9.—(1) The following persons or descriptions of persons are specified for the purposes of section 61Z(4) of the 1990 Act—
(a)any community consultee;
(b)any specialist consultee; and
(c)any relevant person(1).
(2) Where an applicant is required to consult a community consultee or a relevant person, the applicant must give the community consultee or the relevant person requisite notice in writing of the proposed application.
(3) Where an applicant is required to consult a specialist consultee, the applicant must give the specialist consultee requisite notice in writing of the proposed application and enclose each of the documents referred to in article 8(1)(b) or provide a link to a website on which those documents can be found.
(4) The applicant must have complied with paragraphs (2) and (3) and have given the specialist consultee time to respond in accordance with article 10(1) before an application is submitted.
(5) In this article, “requisite notice” (“hysbysiad gofynnol”) means—
(a)in relation to a community consultee or a relevant person notice in the appropriate form set out in Schedule 1; and
(b)in relation to a specialist consultee notice in the appropriate form set out in Schedule 2,
or in a form substantially to the like effect.
See section 62G(2) of the 1990 Act for the meaning of “relevant person” (“person perthnasol”). Section 62G was inserted by section 20 of the 2015 Act.