The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990

Publicity where an application is accompanied by an environmental statement

7.—(1) In any case where an applicant for—

(a)a section 36 consent; or

(b)a section 37 consent,

has provided the Secretary of State with an environmental statement, the applicant shall publish in two successive weeks in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land to which the application relates is situated a notice containing the information specified in paragraph (3).

(2) In any case where—

(a)an applicant for a pipe-line authorisation has provided the Secretary of State with an environmental statement; and

(b)the Secretary of State has notified the applicant that the application is to be allowed to proceed,

the applicant shall include in the notices which he is required to publish and serve under paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 1962 Act the information specified in paragraph (3).

(3) A notice to which paragraph (1) or (2) applies—

(a)shall describe the application in question and state that it is accompanied by an environmental statement;

(b)shall give an address in the locality in which the land to which the application relates is situated at which copies of the environmental statement may be obtained, shall state that a copy may be obtained there while stocks last and, if a charge is to be made for a copy of the environmental statement, shall specify the amount of the charge.

(4) A notice under paragraph (1) may be combined with any other notice which the applicant may be required to publish in respect of his application.

(5) In a case to which this regulation applies, the applicant shall ensure that a reasonable number of copies of the statement is available at the address specified pursuant to paragraph (3)(b) as the address at which such copies may be obtained.