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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-access-appeals-procedures-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notifying the parties of the appeal procedure",
  "text": "(1) The National Assembly must, no earlier than the end of the period specified in paragraph (2), give notice to the appellant and to the respondent of the form which the appeal is to take.\n(2) Notice under paragraph (1) must not be given before:\n(a) the expiry of 21 days from the date specified in the notice or notices given or published under regulation 6(1)(a) or (b) as being the date by which representations to the National Assembly could be made; or\n(b) in the case of an appeal under section 6 of the Act, the expiry of three months from the date of issue of the provisional map to which the appeal relates,\nwhichever is the later.\n(3) The notice given under paragraph (1) must be dated and must state whether the appeal is to take the form of:\n(a) a local inquiry;\n(b) a hearing; or\n(c) neither (a) nor (b), and will therefore be determined on the basis of written representations.\n(4) The date of the notice given under paragraph (1) is the “starting date” for the purposes of these Regulations in relation to the appeal to which it refers and the notice must contain a statement to that effect.\n(5) If the appeal is to take the form of a local inquiry, and the National Assembly intends to hold a pre-inquiry meeting, the notice given under paragraph (1) must also comply with the requirements of regulation 18(2)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/142",
      "affecting_title": "The Countryside Access (Exclusion or Restriction of Access) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/1270",
      "affecting_title": "The Countryside Access (Means of Access, Appeals etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1794/regulation/5",
    "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."
}