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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002/regulation-43",
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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/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Date and notification of inquiry",
  "text": "(1) The date fixed by the Secretary of State for the holding of an inquiry shall, unless she considers such a date to be impracticable, be not later than—\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b), twenty two weeks after the start date; or\n(b) where a pre-inquiry meeting is held pursuant to regulation 41, eight weeks after the conclusion of that meeting.\n(2) Where the Secretary of State considers it impracticable to fix a date in accordance with paragraph (1), the date fixed shall be the earliest date after the expiry of the relevant period mentioned in that paragraph which she considers to be practicable.\n(3) Unless the Secretary of State agrees a lesser period of notice with the appellant and the Agency, she shall give to the appellant, the Agency and any persons who have made representations to the Secretary of State in respect of the appeal under regulation 21(c) not less than four weeks' written notice of the date, time and place fixed by her for the holding of an inquiry.\n(4) The Secretary of State may—\n(a) change the date fixed for the holding of an inquiry (whether or not the new date is within the relevant period mentioned in paragraph (1)); or\n(b) change the time or place for the holding of an inquiry.\n(5) Where, under paragraph (4)(a), the Secretary of State changes the date for the holding of an inquiry, paragraph (3) shall apply to the new date as it applied to the date originally fixed, and where, under paragraph (4)(b), she changes the time or place for the holding of an inquiry, she shall give such notice of the change as appears to her to be reasonable.\n(6) The Secretary of State may require the Agency to publish, not less than two weeks before the date fixed for the holding of an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the appeal land is situated; and the Secretary of State shall ensure that the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency makes a copy of such notice available for inspection on a website which it maintains until the appeal is determined.\n(7) Every notice of an inquiry published pursuant to paragraph (6) shall contain—\n(a) a statement of the date, time and place of the inquiry and of the powers enabling the Secretary of State to determine the appeal in question; and\n(b) a brief description of the appeal land and of the grounds of appeal.",
  "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/43",
    "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."
}