The Planning (Electronic Communications) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

4.  After regulation 36 (appeals to the Commission for developments for which an environmental statement is required), there shall be inserted—

“Use of electronic communications

36A.— (1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person uses electronic communications to make an application under regulation 6 (pre-application determination as to the need for environmental impact assessment and opinion as to content of environmental statement), and except where a contrary intention appears, the applicant shall be taken to have agreed—

(a) to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the application which is capable of being effected using such communications;

(b) that the address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application;

(c) that the person’s deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until he gives notice in writing that he wishes to revoke the agreement and such withdrawal or revocation shall be final and shall take effect on a date specified by him in the notice but not less than seven days after the date on which the notice is given.

(2) In paragraph (3)(a) of regulation 6 the requirement for the application to be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the land to which the application relates is satisfied where the applicant identifies the land on an electronic map provided by the Department and for this purpose a map is taken to be provided where the Department has published it on its website.”.