2.—(1) The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990(1) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “local planning authority”, for the words “paragraph 2(6)(a) of Schedule 8 to the 1989 Act”, there shall be substituted—
“sub-paragraph (a), (aa) or (ab) (as the case may be) of paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the 1989 Act(aa)”.
(3) Before footnote (a) to the definition of “principal council”(in regulation 2(1)), the following footnote to sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “local planning authority” shall be inserted—
“(aa)Paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 was amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), section 20(4) and Schedule 6, paragraph 22, and by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), section 78 and Schedule 10, paragraph 30. The former amendment came into force after the latter, and consequently sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 30 applies, and not sub-paragraph (4) or (5) thereof.”.
S.I. 1990/442, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.