22.—(1) An applicant or appellant notified under regulation 18(21) must, within 7 days of the date of that notification, provide to the relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be), such number of copies of the environmental statement as are specified in the notice given under that regulation.
(2) A relevant mineral planning authority must, within 14 days of the date of a notice given by it under regulation 18(21)—
(a)send to the Welsh Ministers, two copies of the environmental statement to which the notification relates and a copy of the relevant application and of any documents submitted with the application;
(b)send to each of the consultation bodies a copy of the environmental statement to which the notice relates; and
(c)give written notification to each consultation body stating that any representation it wishes to make in response to the consultation regarding the application must be made in writing to the relevant mineral planning authority within 28 days of the date of the notice (or such longer period as may be agreed between the relevant mineral planning authority and the consultation body).
(3) The Welsh Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable following the giving of notice by them under regulation 18(21)—
(a)send to each of the consultation bodies a copy of the environmental statement to which the notification relates;
(b)give written notification to each consultation body stating that any representation it wishes to make in response to the consultation regarding the application must be made in writing to the Welsh Ministers within 28 days of the date of the notice (or such longer period as may be agreed between the Welsh Ministers and the consultation body); and
(c)send to the relevant mineral planning authority a copy of the environmental statement to which the notice relates.
(4) Where a relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers give written notification under regulation 18(21), the authority or, as the case may be, the Welsh Ministers, must suspend consideration of the application or appeal in question until the expiry of the relevant period applicable in accordance with regulation 19(1); and must not determine the application or appeal until the expiry of 21 days following the date on which that relevant period ends.