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Natural Environment Bill

Natural resource permits - Applying for natural resource permit - Permit authority may require further information

141: Request for report

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"Asking for a special report to help decide your natural resource permit application"

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You can ask for a report about your application for a natural resource permit. This can happen before a hearing or before a decision is made. You must be told about the report first and have a chance to agree or disagree. The permit authority can only ask for a report if they think it will help them make a good decision. They must consider how much the report will cost and how important the issue is. The report can look at the information you provided under section 140. If the report reviews your information, it must be done by an expert chosen by the permit authority. The expert can only look at how you worked out your information, not the information itself. The permit authority must follow the rules when asking for a report.

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Part 4Natural resource permits
Applying for natural resource permit: Permit authority may require further information

141Request for report

  1. A permit authority may commission a person to prepare a report on a matter relating to the application, including a matter relating to information provided by the applicant in the application or under section 140,—

  2. at any reasonable time before the hearing of an application for a natural resource permit or, if no hearing is held, before the decision to grant or refuse the application; and
    1. only if the applicant is notified before the permit authority commissions the report, and does not refuse, in accordance with the regulations, to agree to the commissioning of the report.

      1. The permit authority may notify the applicant that it wants to commission a report under subsection (1) only if it is satisfied that obtaining the report will ensure the permit authority has enough information to understand the implications of its decision, after considering—

      2. the cost and feasibility of obtaining the report; and
        1. the scale and significance of the matter to which the decision relates.

          1. A report commissioned under subsection (1) may be in the form of a review of the information provided by the applicant under section 140.

          2. If the report is a review of the information provided by the applicant,—

          3. it must be carried out by an expert appointed by the permit authority; and
            1. it must be limited to an assessment of the methodology used to reach the conclusion of that information.

              1. A permit authority that commissions a report under this section must do so in the prescribed manner.