Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Publicity

13.—(1) A person who makes an application for consent under regulation 10 or who provides further information under regulation 11 shall publish a notice in accordance with paragraph (2) in at least two newspapers specified by the Department for the purposes of ensuring—

(a) the application for consent or, as the case may be, the information provided under regulation 11, is made available to the public; and

(b) the public concerned is given an opportunity to express an opinion before the application for consent is determined.

(2) A notice required by paragraph (1) shall—

(a) state that the application has been made or, as the case may be, that the further information has been furnished to the Department;

(b) specify an office of the Department or other place nominated by it at which copies of the application or the further information may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours within 28 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice;

(c) specify an address at which copies of the application or the further information may be obtained from the applicant and, if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount (not exceeding a reasonable charge for copying) of the charge; and

(d) state that any person wishing to make representations regarding the application or the further information should make them in writing to the Department at an address nominated by it and specified in the notice, within 28 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice.

(3) On receipt of an application for consent under regulation 10, or of further information under regulation 11, the Department shall provide copies of the application or, as the case may be, the further information, together with a notice stating that any representations regarding the application or the further information should be made in writing to the Department within 28 days beginning with the date of the notice, to any local authority or other public authority which appears to the Department to have an interest in the application.

(4) In this regulation, reference to an application shall include a reference to the documents accompanying that application.