The Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999

Application to court by person aggrieved

16.—(1) On the application of any person aggrieved by–

(a) the grant of consent in respect of any proposed pipe-line works under regulation 14 above (consent to pipe-line works), or

(b) the attaching by the Secretary of State of a condition to such a consent under paragraph (1) of that regulation,

the court may grant an order quashing the grant of consent or, as the case may be, the attaching by the Secretary of State of the condition where it is satisfied that the consent was granted or, as the case may be, the condition was attached in contravention of regulation 14(1)(b) above (consideration of environmental statement etc.) or that the interests of the applicant have been substantially prejudiced by a failure to comply with any other requirement of these Regulations.

(2) An application to the court under this regulation shall be made no later than 6 weeks after the date of last publication by the public gas transporter of details of the consent or, as the case may be, the relevant condition pursuant to regulation 14(5) above.

(3) The court may by interim order, pending the determination of any question referred to in paragraph (1) above, stay the operation of the consent or, as the case may be, the relevant condition on such terms as it may think fit.