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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-1964/schedule-3/paragraph-4B",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/40",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-1964",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must make a screening decision in respect of a proposed application—\n(a) as soon as possible after the day on which the Secretary of State is notified of the proposed application under paragraph 3(1)(a), and\n(b) in any event within the period of 90 days beginning with that day.\n(2) But if the Secretary of State gives a direction under paragraph 4A(1) to the proposed applicant, the screening decision in respect of the proposed application is to be made—\n(a) as soon as possible after the day on which all of the information specified in the direction has been provided by the proposed applicant, and\n(b) in any event within the period of 90 days beginning with that day.\n(3) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 4C.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 substituted (1.2.2000) by The Harbour Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3445), reg. 15(4), Sch. 3"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 paras. 4-4C substituted for Sch. 3 para. 4 (5.12.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Harbours, Highways and Transport) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1070), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(6) (with Sch. 6 paras. 2, 3(2)3(3))"
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