# The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Regulation 22: Further information and evidence relating to environmental statements


(1) The Secretary of State, or reporter, or the planning authority, when dealing with an application or appeal in relation to which an environmental statement has been provided, may in writing require the applicant or appellant to provide such further information as may be specified to enable the application or appeal to be determined, or concerning any matter which is required to be dealt with in the environmental statement; and where in the opinion of the planning authority, the Secretary of State or the reporter—
(a) the applicant or appellant could (having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment) provide further information about any matter mentioned in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3; and
(b) that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development,
they or he shall notify the applicant or appellant in writing and the applicant or appellant shall provide that further information.
(2) The Secretary of State, the reporter, or the planning authority may in writing require to be produced to them such evidence, in respect of any environmental statement which it falls to them to take into consideration, as they may reasonably call for to verify any information it contains.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-22
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