The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990

Procedure where the Secretary of State receives an environmental statement

8.—(1) Where an applicant submits to the Secretary of State an environmental statement relating to an application for consent falling within regulation 3(1) and also serves a copy of the statement or of a part of it on any other body, he shall—

(a) serve with it a copy of the application and any plan submitted with it (unless he has already served those documents on the body in question);

(b) inform the body that representations may be made to the Secretary of State;

(c) inform the Secretary of State of the name of every body whom he has so served, of the date of service and, where he has not served a copy of the whole of the statement, of the part of which a copy was served.

(2) When the Secretary of State receives an environmental statement in connection with an application for consent falling within regulation 3(1) he shall—

(a) advise any body mentioned in regulation 6(4) on whom the applicant has not served a copy of the statement or a part of it, that a statement will be taken into consideration in determining the application, elicit whether it wishes to receive a copy of the statement or any part of it and inform it that it may make representations;

(b) inform the applicant of the copies required by those bodies and of the names and addresses of the bodies concerned.

(3) The applicant shall serve copies of the environmental statement or a part of it on any body specified in and in accordance with any information given pursuant to paragraph 2(b) and shall inform the Secretary of State of the date or dates on which he does so.

(4) The Secretary of State shall not determine the application until the expiry of 14 days from the last date on which a copy of the environmental statement or a part of it was served in accordance with this regulation.