Appendix 1
S.I. 2019/279
Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019
1.The Committee has asked the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (“the Department”) for a memorandum on the following point:
This instrument replaces S.I. 2019/123 due to an error in that instrument. Was the free issue procedure applied? If so, why is there no headnote to that effect? If not, why not?
2.This instrument has been made on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (“DAERA”) in the absence of a Northern Ireland Executive.
3.The drafting error in S.I. 2019/123 was noticed at the time of registration. Due to the nature of the error, the use of a correction slip was considered inappropriate. Given that it had already been signed, it was decided that a new instrument would need to be made in order to revoke and replace S.I. 2019/123. Unfortunately, the free issue procedure was inadvertently not applied to the second instrument, for which the Department apologises.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
12 March 2019
Published: 22 March 2019