Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Additional information

10.—(1) If, after having complied with regulation 9(3), the Department reaches the opinion that any purported environmental statement should contain additional information in order to be a valid environmental statement, it shall notify the applicant of the information (and the number of copies) required and the applicant shall provide the Department with the additional information.

(2) The Department shall send a copy of the additional information sent to it under paragraph (1) to such of the consultation bodies as it shall think fit and to any Member State which has indicated that it wishes to make representations in accordance with regulation 11(1) and inform them that they may make representations within twenty-eight days beginning from the date the information was sent.

(3) The Department shall publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of any project to which any additional information sent to it under paragraph (1) relates a notice:—

(a) referring to the application for consent for that project and the date on which that application was made;

(b) announcing that the additional environmental information is available;

(c) specifying an address at which copies of the additional environmental information may be inspected free of charge and where anyone who wishes to obtain copies of the additional environmental information may do so (for a reasonable charge) at all reasonable hours within twenty-eight days beginning with the publication of the notice; and

(d) stating that any person wishing to make any representations in relation to the additional environmental information shall make them to the Department in writing at the address specified at sub-paragraph (c) within twenty-eight days from the publication of the notice.