Amendment to the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 20042
1
The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 20043 are amended as follows.
2
After regulation 17, insert—
Coronavirus: temporary modification of public inspection requirements18
During the period beginning with 16th July 2020 and ending with 31st December 2020—
a
regulations 11(2)(a), 11(3)(a) and 13(4) have effect as if the word “publish” was substituted for the words “keep a copy of”;
b
regulations 11(2)(a), 11(3)(a), 13(4) and 16(1)(a) have effect as if the words “on a website” were substituted for the words “available at its principal office for inspection by the public at all reasonable times and free of charge”;
c
regulations 11(2)(b)(iii), 11(3)(b)(iii) and 16(1)(b)(iii) have effect as if the words “or from which a copy may be obtained” were omitted;
d
regulations 11(2)(b)(iii), 11(3)(b)(iii), 13(2)(c), 15(4)(d) and 16(3)(c) have effect as if the words “website address at which” were substituted for the words “address (which may include a website) at which a copy of”;
e
regulations 11(2)(b)(iii), 11(3)(b)(iii), 15(4)(b) and 15(4)(d) have effect as if the word “viewed” was substituted for the word “inspected”;
f
regulations 13(2)(c), 15(4)(d), and 16(3)(c) have effect as if the words “, or from which a copy may be obtained” were omitted;
g
regulations 15(4)(b) and 16(1)(b)(iii) have effect as if the words “website address” were substituted for the words “address (which may include a website)”;
h
regulation 11 has effect as if paragraph (4) was omitted;
i
regulation 13 has effect as if—
i
in subparagraphs (3)(a) and (3)(b)(iii) the word “of” was omitted from the words “and of the”; and
ii
paragraph (5) was omitted;
j
regulation 15 has effect as if paragraph (6) was omitted;
k
regulation 16 has effect as if subparagraphs (1)(iv) and (v) were omitted; and
l
regulation 16(1)(a) has effect as if the word “publish” was substituted for the words “make a copy of”.