The Planning (Electronic Communications) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

2.  After regulation 8 (claims for compensation), there shall be inserted—

“Use of electronic communications

8A.— (1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where a person uses electronic communications for any of the following purposes—

(a) making an application under regulation 2 for listed building consent or approval of the Department required by a condition imposed on a grant of listed building consent;

(b) making an application under regulation 5, for consent to execute works without compliance with conditions previously attached;

(c) making a claim for compensation under regulation 8.

(2) In a case to which this paragraph applies, and except where a contrary intention appears, the person making the application or claim shall be taken to have agreed—

(a) to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the application or claim (as the case may be) which are capable of being effected using such communications;

(b) that the address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application or claim;

(c) that the person’s deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until he gives notice in writing that he wishes to revoke the agreement and such withdrawal or revocation shall be final and shall take effect on a date specified by him in the notice but not less than seven days after the date on which the notice is given.

(3) The requirement in regulation 2(1)(b) that an application for listed building consent shall be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the building is satisfied where the applicant identifies the building on an electronic map provided by the Department and for this purpose a map is taken to be provided where the Department has published it on its website.”.