Regulation 6 Statements of matters and pre-inquiry meetings

The adjudicator may, not later than 12 weeks after the relevant date, cause to be served on any proposer and any relevant objector a written statement of the matters about which the adjudicator particularly wishes to be informed for the purposes of his consideration of the matter the subject of the inquiry.

The adjudicator may hold a pre-inquiry meeting where he considers it desirable and shall arrange for not less than two weeks written notice of it to be given to the proposer, any relevant objector and any other person whose presence at the meeting appears to him to be desirable.

The adjudicator shall preside at the pre-inquiry meeting and shall determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed, and he may require any person present at the meeting who, in his opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave and may refuse to permit that person to attend any further meeting, or may permit him to return only on such conditions as he may specify.