{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002/regulation-38",
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  "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/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Notification of decision—appeals determined by the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a hearing has been held for the purposes of any appeal determined by the Secretary of State.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall notify her decision on the appeal, and her reasons for reaching it, in writing to—\n(a) the appellant and the Agency; and\n(b) any other person who—\n(i) appeared at the hearing, or\n(ii) has made representations to the Secretary of State under regulation 21(c).\n(3) Where a copy of the inspector’s report is not sent with the notification of the decision, the notification shall be accompanied by a statement of his conclusions and of any recommendations made by him; and if a person entitled to be notified of the decision has not received a copy of that report, he shall be supplied with a copy of it on written application to the Secretary of State.\n(4) In this regulation, “report” does not include any documents appended to the inspector’s report; but any person who has received a copy of the report may apply to the Secretary of State in writing for an opportunity to inspect any such documents, and the Secretary of State shall afford him that opportunity.\n(5) A person applying to the Secretary of State under paragraph (3) or (4) shall ensure that his application is received by the Secretary of State within four weeks and six weeks, respectively, of the date of the decision of the Secretary of State.\n(6) The Secretary of State shall ensure that a copy of the notification given under paragraph (2) is available for inspection on the website maintained by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency for the period during which the provisional map covering the land to which the appeal relates remains current.",
  "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/38",
    "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."
}