{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3617",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Pre-inquiry meetings",
  "text": "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 —\n(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);\n(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\n(c) the procedures prescribed by rule 5 shall apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3617/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:38:21.828063+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."
}