2. After regulation 6 (claims for compensation and purchase notices), there shall be inserted the following regulation—
“Use of electronic communications
6A.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where a person uses electronic communications for any of the following purposes—
(a)making an application under regulation 3 for conservation area consent;
(b)making a claim for compensation or serving a purchase notice under regulation 6.
(2) In a case to which this paragraph applies, and except where a contrary intention appears, the person making the application or claim or giving or serving the notice shall be taken to have agreed—
(a)to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the application, claim or notice (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, claim or notice;
(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) In regulation 3(1) (applications) the requirement that an application for conservation area consent—
(a)shall be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the building shall be 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, and
(b)shall be accompanied by two further copies of the form, plans and drawings shall not apply.”.