The Harbour Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Publicity where an environmental statement is supplied

7.—(1) Where an environmental statement is to be supplied under regulation 5(9) or 6(10) the developer shall make it available to the public and the appropriate Department shall, when it receives the environmental statement, publish a notice in a local newspaper circulating in the locality of the harbour where the harbour works are proposed to be carried out, stating –

(a) the name of the developer and the location and nature of the proposed harbour works;

(b) that the developer has applied for consent or approval to the carrying out of the proposed works and specifying the relevant provision pursuant to which consent or approval was applied for;

(c) that the developer has been directed to supply an environmental statement which includes the information referred to in regulation 5(9) or 6(10);

(d) that a copy of any information supplied under regulation 4(3) or 6(3) together with the environmental statement to be supplied under regulation 5(9) or 6(10) may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(e) an address within the locality of the harbour where the harbour works are proposed to be carried out at which the documents open to inspection may be inspected, and the latest date on which they will be available (being a date not less than 4 weeks later than the date on which the notice is published);

(f) an address within the locality of the harbour where the harbour works are proposed to be carried out (whether or not the same as that named under sub-paragraph (e)) at which copies of the environmental statement to be supplied under regulation 5(9) or 6(10) may be obtained, for so long as stocks last, and, if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge; and

(g) that any person who wishes to make representations concerning the proposed harbour works should do so in writing, within a period of 7 days beginning with the day after the date specified in accordance with sub-paragraph (e), to the appropriate Department.

(2) On the date of publication of the notice under paragraph (1) the developer shall post at a place to which members of the public have access at the offices of the harbour authority for the harbour where the harbour works are proposed to be carried out or if there is no such place, shall post outside the offices of the said harbour authority, a notice containing the information specified in paragraph (1).

(3) The developer shall ensure that the notice referred to in paragraph (2) is –

(a) left in a position for a period of 4 weeks beginning with the date of posting;

(b) posted by affixing it firmly to some object on the premises and is sited and displayed in such a way as to be easily visible to and legible by members of the public; and

(c) replaced if it is at any time removed, damaged or defaced.

(4) The developer shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (1), send to the appropriate Department a Certificate which states –

(a) that he has posted a notice at or outside the offices of the harbour authority for the harbour where the harbour works are proposed to be carried out in accordance with paragraph (2), and when he did so; and

(b) that he has complied with the requirements of paragraph (3)(b) and will comply with the requirements of paragraph (3)(c) should this be necessary.