The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000

5.—(1) Where the appeal is to be disposed of on the basis of written representations, SEPA shall submit any written representations to the Scottish Ministers not later than 28 days after receiving a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph 1(2)(a) and (f) .

(2) The appellant shall make any further representations by way of reply to any representations from SEPA not later than 17 days after the date of submission of those representations by it.

(3) Any representations made by the appellant or SEPA shall bear the date on which they are submitted to the Scottish Ministers.

(4) When SEPA or the appellant submits any representations to the Scottish Ministers they shall at the same time send a copy of them to the other party.

(5) The Scottish Ministers shall send to the appellant and SEPA a copy of any representations made to them by the persons mentioned in paragraph 3(1) and shall allow the appellant and SEPA a period of not less than 14 days in which to make representations on them.

(6) The Scottish Ministers may in a particular case–

(a) set later time limits than those mentioned in this paragraph;

(b) require exchanges of representations between the parties in addition to those mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2).