{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1518",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-works-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification of a screening opinion",
  "text": "(1) Where the applicant requests a screening opinion under regulation 11(1) in accordance with paragraph 1(1), the appropriate authority must provide its screening opinion to—\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) if the appropriate authority is not also the regulator, the regulator; and\n(c) such of the consultation bodies as it consulted in accordance with paragraph 4.\n(2) The appropriate authority must provide the opinion as soon as possible within a period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the request is made.\n(3) In exceptional cases, where the nature, complexity, location or size of the project demands a longer period for determination, the appropriate authority may extend the period specified in sub-paragraph (2), informing the applicant in writing of the reasons justifying the extension and of the date on which its screening opinion is expected.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/115), reg. 42(a) (with regs. 1(2), 40, 41)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 substituted (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/588), regs. 1(1), 30(7) (with reg. 34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1518/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:52:07.662289+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."
}