SCHEDULE 5Environmental permits

PART 1Grant, variation, transfer and surrender of environmental permits

Public participation in relation to certain applications6

1

Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), if this paragraph applies the regulator must, within the consultation communication period—

a

take the steps it considers appropriate to inform the public consultees of the application and the place and times its public register can be inspected free of charge;

b

invite the public consultees to make representations on the application; and

c

specify to the public consultees the address to which and the period within which representations are to be made.

2

The regulator must not inform the public consultees of information which is to be excluded from a public register in the interests of national security unless the appropriate authority directs that it must do so.

3

The regulator must not inform the public consultees of information which is to be excluded from a public register because it is confidential information, unless the public consultee is—

a

a public authority and the information is necessary for the exercise of its functions; or

b

a sewerage undertaker and the information relates to the release of any substance into a sewer vested in that undertaker.