Regulation 9 Provision of informationI1

Where the Secretary of State determines in response to a request for an environmental determination that proposed pipe-line works are EIA development, receives a notice of preparation of environmental statement or directs that such a statement be prepared pursuant to regulation 3(3) F1or regulation 6(1A) above, he shall,

Subject to paragraph (3) below, any consultation body notified in accordance with paragraph (1) above that a public gas transporter is to submit an environmental statement shall, if so requested in writing by the public gas transporter, enter into consultation with the public gas transporter to determine whether the body has in its possession any information which it or the public gas transporter considers relevant to the preparation of an environmental statement and which, but for the provisions of this paragraph, could not readily be obtained by the public gas transporter, and if it has such information, the body shall make it available to the public gas transporter.

A reasonable charge reflecting the cost of making the relevant information available may be made by any body supplying it.

Nothing in this regulation shall require the disclosure of any information which is by virtue of any rule of the law of any part of Great Britain subject to any obligation of confidentiality.