Registers of notifications: transitory provisions
12(1)This paragraph has effect until the day on which section 22(1) comes into force.
(2)SNH must compile and maintain, in respect of each planning authority, a register containing—
(a)copies of each SSSI notification which relates wholly or partly to land situated within the district of the authority,
(b)copies of all—
(i)notifications given under section 5(1), 6(5), 7(3), 8(1) or 9(1),
(ii)notices given under paragraph 10 or 15 of schedule 1,
in relation to the SSSI notification, and
(c)such other information as SNH considers appropriate in relation to the SSSI notification.
(3)Each planning authority must keep a copy of the register relating to its district available at its principal office for public inspection free of charge, and may similarly keep, at such of its other offices as it thinks fit, a copy of such part of the register as appears to it to relate to the area in which the office is situated.
(4)A register maintained under sub-paragraph (2) and a copy of all or part of a register kept under sub-paragraph (3) may be in electronic form.