The Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Amendment of the 1999 Regulations

4.  In regulation 2 (Interpretation)—

(a) before the definition of “appropriate local planning authority”, insert—

““additional information” means information which—

(a)

is made available to the Secretary of State—

(i)

after the date on which the application for consent accompanied by an environmental statement is received by the Secretary of State; and

(ii)

before determination by the Secretary of State of the application for consent pursuant to regulation 14(1) below;

(b)

is of material relevance to the environmental statement; and

(c)

is not further information or supplementary information;

“application for consent” means an application made by a gas transporter to the Secretary of State for his consent to the carrying out of proposed pipe-line works;”;

(b) in the definition of “the consultation bodies”, after sub-paragraph (d), insert—

“and

(e) any other body designated by statutory provision as having specific environmental responsibilities which the Secretary of State considers is likely to have an interest in the pipe-line works in question;”;

(c) for the definition of “EEA State” substitute—

• ““EEA State” means a member State, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein;”;

(d) before the definition of “gas”, insert—

““further information” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 11(1);”;

(e) before the definition of “in”, insert—

““the Gazette” means—

(a)

in relation to proposed pipe-line works along a route lying wholly in England and Wales, the London Gazette;

(b)

in relation to proposed pipe-line works along a route lying wholly in Scotland, the Edinburgh Gazette; and

(c)

in relation to pipe-line works along a route lying partly in England and Wales and partly in Scotland, the London Gazette and the Edinburgh Gazette;”; and

(f) before the definition of “working width”, insert—

““supplementary information” means information which is—

(a)

provided to the Secretary of State by the applicant in order to supplement the environmental statement; and

(b)

submitted to the Secretary of State no later than 14 days after the date of receipt by the Secretary of State of the environmental statement; and”.