The Radioactive Substances (Appeals) Regulations 1990

Action upon receipt of notice of appeal

4.—(1) Upon receipt of a notice of appeal accompanied by the documents specified in regulation 2(2) above, the Secretary of State shall send to the chief inspector a copy of the notice of appeal, the statement of the appellant’s case and the appellant’s statement indicating whether he wishes the appeal to be in the form of a hearing or to be disposed of on the basis of written representations.

(2) Where the appeal is against a decision in respect of an application for an authorisation under section 6 of the 1960 Act on which the chief inspector consulted any local authority, local fisheries committee, river purification authority, statutory water undertakers or other public or local authority under section 9(3) of the 1960 Act(1), the chief inspector shall notify the Secretary of State of the names of the authorities consulted.

(3) The Secretary of State shall send to any authority whose name is notified to him under paragraph (2) above a notice stating that an appeal has been lodged and that within a period of 21 days beginning with the date of service of that notice the authority may make representations to the Secretary of State with respect to the subject-matter of the appeal.

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Section 9(3) was amended as respects England and Wales by paragraph 27(2)(b) of Schedule 25 to the Water Act 1989 (c. 15). It was further amended by section 100(2) of, and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 5 to, the Environmental Protection Act 1990.