{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2892",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Consultation by the ONR",
  "text": "(1) Where the ONR receives in relation to a proposed project an application for a consent pursuant to regulation 4(1)(a) it shall—\n(a) within 21 days of the date of receipt of such application notify the consultation bodies in writing of the name and address of the licensee and of the duty imposed on them by regulation 7 to make information available to the licensee; and\n(b) inform the licensee of the names and addresses of the bodies notified under sub-paragraph (a) above.\n(2) Where the ONR is provided with an environmental statement pursuant to regulation 5 it shall—\n(a) consult the consultation bodies as to the information contained in that statement and for that purpose shall within 21 days of the date of receipt of such statement provide to them the information contained in that statement;\n(b) require any body consulted under sub-paragraph (a) to respond to the ONR within such reasonable time as the ONR may specify; ...\n(c) send a copy of the environmental statement to the Secretary of State stating whether or not in the opinion of the ONR the project to which the environmental statement relates is likely to have significant effects on the environment in an EEA State; and\n(d) shall inform any particular person who they are aware is or is likely to be affected by, or has an interest in, the application, who is unlikely to become aware of it by means of a local advertisement, by sending them a notice that contains those details set out in regulation 9(2)(j) and (l).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Regulations substituted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), Sch. 3 para. 95 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 10(3) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(b) substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 10(4)(a) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(b) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/657), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ionising Radiation (Environmental and Public Protection) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(1), 2(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(c) inserted (6.4.2006) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/657), regs. 1, 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(d) inserted (6.4.2006) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/657), regs. 1, 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2)(d) substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 10(4)(b) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3)(4) omitted (6.8.2018) by virtue of The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 10(5) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8 heading substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 10(2) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 19.11.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2892/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:39:08.821548+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."
}