S.L. 549.44 Art. 12Notification to owners.

(1) The competent authority shall also notify any one of the owners of:

(a) any site which has been designated as a new SAC or

SPA; or

(b) any extension of an existing SAC or SPA, of its inclusion in the list, and shall also affix such a copy of the notice on site. If none of such owners is known, or if it is not reasonably possible to effect service on such owners, the said notice shall only be affixed on site and no service on such owners as aforesaid need be made: Provided that for extensions of existing SACs or SPAs the notification process shall be limited to those sites within the extension area.

(2) The requirement to notify owners of a site as provided under sub-regulation (1) shall not apply for sites for which such a notification process had already been carried out.

(3) The protected site list shall be registered in an index held for the purpose specified in subregulation (1). The said index shall be held in an electronic form in such a way that research to determine the status of a site may be carried out. The Authority shall keep a copy of the said index in the office of the Land Registry and shall issue a certificate, which indicates the status of a particular site on the payment of such fee as may be prescribed.

(4) For the purpose of this regulation, "site" shall also include a single property or more than one property, irrespective of who is the owner of that property, which forms part of the site, which is, designated a SAC or SPA.

(5) The competent authority or site managers as authorised by the competent authority and, or holding a management agreement in line with regulations 15 and 16, shall also affix an information panel at any site declared as a SAC or SPA to provide general information on the site.