7.—(1) Schedule 9 to the 1997 Act (review of old mineral planning permissions) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 1 (interpretation), at the end insert–
“(8) Where an electronic communication is used to make an application to a planning authority under any of paragraphs 6, 7 or 9 below, the applicant shall be deemed to have agreed–
(a)to the use of electronic communication for all purposes relating to the application which are capable of being given effect to using such communications; and
(b)that the applicant’s address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application (or other such address as the applicant may notify in writing to the planning authority),
unless the applicant gives notice in writing to the planning authority in accordance with sub paragraphs (9) and (10).
(9) An applicant may give notice that the applicant no longer agrees to the use of electronic communications for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) or (b) of sub-paragraph (8).
(10) Any such notice shall take effect on the date specified in it as the effective date, being a date occurring after the period of seven days, beginning with the date on which the notice is given.”.
(3) In paragraph 9 (applications for approval of conditions, and appeals where conditions approved are not those proposed) in sub-paragraph (2)(d), for “an address” substitute “a postal address”.