PART 9Unauthorised Development

Significant transboundary effects

41.  Regulation 53 shall apply to unauthorised EIA development as if—

(a)for regulation 53(1)(a) there were substituted—

(a)on consideration of an appeal under section 174 the Secretary of State is of the opinion that the matters which are alleged to constitute the breach of planning control comprise or include EIA development and that the development has or is likely to have significant effects on the environment in another EEA State; or

(b)in regulation 53(3)(a) the words “a copy of the application concerned” were replaced by the words “a description of the development concerned”;

(c)in regulation 53(3)(c) the words “to which that application relates” were omitted; and

(d)in regulation 53(6) the word “application” was replaced by the word “appeal”.