- Scottish Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1
The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999
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| Made | 8th July 1999 | ||
| Laid before the Scottish Parliament | 9th July 1999 | ||
| Coming into force | 1st August 1999 |
| 1. | Citation, commencement and extent |
| 2. | Interpretation |
| 3. | Prohibition on granting planning permission without consideration of environmental information |
| 4. | General provisions relating to screening |
| 5. | Requests for screening opinions of the planning authority |
| 6. | Requests for screening directions of the Scottish Ministers |
| 7. | Application made to a planning authority without an environmental statement |
| 8. | Application referred to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement |
| 9. | Appeal to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement |
| 10. | Scoping opinions of the planning authority |
| 11. | Scoping directions of the Scottish Ministers |
| 12. | Procedure to facilitate preparation of environmental statements |
| 13. | Publicity for environmental statement |
| 14. | Consultation where environmental statement received by planning authority |
| 15. | Copies of environmental statement for the Scottish Ministers |
| 16. | Consultation where environmental statement received by the Scottish Ministers |
| 17. | Copies of environmental statement for the public |
| 18. | Charges for copies of environmental statements |
| 19. | Further information and evidence relating to environmental statements |
| 20. | Availability of opinions, directions etc. for inspection |
| 21. | Duties to inform the public and the Scottish Ministers of final decisions |
| 22. | Development by planning authority - preliminary |
| 23. | Provision of information to planning authority |
| 24. | Publicity for environmental statement prepared by planning authority |
| 25. | Granting of planning permission to planning authority |
| 26. | Intimation of decision |
| 27. | Restriction of grant of permission by old simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise zone orders |
| 28. | Restriction of grant of permission by new simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise zone orders |
| 29. | Prohibition on the grant of planning permission for unauthorised EIA development |
| 30. | Screening opinions of the planning authority |
| 31. | Screening directions of the Scottish Ministers |
| 32. | Provision of information |
| 33. | Appeal to the Scottish Ministers without a screening opinion or screening direction |
| 34. | Appeal to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement |
| 35. | Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to the Scottish Ministers |
| 36. | Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements |
| 37. | Publicity for environmental statements or further information |
| 38. | Public inspection of documents |
| 39. | Unauthorised development with significant transboundary effects |
| 40. | Development in Scotland likely to have significant effects in another EEA State |
| 41. | Projects in another EEA State likely to have significant transboundary effects |
| 42. | Service of notices etc. |
| 43. | Application to the Court of Session |
| 44. | Hazardous waste and material change of use |
| 45. | Extension of the period for an authority's decision on a planning application |
| 46. | Extension of the power to provide in a development order for the giving of directions as respects the manner in which planning applications are dealt with |
| 47. | Miscellaneous and consequential amendments |
| 48. | General |
| 49. | Sections 20A and 20B |
| 50. | Sections 55A and 55B |
| 51. | Section 151 |
| 52. | Schedule 1 |
| 53. | Application |
| 54. | Application |
| 55. | Interpretation |
| 56. | Request for the opinion of the Scottish Ministers on the information to be supplied under this Part |
| 57. | Prohibition on making an improvement order without consideration of environmental information |
| 58. | Provision of information |
| 59. | Submission and publication of environmental statement |
| 60. | Further information respecting environmental statement |
| 61. | Confidentiality |
| 62. | Charges |
| 63. | Amendment of private legislation general orders |
| 64. | Revocation of statutory instruments and transitional provisions |
| Schedule 1 | Descriptions of development for the purposes of the definition of "Schedule 1 development" |
| Schedule 2 | Descriptions of development and applicable thresholds and criteria for the purposes of the definition of "Schedule 2 development" |
| Schedule 3 | Selection criteria for screening Schedule 2 development |
| Schedule 4 | Information for inclusion in environmental statements |
| Schedule 5 | Notice under regulation 13 |
| Schedule 6 | Notice under regulation 19 |
| Schedule 7 | Revocations |
