The Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Determination of appeals by written representations

16.—(1) This regulation applies to an appeal which is to be determined by written representations.

(2) Within 42 days from the date of service on the appellant of notice that the appeal is to be determined by written representations, the appellant must either serve on the National Assembly any further representations that the appellant wishes to be considered by the National Assembly or must notify the National Assembly that they wish to rely on the information already supplied by them, and the National Assembly must either send to the interested parties copies of any further representations made by the appellant or must notify them that the appellant does not intend to make further representations as the case may be.

(3) Any of the interested parties who wish to make representations in respect of the appeal must, within 28 days of service on them of further representations made by the appellant or of notification that the appellant does not wish to make further representations, as the case may be, serve such representations on the National Assembly and the National Assembly must send copies of the representations served upon it to the appellant and to the other interested parties.

(4) The National Assembly must allow the appellant and the other interested parties a period of time in which to respond to representations made in accordance with paragraph (3) above, which period shall be no less than 14 days from the date of service on them of such representations.

(5) No earlier than the expiry of the period specified in paragraph (4) above, the National Assembly or the person appointed to determine the appeal, as the case may be, must determine the appeal and must notify the decision and the reasons for it to the appellant and to the interested parties.