# The Electricity Generating Stations and Overhead Lines (Inquiries Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2007, Article 14: Date and notification of inquiry


(1) The date fixed by the Secretary of State for the holding of an inquiry shall be, unless he considers such a date impracticable, not later than—
(a) where a pre-inquiry meeting is held, ten weeks after the conclusion of it;
(b) otherwise eighteen weeks from the date of the relevant notice.
(2) Where the Secretary of State considers it impracticable to fix a date in accordance with paragraph (1), the date fixed shall be the earliest date after the end of the period applicable under that paragraph which he considers to be practicable.
(3) Unless the Secretary of State agrees a lesser period of notice with the applicant and any qualifying planning authority, he shall give not less than four weeks’ written notice of the date, time and place fixed by him for the holding of an inquiry to every person entitled to appear at the inquiry.
(4) The Secretary of State may vary the date fixed for the holding of an inquiry, whether or not the date as varied is within the period applicable under paragraph (1); and paragraph (3) shall apply to a variation of a date as it applied to the date originally fixed.
(5) The Secretary of State may vary the time or place for the holding of an inquiry and shall give such notice of any variation as appears to him to be reasonable.
(6) A written notice shall be taken to have been given by the Secretary of State for the purposes of paragraph (3) where he and any person entitled to appear at the inquiry have agreed that notice of the matters mentioned in that paragraph may instead be accessed by that person via a website, and—
(a) the notice is a notice to which that agreement applies;
(b) the Secretary of State has published that notice on the website; and
(c) not less than four weeks before the date fixed by the Secretary of State for the holding of the inquiry, the person is notified of—
(i) the publication of the notice on the website;
(ii) the address of the website; and
(iii) the place on the website where the notice may be accessed, and how it may be accessed.
(7) Where these Rules apply to an inquiry by virtue of rule 1(2)(b), paragraphs (5) and (6) of rule 9 shall (in addition to paragraphs (1) to (6) above) apply in relation to that inquiry as if references in those paragraphs to a pre-inquiry meeting or the first pre-inquiry meeting were references to the inquiry.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/841/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-and-overhead-lines-inquiries-procedure-england-and-wales-rules-2007/article-14
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