Regulation 11 Further information and evidence respecting environmental statementsI1

Where the Secretary of State has been provided with an environmental statement he may in writing require the public gas transporter to provide in respect of such statement such further information as he may specify F1which is directly relevant to enabling the Secretary of State to reach the reasoned conclusion on the significant effects of the proposed pipe-line works on the environment under regulation 14 (consent to pipe-line works) F2, and such information provided by the gas transporter is referred to in this regulation, and regulations 2, 12 and 14 as “further information”.

Where, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, F3any further information ought to have been included in the environmental statement in question, the Secretary of State shall notify the public gas transporter and the relevant planning authority in writing accordingly, specifying the information in question, and the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7) below shall apply in respect of F4such further information.

The public gas transporter shall serve a copy of the further information on the consultation bodies, together with a notice referring to the material previously served on that body and stating that further representations may be made in writing to the Secretary of State by a date specified in the notice which shall be at least F530 days after the date on which the further information and notice were served on the body and the public gas transporter shall inform the Secretary of State in writing of the names and addresses of every such body on whom he has served those documents, and the dates on which they were served.

The public gas transporter and the relevant planning authority shall make available to the public copies of the application for consent, the environmental statement and the further information in the same way as they each previously made available F6the application for consent, the environmental statement and any supplementary information for the period commencing on the date of first publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (5) below and expiring on a date not less than 30 days after the date on which the notice is to be last published F7pursuant to that paragraph.

The gas transporter shall publish a notice containing the information specified in paragraph (6)—

A notice published pursuant to paragraph (5) above shall—

The public gas transporter shall provide the Secretary of State with copies of each of the newspapers and Gazettes in which the F10notice referred to in paragraph (5) above appeared in each case no later than 7 days after the date of publication of those newspapers and Gazettes F11and also the address of the public website on which the notice was published in accordance with paragraph (5).

The Secretary of State may in writing require a public gas transporter to produce such evidence as he may reasonably require in support of anything contained in the public gas transporter’s environmental statement.