Environmental Impact Assessment

L.N. 448 of 2020

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Environmental Impact Assessment

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55(2)

of the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Environment,

Climate Change and Planning, after consultation with the Environment

and Resources Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Environmental Impact

Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Environmental Impact

Assessment Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 20 of the principal

regulations, the words "relevant information and clarifications" shall

be substituted by the words "relevant information and clarifications:"

and immediately thereafter there shall be added the following new

proviso

"Provided that in the case of a pandemic, epidemic,

natural disaster, armed conflict, declaration of a national

emergency or public danger, or any other event of force majeure,

such public hearing may alternatively be held by means of

electronic or other viable means of communication as the

Authority deems appropriate, and any such hearing held by using

such means shall have the same effect at law as a hearing held

physically;".

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