Regulation 43 Further information and evidence relating to environmental statement
The Secretary of State, when considering an electricity application in relation to which an environmental statement has been provided, may in writing require the applicant to provide such further information as he may specify to enable the application 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 Secretary of State—
the applicant 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
that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development,
he shall notify the applicant in writing, and the applicant shall provide that further information.
The Secretary of State may in writing require the applicant to produce to him such evidence, in respect of any environmental statement which it falls to him to take into consideration, as he may reasonably call for to verify any information it contains.