The consent applicationU.K.

9.—(1) An application for consent (which shall include the environmental statement) shall be made to the Secretary of State.

(2) An applicant for consent shall provide to the Secretary of State such number of copies of the application as she may reasonably require.

(3) After the Secretary of State has received an application for consent in accordance with regulation 9(1) and (2) she shall—

(a)send a copy of the application to such of the consultation bodies as she thinks fit and inform them that they may make representations within six weeks from the date the application was received by them; and

(b)for the purpose of ensuring that members of the public concerned are given an opportunity to make representations before the application is determined, publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land [F1and on an appropriate website] a notice—

(i)announcing that the application has been made;

(ii)specifying an address at which copies of the application may be inspected free of charge and where anyone who wishes to obtain copies of the application may do so (for which a reasonable charge may be made) at all reasonable hours within six weeks from the date of publication of the notice; F2...

(iii)stating that any person wishing to make any representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the project for which consent is sought shall make them in writing to the Secretary of State at the address specified at paragraph (ii) above within six weeks from the date of publication of the notice.

[F3(iv)stating that, if consent is granted, it shall be subject to the conditions specified in regulation 13(11) and to any such additional conditions as the Secretary of State may think fit; and

(v)stating, where relevant, which of the other EEA States, the authorities referred to in Article 6(1) of the EIA Directive and the public concerned in any such EEA State, will be consulted on the application.]

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