{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2024/9780111060933",
  "legislation_title": "The Masterplan Consent Area Scheme (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Procedure to facilitate preparation of EIA reports",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), any body specified in paragraph (2) must, if requested by the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers—\n(a) enter into consultation with the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, to determine whether the body have in their possession any information which the planning authority (or the Scottish Ministers) or they consider relevant to the preparation of the EIA report,\n(b) make such information available to the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be.\n(2) The bodies are—\n(a) the consultation bodies,\n(b) any other public body which the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, consider is likely to have an interest in the proposed development by reason of that body’s specific environmental responsibilities or local and regional competencies.\n(3) A request under paragraph (1) must include the information necessary to identify the land and the nature and purpose of the proposed development and must indicate the main environmental consequences to which the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, propose to refer in the EIA report.\n(4) In relation to a person to whom the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 apply, paragraph (1) does not require disclosure of information which the person—\n(a) may refuse to disclose under regulation 10(1) (exceptions to the duty to disclose environmental information) of those Regulations,\n(b) is prevented from disclosing by regulation 11(1) (personal data) of those Regulations.\n(5) In relation to a person to whom the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 apply, paragraph (1) does not require disclosure of information which the person—\n(a) may refuse to disclose under regulation 12(1) (exceptions to the duty to disclose environmental information) of those Regulations,\n(b) is prevented from disclosing by regulation 13(1) (personal data) of those Regulations.\n(6) A reasonable charge reflecting the cost of making the relevant information available may be made by any person who makes information available in accordance with paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2004/520."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3391."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060933/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:04.647794+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}