Paragraph 3

In regulation 3 (application), after paragraph (2) insert–

“(2A)

Where an appellant or, as the case may be, the appellant and the planning authority, so informs the Scottish Ministers using electronic communications, the appellant shall be deemed to have agreed–

(a)

to the use of such communications for all purposes relating to that appeal which are capable of being carried out electronically;

(b)

that the address for the purpose of such communications with the appellant is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the appellant’s notice of appeal;

(c)

that the appellant’s deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until the appellant gives notice with regulation 8A that the appellant wishes to revoke the agreement;

and the references in paragraphs (3) and (4) of this regulation to an appeal being disposed of on the basis of written submissions shall not be deemed to preclude the use of electronic communications in accordance with this paragraph and regulation 2A.”.