PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

Provision of information
15
1
Subject to paragraph (2), the consultative bodies (and any other person notified in accordance with regulation 11(2)(a)(ii)) shall, if requested by the applicant (or prospective applicant), or may without such a request, enter into consultation with the applicant to determine whether they have in their possession any information which they or the applicant consider relevant to the preparation of an environmental statement and, if they have any such information, they shall make it available to the applicant.
2
Nothing in these Regulations shall require the disclosure of information which is subject to an obligation of confidentiality under the law of Scotland (including any information which is capable of being treated as confidential or must be so treated under regulation 4 of the Environmental Information Regulations 1992 ).

Service of notices
16
Any notice or other document to be sent, served or given under these Regulations may be sent, served or given either–
a
by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served or to whom it is to be given;
b
by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of that person, or, in a case where an address for service has been given by that person, at that address;
c
by sending it in a prepaid registered letter, or by the recorded delivery service, addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode, or, in a case where an address for service has been given by that person, at that address; or
d
in the case of an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at its registered or principal office, or by sending it in a prepaid registered letter, or by the recorded delivery service, addressed to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at that office.

Revocation, transitional and savings
17
1
Subject to paragraph (2), Parts I, III and VII of the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988 are hereby revoked.
2
The Regulations referred to in paragraph (1) shall continue to apply to any application for a section 36 consent or a section 37 consent within the meaning of those Regulations which was received before the date on which these Regulations come into force.
S.I. 1992/3240, as amended by S.I. 1998/1447 and 1999/672.
S.I. 1988/1221 as amended by S.I. 1994/2012, S.I. 1996/972 and 1997/1870.