The Offshore Electricity Development (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted

9.—(1) Where an environmental statement has been provided to the Department the developer shall make it available to the public and the Department shall, when it receives the environmental statement, by general and local advertisement —

(a) describe the nature, size and location of the proposed development;

(b) state where the application for consent and the statement may be inspected;

(c) state that the proposed development is likely to have significant effects on the environment and that an environmental statement has been submitted in respect of them;

(d) state that any person may obtain information from, or make representations in writing to, the Department in relation to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development at an address specified in the notice within 28 days of the date the notice was first published;

(e) indicate the nature of the information in question and the times where and means by which it will be made available;

(f) state the nature of the possible decisions that may be made in the case or, if there is one, the draft decision; and

(g) indicate whether the proposed development is likely to have significant effects on the environment in another EEA State.

(2) Where the Department publishes an advertisement in accordance with paragraph (1) it shall, on or before the date of its first publication send a copy of that notice to each of the consultation bodies and to any person whom it considers is or is likely to be affected by, or has an interest in, the application.