{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1783",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Notification of determination that improvement works are likely to have significant effects on the environment",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where–\n(a) under regulation 4 or 5(4) above, a drainage body determine that improvement works are likely to have significant effects on the environment; or\n(b) under regulation 5(7) above, the appropriate Authority determines that improvement works are likely to have significant effects on the environment.\n(2) In any case to which this regulation applies, the drainage body shall , subject to regulation 13B below, by notice in at least two local newspapers and on any website maintained by the drainage body–\n(a) inform the public of the need for a determination of whether the improvement works should proceed, and describe briefly the nature, size and location of the proposed improvement works;\n(b) state that—\n(i) the works are likely to have significant effects on the environment;\n(ii) the main reasons for that conclusion by reference to the selection criteria listed in Schedule 2; and\n(iii) the drainage body intend to prepare an environmental statement in respect of them;\n(c) give details of the drainage body responsible for taking the decision as to whether to carry out the improvement works, from whom relevant information can be obtained and to which comments or questions can be submitted, and details of the time by which comments or questions must be submitted;\n(d) give an indication of the availability of the information gathered;\n(e) give details of times and places where, and the means by which, the relevant information will be made available.\n(3) A drainage body which publishes a notice under paragraph (2) above shall, on or before the date of such publication, supply a copy of the notice to each of the consultation bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2) substituted (25.6.2005) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1399), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2)(a) inserted (25.6.2005) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1399), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2)(b) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/585), regs. 1(1), 8(2) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2)(c)-(e) inserted (25.6.2005) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1399), regs. 1, 3(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 21.7.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1783/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:50.879534+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."
}