Article 15 Service of statements of case, documents and precognitions

Any person who serves a statement of case on the acquiring authority shall not be obliged to serve with it a copy of any document, or of the relevant part of any document, if a copy of the document or part of the document in question is already available for inspection pursuant to paragraph (2).

The acquiring authority shall afford to any person who so requests a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of any statement of case (or any part thereof) or other document which, or a copy of which, has been served on them in accordance with this rule or rule 10 or 11 or of their statement of case (or any part thereof); and shall specify in their statement of case the time and place at which the opportunity will be afforded.

Where any party intends to rely on or put in evidence any documents, that party shall, not later than 4 weeks before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry, provide copies of those documents (or the relevant parts of those documents) to–

and the acquiring authority shall, for the purposes of compliance by them with the duty imposed by paragraph (2) in respect of their statement of case, make such statement available by said date.

The reporter, on the application of a party, may vary any time limit imposed on that party by rule 9, 10, 11 or 14 or by paragraph (3) of this rule.