30.—(1) Where a regional planning authority exercise their powers under section 179 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1) to have referred to them an application to which regulation 6 applies—
(a)the provisions of these Regulations other than regulation 7 shall apply to a regional planning authority as they apply to a planning authority;
(b)section 179(6) of the said 1973 Act shall have effect as if the period of 3 months referred to therein were a period of 4 months.
(2) In the application of these Regulations by a regional planning authority—
(a)in regulations 13(1) and 14(1) the words “the date of receipt of the application” shall have effect as if they referred to the date when the application was received to the regional planning authority;
(b)where it appears to the regional planning authority that a copy of the environmental statement has not been placed in Part I of the register in accordance with regulation 18(1)(a), the planning authority from which the application has been referred shall continue to comply with regulation 18(1)(a).
1973 c. 65; section 179 was substituted by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43), Schedule 3, paragraph 24, and was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63), Schedule 11, paragraph 61.