{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-50.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Annex 1 or annex 2 application to development corporation without environmental statement",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the development corporation that a specific development application is an application to which regulation 48 applies, but it is not accompanied by an environmental statement, they shall within 4 weeks beginning with the date of receipt of the application or such longer period as they may reasonably require notify the applicant in writing—\n(a) of their view that without taking into consideration environmental information they may not grant authorisation in respect of the proposed development;\n(b) of their view that the applicant should provide an environmental statement;\n(c) that the authorities, bodies and persons mentioned in Schedule 4, as may appear to the development corporation to be relevant, are required to make available to him such information as they have in their possession which he or they consider relevant to the preparation of the environmental statement,\nand the development corporation shall also inform the authorities, bodies and persons mentioned in Schedule 4 as may appear to them to be relevant—\n(i) of the application and the requirement for an environmental statement; and\n(ii) that they may be required to make available to the applicant in accordance with regulation 55 any information in their possession which he or they consider relevant o the preparation of the environmental statement.\n(2) The applicant may within 4 weeks beginning with the date of notification—\n(a) inform the development corporation in writing that he will provide an environmental statement;\n(b) apply to the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 61 for a direction under regulation 49(a) as to whether consideration of environmental information is required; or\n(c) apply to the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 61 for a direction under regulation 49(b) that the application should, as regards the whole or any part thereof, be exempted from these Regulations.\n(3) If the applicant takes no action under paragraph (2) or states that he does not intend to provide an environmental statement, his application shall be deemed to have been withdrawn at the end of the period mentioned in that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/regulation/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:32.715746+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."
}