Article 4 Pre-inquiry meetings
If it appears to the authorising authority to be desirable, the authorising authority may cause a pre-inquiry meeting to be held and, where it does so —
(a)
the authorising authority shall give notice of its intention to hold a pre-inquiry meeting with the notice required under rule 3(2) or (3);
(b)
the pre-inquiry meeting (or, where there is to be more than one, the first pre-inquiry meeting) shall be held not later than 16 weeks after the relevant date; and
(c)
the procedures prescribed by rule 5 shall apply.