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Use of electronic communications

13.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation apply where a person uses electronic communications for any of the following purposes—

(a)making an application under regulation 2, for listed building consent;

(b)making an application under regulation 3, for approval required by a condition imposed on a grant of listed building consent;

(c)making an application under regulations 10 or 11, for consent to execute works without compliance with conditions previously attached;

(d)making a claim for compensation under regulation 12.

(2) In a case to which this paragraph applies, and except where a contrary intention appears, the person making the application or claim is taken to have agreed—

(a)to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the application or claim (as the case may be) which are 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 or claim;

(c)that the person’s deemed agreement under this paragraph subsists until that person gives notice in writing that he or she wishes to revoke the agreement and such withdrawal or revocation will be final and will take effect on a date specified by that person in the notice but not less than 7 days after the date on which the notice is given.

(3) In regulation 2(3)(a) the requirement that an application for listed building consent must be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the building is satisfied where the applicant identifies the building on an electronic map provided by the council and for this purpose a map is taken to be provided where the council has published it on its website.