26. Where the council is also (or would be) the applicant (whether alone or jointly with any other person), these Regulations shall apply to an EIA application (or proposed application) subject to the following modifications—
(a)regulations 7 and 8 shall not apply;
(b)regulation 9(1) shall apply to any body from whom the council requests assistance as it applies to any body notified in accordance with regulation 8(3);
(c)paragraph (2) of regulation 10 shall not apply;
(d)regulation 16 shall not apply;
(e)regulation 20 shall apply as if—
(i)for “Where an environmental statement is submitted, the developer shall make it available to the public, and the council or, as the case may be, the Department shall, when it receives the environmental statement”, there were substituted “Where a council submits an environmental statement it shall”;
(ii)in paragraph (b)(ii) and (d) the words “or, as the case may be, the Department” were omitted;
(iii)in paragraph (c) the words “from the developer” were omitted.
(f)paragraph (b) of regulation 21 shall not apply;
(g)regulation 22 shall apply as if—
(i)in paragraph (1) for the word “receives” there were substituted “submits”;
(ii)paragraph (2) were omitted;
(iii)in paragraph (3) the words “or, as the case may be, the Department” were omitted.