# The Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) General Order 1992, Article 15: General Order 27A


After General Order 27, there shall be inserted the following General Order:—
“Deposit of environmental statement
27A (1) Where a Provisional Order authorises the carrying out of works the nature and extent of which are specified in the Provisional Order in, on, over or under land so specified, there shall be deposited on or before the twenty-seventh day of March or the twenty-seventh day of November, as the case may be—
(a) three copies of the document or documents specified in paragraph (2) below at each of—
(i) the Scottish Office, London; and
(ii) the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh; and
(b) one copy of that document or those documents—
(i) in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords;
(ii) in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons; and
(iii) at each of the places at which copies of the Provisional Order require to be deposited in terms of General Order 39.
(2) The document or documents required to be deposited are—
(a) an environmental statement containing, in relation to the works authorised by the Provisional Order—
(i) all of the information set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations();
(ii) all of the further information set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (g) of paragraph 3 of that Schedule; and
(iii) a summary in non-technical language of the information contained in the statement; or
(b) an environmental statement containing, in relation to the works authorised by the Provisional Order—
(i) such of the information set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph 2 of that Schedule as may be specified in a written direction given by the Secretary of State;
(ii) such of the further information set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (g) of paragraph 3 of that Schedule as may be so specified; and
(iii) a summary in non-technical language of the information contained in the statement;
together with that written direction; or
(c) a written direction given by the Secretary of State that no environmental statement is necessary in relation to the works authorised by the Provisional Order.
(3) Where any such works authorised by a Provisional Order relate to two or more distinct projects, each project may be treated separately for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) above and references in those paragraphs to the works authorised by the Provisional Order shall accordingly be construed in such a case as references to the works comprised in each project.
(4) Any direction given by the Secretary of State for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) or sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (2) above shall include a statement of his reasons for giving the direction.
(5) In this General Order, “works” does not include works for which planning permission (within the meaning of section 275(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972() has been granted.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1206/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/private-legislation-procedure-scotland-general-order-1992/article-15
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