The Island Communities Impact Assessments (Publication and Review of Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

Validation of application

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (7), a relevant authority must, within 10 working days following receipt of an application for review, send a written acknowledgement to the applicant informing the applicant of the website on which documents submitted in connection with the review will be published.

(2) Subject to paragraph (7), where the relevant authority receives an application for review and—

(a) the application form is incomplete, or

(b) documentation listed on the application form as being submitted with the application has not been submitted,

the relevant authority may, within 10 working days following receipt of the application, issue a notice to the applicant.

(3) A notice issued under paragraph (2) must, as the case may be, identify—

(a) the information the applicant must provide in order to complete the application form,

(b) the documentation listed on the application form which was not submitted by the applicant.

(4) The applicant must provide any information or documentation listed in a notice under paragraph (2) to the relevant authority within 10 working days following the second working day after the date the notice was issued.

(5) Where the relevant authority receives all of the information or documentation identified in a notice issued under paragraph (2) within the time limit specified in paragraph (4), the relevant authority must within 10 working days following the expiry of that time limit send a written acknowledgement to the applicant in the same manner as an acknowledgement issued under paragraph (1).

(6) An application for review is taken to have been validated on the date on which the acknowledgement is issued under paragraph (1) or (5) (“the validation date”).

(7) A relevant authority may decline to consider an application for review—

(a) which relates to a decision for which an application has already been received and validated in accordance with paragraph (6), or

(b) where the relevant authority has issued a notice under paragraph (2) and the applicant has failed to submit all of the information or documentation required to comply with that notice within the time limit specified in paragraph (4).

(8) Where a relevant authority declines to consider an application under paragraph (7), the relevant authority must give notice in writing to the applicant confirming whether the application was declined under paragraph (7)(a) or (b).