Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

Submission of information for purposes of Chapter 4

43. (1) The Agency may give notice to the applicant for a licence under section 37 (1) requiring him or her to submit, within the period specified in the notice, any further information that the Agency considers necessary—

(a) to consider an application under section 37 (1), or

(b) to enable the Agency to carry out a retrospective EIA or an EIA, as the case may be.

(2) Where information required by the Agency under subsection (1) or section 23 (6), as modified by section 40 , is not submitted by the applicant within the period specified, or any further period as may be specified by the Agency, the combined application for a licence shall be deemed to be withdrawn.