These regulations further amend the Forestry (Exceptions from Restriction of Felling) Regulations 1979 (as amended by the Forestry (Exceptions from Restriction of Felling) (Amendment) Regulations 1985). The 1979 Regulations (as amended) provide for six exceptions from the provision in section 9(1) of the Forestry Act 1967 that a felling licence granted by the Forestry Commissioners is required for the felling of growing trees. The present regulations further amend the 1979 Regulations by enlarging the exception introduced by the 1985 Regulations, so that this exception relates not only (as before) to felling in accordance with a plan of operations approved under the Forestry Grant Scheme or the Broadleaved Woodland Grant Scheme but now also relates to felling in accordance with a plan of operations approved under the newly introduced Woodland Grant Scheme. All these schemes are schemes under which the Commissioners agree, subject to the conditions of the scheme, to make grants pursuant to section 1 of the Forestry Act 1979 for and in connection with the use and management of land for forestry purposes.