28. Section 177F of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (2)(a)—

(i) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) A person may request the Board to give him or her an opinion referred to in subparagraph (ii) in relation to a development—

(I) before he or she makes an application for substitute consent in respect of the development, or

(II) after he or she has made such an application, where required by the Board under section 177K(2CA) to submit a remedial environmental impact assessment report.”,

(ii) in subparagraph (ii)—

(I) by the substitution of “the Board shall, when requested to do so by the person referred to in subparagraph (i),” for “the Board shall,”,

(II) by the substitution of “the person” for “the applicant”, and

(III) by the insertion of “in relation to the development” after “remedial environmental impact assessment report”,

and

(iii) in subparagraph (iii), by the substitution of “the person referred to in subparagraph (i)” for “the applicant”,

and

(b) in subsection (2)(b), by the substitution of “The person referred to in paragraph (a)(i)” for “An applicant”.