Provisions the documents cite: s.1 (taking, injuring or killing badgers) and s.3 (interfering with a sett)
What it requires
It is an offence to damage, destroy or obstruct a badger sett or disturb a badger in it without a licence; a sett found on site stops the work in that area until the ecologist advises.
The instrument itself: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/51. The summary above is our plain-English reading, not the text of the instrument — always work from the source.
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