Planning and Building Regulations (Environmental Impact Statements), 1982.

A planning agency will not consider or decide statement upon the kind of scheme set out in article 2 unless an environmental impact statement has been prepared and attached to the scheme. In addition to the provisions of regulation 2, a representative of a minister in a planning agency or a planning agency presented with a scheme whose implementation may, in its opinion, have a significant impact upon environmental quality, may require the submitter of the scheme to prepare a statement and to submit it to the planning agency in addition to the scheme documentation submitted. Such requirement may be made at any stage of consideration of the scheme prior to its approval.