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The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
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- art. 58(1A) inserted by 2011 c. 5 (N.I.) s. 8(3)
- art. 70(2A)-(2C) inserted by 2011 c. 5 (N.I.) s. 9
Consultation before the grant of certain licencesN.I.
9.—(1) This Article applies where an application for a licence has been duly made to the Department, and the Department proposes to issue a licence subject (by virtue of Article 6(4)) to any condition which might require the holder of the licence to—
(a)carry out any works, or
(b)do any other thing,
which he might not be entitled to carry out or do.
(2) Before issuing the licence, the Department shall serve on every person appearing to the Department to be a person falling within paragraph (3) a notice which complies with the requirements set out in paragraph (4).
(3) A person falls within this paragraph if—
(a)he is the owner, lessee or occupier of any land; and
(b)that land is land in relation to which it is likely that, as a consequence of the licence being issued subject to the condition in question, rights will have to be granted by virtue of Article 6(4) to the holder of the licence.
(4) A notice served under paragraph (2) shall—
(a)set out the condition in question;
(b)indicate the nature of the works or other things which that condition might require the holder of the licence to carry out or do; and
(c)specify the date by which, and the manner in which, any representation relating to the condition or its possible effects are to be made to the Department by the person on whom the notice is served.
(5) The date which, pursuant to paragraph (4)(c), is specified in a notice shall be a date not earlier than the date on which expires the period—
(a)beginning with the date on which the notice is served, and
(b)of such length as may be prescribed.
(6) Before the Department issues the licence it shall, subject to paragraph (7), consider any representations made in relation to the condition in question, or its possible effects, by any person on whom a notice has been served under paragraph (2).
(7) Paragraph (6) does not require the Department to consider any representations made by a person after the date specified in the notice served on him under paragraph (2) as the date by which his representations in relation to the condition or its possible effects are to be made.
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