# The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 23rd September 2002.
(2) In these Regulations–
“the Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997;
“the principal Regulations” means the Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999;
“environmental statement” means a statement–
(a) that includes such of the information referred to in Part I of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations as is reasonably required to assess the environmental effects of the development and which the applicant can, having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment, reasonably be required to compile, but
(b) that includes at least the information referred to in Part II of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations.
“ROMP application” means an application to a relevant planning authority to determine the conditions to which a planning permission is to be subject under–
(a) paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 8 to the Act (registration of old mining permissions);
(b) paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 9 to the Act (review of old mineral planning permissions); or
(c) paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 10 to the Act (periodic review of mineral permissions).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/324/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-1
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