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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-appeals-procedures-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-appeals-procedures-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/1794",
  "legislation_title": "The Countryside Access (Appeals Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-appeals-procedures-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Proofs of evidence",
  "text": "(1) Any person entitled to take part in an inquiry who proposes to give, or to call another person to give, evidence at the inquiry by reading a proof of evidence, must:\n(a) send two copies, in the case of the respondent and the appellant, or three copies in the case of any other person, of the proof of evidence together with any written summary, to the National Assembly; and\n(b) simultaneously send copies of these to any interested person to whom the National Assembly may require them to be supplied,\nand the National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receipt, send a copy of each proof of evidence together with any summary to the respondent and the appellant.\n(2) No written summary is required where the proof of evidence proposed to be read contains no more than 1,500 words.\n(3) The proof of evidence and any summary must be received by the National Assembly no later than:\n(a) 4 weeks before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry; or\n(b) where a timetable has been arranged pursuant to regulation 21 which specifies a date by which the proof of evidence and any summary must be received by the National Assembly, that date.\n(4) The National Assembly must send to the appointed person, as soon as practicable after receipt, any proof of evidence together with any summary sent to it in accordance with this regulation and received by it within the relevant period specified in this Regulation.\n(5) Where a written summary is provided in accordance with paragraph (1), only that summary shall be read at the inquiry, unless the appointed person permits or requires otherwise.\n(6) Any person required by this regulation to send copies of a proof of evidence to the National Assembly must send with them the same number of copies of the whole, or the relevant part, of any document referred to in the proof of evidence, unless a copy of the document or part of the document in question is already available for inspection pursuant to regulation 19(12).\n(7) The respondent must afford to any person who so requests a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of any document sent to or by the respondent in accordance with this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1794/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:13:37.357355+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."
}