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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-provisional-and-conclusive-maps-england-regulations-2002/regulation-58",
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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/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Changes of procedure",
  "text": "(1) If, at any time before the Secretary of State or the inspector, in either case under regulation 27, notifies her or (as the case may be) his decision on an appeal, the appellant, the Agency or the Secretary of State wishes the appeal to be determined no longer by way of written representations but instead by way of a hearing or inquiry, the Secretary of State shall arrange for the appeal to proceed by way of a hearing or inquiry.\n(2) Paragraphs (3) and (4) apply at any time before the Secretary of State, under regulation 38 or 54, or an inspector, under regulation 39 or 55, notifies her or (as the case may be) his decision on an appeal.\n(3) If the appellant or the Agency wishes an appeal to be determined no longer by way of a hearing or inquiry but instead by way of written representations, the Secretary of State shall consult the other party, and, if both that party and the Secretary of State agree to such a change in procedure, the Secretary of State shall arrange for the appeal to be determined by way of written representations.\n(4) If the appellant, the Agency or the Secretary of State wishes an appeal to be determined—\n(i) no longer by way of a hearing but instead by way of an inquiry, or\n(ii) no longer by way of an inquiry but instead by way of a hearing,\nthe Secretary of State shall, after consulting the other party or, where the Secretary of State wishes the appeal procedure to be changed, both the parties, decide whether the hearing or inquiry (as the case may be) should proceed no further and an inquiry or hearing (as appropriate) be held instead.\n(5) Where the appeal procedure is changed by the Secretary of State under this regulation—\n(a) the Secretary of State shall—\n(i) notify the appellant, the Agency and any other person who has made representations in respect of the appeal of such change; and\n(ii) ensure that a copy of such notice is available for inspection on a website maintained by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency until the appeal is determined; and\n(b) in relation to the conduct of the appeal thereafter—\n(i) any step taken or thing done under these Regulations in relation to the former appeal procedure which could have been done under any corresponding provision of these Regulations relating to the new appeal procedure shall have effect as if taken or done under that corresponding provision; and\n(ii) the Secretary of State may give any consequential directions as to the procedure to be applied as she may consider necessary.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1710/regulation/58",
    "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."
}