{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2010/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2010/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/3015",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Pre-inquiry meetings: notice, etc. in case of Welsh Ministers orders",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers shall, not later than 3 weeks after the relevant date, cause to be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land is situated a notice of their intention to cause a pre-inquiry meeting to be held.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers shall, not later than 8 weeks after the relevant date, serve an outline statement on each remaining objector.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may by notice in writing require—\n(a) any remaining objector; and\n(b) any other person who has notified them of that person’s intention or wish to appear at the inquiry,\nto serve, within 8 weeks of the date of the notice, an outline statement on them and on any other person specified in the notice.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers shall give not less than 3 weeks’ written notice of the meeting to—\n(a) each remaining objector; and\n(b) any other person whose presence at the meeting seems to them to be desirable.\n(5) The Welsh Ministers shall give notice of the date, time and place of the pre-inquiry meeting by taking one or more of the following steps —\n(a) fixing a notice—\n(i) to a conspicuous object or objects on or near the land; and where the land extends for more than five kilometres, at intervals of not more than five kilometres; and\n(ii) in at least one place in the locality in which the land is situated where public notices are usually posted; and\n(b) publishing a notice in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/3015/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:12.548006+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."
}