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Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2012 (S.91)

The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1994 No. 2012 (S.91)

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, SCOTLAND

ELECTRICITY

ROADS AND BRIDGES, SCOTLAND

LAND DRAINAGE

The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

Made19th July 1994
Laid before Parliament29th July 1994
Coming into force19th August 1994

    The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2, section 26B of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972[3] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
    Citation, commencement and interpretation
        1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 19th August 1994.

        (2)  In these Regulations "the 1988 Regulations" means the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988[4].

        (3)  Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation, Schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the regulation, Schedule, paragraph or sub-paragraph so numbered in the 1988 Regulations.
    Amendments to the 1988 Regulations
        2.    The Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect for the purpose of amending the 1988 Regulations.
    Transitional provision
        3.—(1)  The amendments made to-
       (a) regulations 4, 16(6), 18 and 21 and Schedule 2 shall not apply to an application for planning permission;
       (b) regulation 40 shall not apply to an electricity application within the meaning of Part III of the 1988 Regulations; and
       (c) regulation 53 shall not apply to a specific development application within the meaning of Part IV of the 1988 Regulations,
    where such application for planning permission, electricity application or specific development application as the case may be was made before the coming into force of these Regulations.

        (2)  The amendments made to regulation 59 shall not apply in relation to any environmental statement where copies have been provided in terms of regulation 59(1) before the coming into force of these Regulations.
    Amendments of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984
        4.    The Roads (Scotland) Act 1984[5] shall be amended as follows:-
       (a) in section 20A(2), for the words "If he determines" there shall be substituted the words "Where it appears to him"; and after the words ", a statement" there shall be inserted the following words:-
      "identifying, describing and assessing in an appropriate manner, in the light of each individual case and in accordance with Articles 4 to 11 of the Directive, the direct and indirect effects of the project on the factors mentioned in Article 3 of the Directive and";
       (b) in section 55A(2)[6], for the words "If he determines" there shall be substituted the words "Where it appears to him";
       (c) at the end of section 55A(6)(b), there shall be added the following words:-
        "and in his decision shall state that he has considered the matters set out in subsection (6)(a) above.";
       (d) after paragraph 7(1A) of Schedule 1 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:-
        "  (1B)  When the Secretary of State issues his decision as to whether or not to make the order he shall state that he has considered the matters set out in paragraph 7(1A) above.";
       (e) after paragraph 13(1A) of Schedule 1 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:-
        "  (1B)  When the Secretary of State issues his decision as to whether or not to make the scheme, he shall state that he has considered the matters set out in paragraph 13(1A) above.".



Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh

19th July 1994




Notes:

[1] S.I. 1988/785.

[2] 1972 c. 68.

[3] 1972 c. 52; section 26B was inserted by section 48 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34).

[4] S.I. 1988/1221; amended by S.I. 1990/526.

[5] 1984 c. 54, amended by S.I. 1988/1221.

[6] Section 55A(2) was amended by section 42(2) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22).

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