{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1710",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to the Countryside (Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Site inspections",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient to do so, she may arrange for an inspection of the appeal land to be made by an inspector; and the Secretary of State shall arrange for such an inspection to be made if so requested by the appellant or the Agency in relation to an appeal against the showing of any land as open country on a provisional map.\n(2) Where the inspector intends to make an inspection under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall ask the appellant and the Agency whether they wish to be present or be represented.\n(3) Where the appellant or the Agency has indicated that they wish to be present or be represented, the inspector shall give the appellant and the Agency reasonable notice of the date and time of the inspection and shall afford the appellant and the Agency, or their representatives, the opportunity of being present during the inspection.\n(4) The inspector shall not be bound to defer an inspection if the appellant or the Agency, or their representative, is not present at the appointed time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1710/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:39.193712+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."
}