2.—(1) The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5(3), (4) and (5), delete “(or the period of 28 days referred to in regulation 13B(3)(a) below, whichever is the greater)”.
(3) For regulation 13B(2), substitute—
13B.—(1) Where the site of the proposed improvement works is easily visible from a public highway, the requirements in regulations 5(1), 6(2), 10(1) to 10(3), 12(3), 12(6)(a) and 12(8) to place a notice in at least two newspapers may instead be satisfied by—
(a)placing the notice in one such newspaper; and
(b)on the date on which that notice is first published, posting on the site in one or more places a notice containing the information specified in the regulation in question.
(2) Any notice of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall—
(a)in relation to the information specified in regulation 5(1)(d), 10(2)(b) or 12(6)(a), specify as the period within which representations may be made the period of not less than 28 days from the date on which the notice is first posted;
(b)be left in position for not less than seven consecutive days following the date on which the notice is first posted; and
(c)be affixed firmly to some object on the site in such a way as to be easily visible to, and readable by, members of the public without going on to the land.
(3) Where the requirements in regulation 5(1), 6(2), 10(1) to 10(3), 12(3), 12(6)(a) or 12(8) as regards the placing of a notice in at least two newspapers are satisfied by the alternative means specified in paragraph (1), any reference in these Regulations—
(a)to a notice, being a notice published under or in accordance with any of those regulations, means the notice published under or in accordance with regulation 13B(1)(a); and
(b)to publication of such a notice (however expressed) is a reference to publication of the notice under or in accordance with regulation 13B(1)(a).”.
S.I. 1999/1783, as amended by S.I. 2005/1399. References to “the Nature Conservancy Council for England” were amended by s.73(2) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37).
Regulation 13B was inserted by S.I. 2005/1399, regulation 4(6).