Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022
Coordination of EIA with planning authority or Board for combined application for licence
42. (1) Section 25 shall apply to a combined application for a licence under section 37(1) that comprises a revised abstraction that involves development or proposed development as it applies to an application for a licence under section 21(1), subject to—
(a) the following modifications:
(i) a reference to section 21(1) shall be read as a reference to section 37(1);
(ii) a reference to an abstraction shall be read as a reference to a revised abstraction;
(iii) a reference to section 27 shall be read as a reference to section 44;
(iv) a reference to paragraph (a) or (b) of section 23(1) shall be read as a reference to paragraph (a) or (b) of section 40(3), as appropriate,
and
(b) any other necessary modifications.
(2) Where section 25 does not apply to a combined application for a licence, section 33 shall apply to such an application as it applies to an application for a licence under section 29, subject to the modification that a reference to section 35 shall be read as a reference to section 44 and subject to any other necessary modifications.