The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Publicity for an application

8.—(1) At the same time an applicant makes an application he shall publish in the Belfast Gazette and one or more newspapers circulating in –

(a)the locality in which the proposed project, which is the subject of the application, is proposed to be carried out; and

(b)the locality in which the waterway or underground stratum which may be affected by the project is situated,

a notice –

(i)stating the applicant’s name and that he has made an application and that he has provided the Department with an environmental statement or further information in accordance with regulation 6;

(ii)naming a place in the relevant locality at which copies of the application, the environmental statement and any further information may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours within a period of twenty-eight days beginning on the date the notice was published;

(iii)specifying an address at which copies of the application, the environmental statement and any further information may be obtained from the applicant and, if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount (not exceeding a reasonable charge for copying) of the charge; and

(iv)stating that any person wishing to make representations in relation to the application should make them to the Department in writing within a period of twenty-eight days beginning on the date the notice was first published in the newspaper, at a specified address nominated by the Department.

(2) By not later than such date as may be specified by the Department, the applicant shall send a copy of the notice published in the newspaper and the application (including the environmental statement and the further information) to such persons as the Department may specify, under cover of a letter stating that any representations in relation to the application should be made in writing to the Department within a period of twenty-eight days beginning on the date of the letter.

(3) The applicant shall send to the Department a copy of any notice published under paragraph (1).

(4) The Department shall not determine an application made by a person where that person has not complied with a requirement of this regulation.