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The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Environmental Impact Assessment and other Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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Transitional provisions in relation to the 1999 Offshore Regulations

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23.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and (3), the following must be dealt with under the 1999 Offshore Regulations as if they had not been amended by these Regulations—

(a)any application for consent or any application for the agreement of the Secretary of State in respect of a relevant project as referred to in regulation 5;

(b)any application for a direction made under regulation 6(1) or (2);

(c)any application for an opinion made under regulation 7;

(d)any request for—

(i)the approval of the OGA of any proposals for the carrying out of a relevant project referred to in regulation 11(1);

(ii)the approval of the OGA to exercise powers under a licence to impose a requirement on a licensee to carry out a relevant project referred to in regulation 11(4); or

(iii)the agreement of the Secretary of State to allow the OGA to approve such proposals mentioned in paragraph (i) or exercise such powers mentioned in paragraph (ii); or

(e)any information about a relevant project received from another EEA State under regulation 12A,

received by the OGA or by the Secretary of State before these Regulations come into force.

(2) This regulation is subject to regulation 13 (exempt projects).

(3) Where paragraph (1) applies in respect of an application for an opinion under regulation 7, the 1999 Offshore Regulations as unamended by these regulations shall apply for all purposes, save for regulation 13, in respect of the relevant project to which the opinion relates.

(4) In this regulation, a reference to a numbered regulation is to that regulation so numbered in the 1999 Offshore Regulations.

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