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Regulation 13 PublicityI1

England and Wales

F1(1)

A person who makes an application for consent under regulation 10 or who provides further information in relation to that application, whether under regulation 11 or otherwise, shall publish a notice, in accordance with paragraphs (1A) and (2), for the purposes of ensuring—

(a)

the application for consent or, as the case may be, the further information, is made available to the public; and

(b)

the public concerned is given an opportunity to express an opinion before the application for consent is determined.

F2(1A)

A notice required by paragraph (1) shall be published—

(a)

in such newspapers as the appropriate forestry body reasonably may require;

(b)

electronically; and

(c)

by other appropriate and reasonably practicable means.

(2)

A notice required by paragraph (1) above shall—

(a)

state that the application has been made or, as the case may be, that the further information has been furnished to F3the appropriate forestry body;

(b)

specify an office of the appropriate forestry body or other place nominated by them at which copies of the application or the further information may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours within F430 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice;

F5(c)

specify an address at which copies of the application or the further information may be obtained from the applicant and if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount (not exceeding a reasonable charge for copying) of the charge;

(d)

state that any person wishing to make representations regarding the application or the further information should make them in writing to the appropriate forestry body, at an address nominated by them and specified in the notice, within F630 days beginning with the date of publication of the notice; and

(e)

state, in relation to an application, that the appropriate forestry body may decide either—

(i)

to grant consent either subject only to the conditions required by regulation 18 or also subject to such further conditions as they see fit; or

(ii)

to refuse consent.

(3)

On receipt of an application for consent under regulation 10, or of further information F7..., the appropriate forestry body shall provide copies of the application or, as the case may be, the further information, together with a notice stating that any representations regarding the application or the further information should be made in writing to the appropriate forestry body within F830 days beginning with the date of the notice, to—

(a)

the countryside bodies, and

(b)

any local authority or other public authority which appears to the appropriate forestry body to have an interest in the application.

(4)

In this regulation, reference to an application includes a reference to the documents accompanying that application.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 13(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 15(2) (with reg. 28)

F2

Reg. 13(1A) inserted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 15(3) (with reg. 28)

F3

Words in regs. 9-15 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 103 (with Sch. 7)

F4

Words in reg. 13(2)(b) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 15(4) (with reg. 28)

F5

Reg. 13(2)(c)-(e) substituted for reg. 13(2)(c)(d) (31.12.2006) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3106), regs. 1, 2(5)(c)

F6

Words in reg. 13(2)(d) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 15(4) (with reg. 28)

F7

Words in reg. 13(3) omitted (31.12.2006) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3106), regs. 1, 2(5)(d)

F8

Words in reg. 13(3) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 15(4) (with reg. 28)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 13 in force at 6.9.1999, see reg. 1(1)