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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a12-chelmsford-to-a120-widening-development-consent-order-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/60",
  "legislation_title": "The A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening Development Consent Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a12-chelmsford-to-a120-widening-development-consent-order-2024",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Timing of consultation",
  "text": "(1) With respect to any requirement which requires the undertaker to consult another party (“the consultee”), the undertaker must, subject to sub-paragraph (2), provide the consultee with not less than 28 days beginning with the start date to respond to the consultation.\n(2) If no later than the expiry of 21 days beginning with the start date, a consultee requests more time to respond to the consultation than was given under paragraph (1), the undertaker may consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to an extension of that period so that the consultee has a longer period to respond (such period to be not less than 42 days but no more than 56 days, beginning with the start date).\n(3) In this paragraph, “the start date” is the day following the date on which the consultee received the document being consulted on.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 26 in force at 9.2.2024, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/60/schedule/2/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:52.104814+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}