The Industrial Pollution Control (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Written representations

13.—(1) Where the appellant informs the Department that he wishes the appeal to be disposed of on the basis of written representations, the enforcing authority shall submit any written representations to the Department not later than 28 days beginning with the date of receipt of a copy of the documents mentioned in regulation 10(2)(a) and (f).

(2) The appellant shall make any further representations by way of reply to any representations from the enforcing authority not later than 17 days beginning with the date of submission of those representations by the enforcing authority.

(3) Any representations made by the appellant or the enforcing authority shall be dated and submitted to the Department on the date they bear.

(4) When the enforcing authority or the appellant submits any representations to the Department they shall at the same time send a copy of them to the other party.

(5) The Department shall send to the appellant and the enforcing authority a copy of any representations made to it by the persons mentioned in regulation 12(1) and shall allow the appellant and the enforcing authority a period not less than 14 days beginning with the date of receipt of those documents in which to make representations thereon.

(6) The Department may in a particular case—

(a) set later time limits than those mentioned in this regulation;

(b) require exchanges of representations between the parties in addition to those mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2).