{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-and-overhead-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1987/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2182",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Generating Stations and Overhead Lines (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-and-overhead-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Representatives of government departments at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) Where any government department has expressed a view such as is mentioned in rule 5(2) and the Secretary of State has included its terms in a statement served in accordance with that rule or rule 6(9), a representative of the government department concerned shall be made available to attend the inquiry.\n(2) A person attending an inquiry as a representative in pursuance of this rule shall state the reasons for the expression of view in question and shall give evidence and be subject to cross-examination to the same extent as any other witness.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall require a representative of a government department to answer any question which in the opinion of the inspector is directed to the merits of government policy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2182/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:45.849144+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."
}