79.— Section 99F of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (inserted by section 15 of the Protection of the Environment Act 2003) is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) by the insertion of “or substitute consent, within the meaning of section 177A,” after “permission under section 34”,

(b) in subsection (2)—

(i) by the insertion of “or refuse a grant of substitute consent, as defined in section 177A” after “under section 34”,

(ii) by the substitution of “on environmental grounds or on the grounds of adverse effects on the integrity of a European site (as defined in that Act),” for “on environmental grounds,”,

(c) in subsection (3) by the insertion of “remedial environmental impact statement or remedial Natura impact statement (as defined in section 177T of the Act of 2000) as the case may be” after “environmental impact statement”, and

(d) in subsection (9), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a)—

“(aa) a substitute consent, as defined in section 177T of the Act of 2000, or”.