# The Compulsory Purchase by Ministers (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1994, Article 5: Procedure where the Minister causes pre-inquiry meeting to be held


(1) The Minister may cause a pre-inquiry meeting (“a meeting”) to be held if it appears to him desirable and where he does so the following paragraphs apply.
(2) The Minister shall serve with the relevant notice a notification of his intention to cause a meeting to be held.
(3) The Minister shall, not later than 3 weeks after the relevant date, cause to be published in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land is situated a notice of his intention to cause a meeting to be held.
(4) The Minister shall, not later than 8 weeks after the relevant date, serve on each statutory objector his outline statement.
(5) The Minister may by notice in writing require—
(a) any statutory objector, and
(b) any other person who has notified the Minister of any intention or wish to appear at the inquiry
within 8 weeks of the date of such notice to serve on him and on any other person specified in such notice, an outline statement.
(6) A meeting shall be held not later than 16 weeks after the relevant date.
(7) The Minister shall give not less than 3 weeks written notice of the date, time and location of the meeting to each statutory objector and any other person whose presence at the meeting seems to him to be desirable.
(8) The inspector shall preside at the meeting and shall determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed; and he may require any person present at the meeting who, in his opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave and may refuse to permit that person to return or to attend any further meeting, or may permit him to return or attend only on such conditions as he may specify.
(9) Where a meeting has been held pursuant to paragraph (1), the inspector may hold a further meeting.He shall arrange for such notice to be given of a further meeting as appears to him necessary and paragraph (8) shall apply to such a meeting.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3264/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-by-ministers-inquiries-procedure-rules-1994/article-5
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