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The Planning (Development Plans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 shall be amended in accordance with Schedule 2.
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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 22nd June 2006.
Marianne Fleming
A senior officer of the
Department

SCHEDULE 1
Article 6
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SCHEDULE 2
Article 7
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(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a) after the definition of “the Directive” there shall be inserted the following definition—“
 “electronic communication” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 of the Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.”;
(b) in the definition of “local advertisement”, after the words “replacement of a development plan;” there shall be inserted “and where the Department maintains a website for the purpose of advertisement, by publication of the notice on the website;”.
(3) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—“
(4) In these Regulations, and in relation to the use of electronic communications for any purpose of these Regulations which is capable of being carried out electronically—
(a) the expression “address” includes any number or address used for the purpose of such communications;
(b) references to notices or other documents or to copies of such things include references to such documents or copies of them in electronic form.
(5) Paragraphs (6) to (9) apply where an electronic communication is used by a person for the purpose of fulfilling any requirement in these Regulations to give or send any notice or other document to any other person (“the recipient”).
(6) The requirement shall be taken to be fulfilled where the notice or other document transmitted by means of electronic communication is—
(a) capable of being accessed by the recipient;
(b) legible in all material respects; and
(c) sufficiently permanent to be used for subsequent reference.
(7) In paragraph (6), “legible in all material respects” means that the information contained in the notice or document is available to the recipient to no lesser extent than it would be if sent or given by means of a document in printed form.
(8) Where the electronic communication is received by the recipient outside the recipient’s business hours, it shall be taken to have been received on the next working day; and for this purpose “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.
(9) A requirement in these Regulations that any document should be in writing is fulfilled where that document meets the criteria in paragraph (6), and “written” and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly.”.
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(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person uses electronic communications for any of the following purposes—
(a) making representations about proposals under regulation 3;
(b) making objections to the making, alteration, etc. of a development plan under regulation 4;
(c) making representations about an objection under regulation 4A.
(2) In a case to which this paragraph applies, and except where a contrary intention appears, the person making the objection or representation shall be taken to have agreed—
(a) to the use of electronic communications for all purposes relating to the objection or representation (as the case may be) which are capable of being effected using such communications;
(b) that the address for the purpose of such communications is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the objection or representation;
(c) that the person’s deemed agreement under this paragraph shall subsist until he gives notice in writing that he wishes to revoke the agreement and such withdrawal or revocation shall be final and shall take effect on a date specified by him in the notice but not less than seven days after the date on which the notice is given.”.
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SCHEDULE 4
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SCHEDULE 5
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SCHEDULE 6
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SCHEDULE 8
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