{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-compulsory-wayleaves-hearings-procedure-rules-1967/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-compulsory-wayleaves-hearings-procedure-rules-1967/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1967/450",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Compulsory Wayleaves) (Hearings Procedure) Rules 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-compulsory-wayleaves-hearings-procedure-rules-1967",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appearances at Hearing",
  "text": "(1) The electricity authority may appear at the hearing by any of its officers appointed by it for the purpose or by counsel or solicitor, and an objector may appear on his own behalf or be represented by counsel, solicitor or any other person.\n(2) Where there are two or more objectors having a similar interest in the matter under inquiry the appointed person may allow one or more persons to appear for the benefit of some or all of the objectors so interested.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules revoked (E.W.) (1.10.2013) by The Electricity (Necessary Wayleaves and Felling and Lopping of Trees) (Hearing Procedures) (England and Wales) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1987), art. 1(1), rule 20(1) (with art. 20(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5 in force at 17.4.1967, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1967/450/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:37:24.605335+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."
}