The Agriculture, Land Drainage and Irrigation Projects (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017

Determination of appeals by written representations

32.—(1) This regulation applies to an appeal made under regulation 30(1) which is to be determined by written representations.

(2) Within a period of 42 days beginning with the date of receipt of notice that the appeal is to be determined by written representations, the appellant must either serve on the Scottish Ministers any further representations that the appellant wishes to be considered by the Scottish Ministers or must notify the Scottish Ministers that the appellant wishes to rely on the information already supplied by that appellant, and the Scottish Ministers must either send to the interested persons copies of any further representations made by the appellant or must notify them that the appellant does not intend to make further representations as the case may be.

(3) Any of the interested persons who wish to make representations in respect of the appeal must, within a period of 28 days beginning with the date of receipt of further representations made by the appellant or of notification that the appellant does not wish to make further representations, as the case may be, serve such representations on the Scottish Ministers, who must send copies of the representations served upon them to the appellant and to the other interested persons.

(4) The Scottish Ministers must allow the appellant and the other interested persons a period of not less than 14 days beginning with the date of receipt of representations made in accordance with paragraph (3), in which to respond to those representations.

(5) No earlier than the expiry of the period specified in paragraph (4), the Scottish Ministers must determine the appeal and must notify the decision and the reasons for it to the appellant and to the interested persons.