Amendment to the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004
2.—(1) The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004(1) are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 17, insert—
“Coronavirus: temporary modification of public inspection requirements
18. 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”.”.
S.I. 2004/1633; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2011/1043 and S.I. 2013/755; relevant pending amending instrument is S.I. 2018/1232.