{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-by-public-authorities-inquiries-procedure-scotland-rules-1998/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-by-public-authorities-inquiries-procedure-scotland-rules-1998/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2313",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase by Public Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) (Scotland) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-by-public-authorities-inquiries-procedure-scotland-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Preliminary action – acquiring authority and government departments",
  "text": "(1) The acquiring authority, not later than 2 weeks after the relevant date, shall (unless it has already done so)–\n(a) serve on each statutory objector a written statement of its reasons for making the order; and\n(b) send a copy of the statement to the Secretary of State, and to any government department which has expressed in writing to the acquiring authority a view with respect to the proposals contained in the order where reference to that view has been included in the statement.\n(2) Where an acquiring authority considers a written representation by a government department to be relevant to that authority’s submissions at the inquiry, it shall not later than 2 weeks after receipt either of that representation or of the relevant notice (whichever is the later) send notification to the government department concerned that an inquiry is to be held; and the government department shall (unless it has already done so) supply to the acquiring authority a written statement setting out in detail the reasons for that representation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2313/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:27.964875+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."
}