Article 13 Statements of evidence

A person entitled to appear at an inquiry who proposes to give, or to call another person to give, evidence at the inquiry by reading a written statement shall send a copy of the statement to the inspector and shall, if so required by the inspector, supply a written summary of that evidence.

Whenever a statement or summary is sent to the inspector in accordance with paragraph (1) the person sending it shall send a copy to the applicant and the local planning authority, if that is not himself.

The statement shall be sent to the inspector not later than 3 weeks before the date on which the person is due to give evidence in accordance with the time-table arranged pursuant to rule 8 or, if there is no such time-table, 3 weeks before the date fixed for the inquiry, and the summary shall be sent within such period as may be specified by the inspector.

Where the inspector has required a written summary of evidence in accordance with paragraph (1), the person giving that evidence at the inquiry shall do so by reading the written summary alone, unless permitted by the inspector to do otherwise.

Any person required by this rule to send a statement of evidence to any other person shall send with the statement copies of all documents or parts of documents referred to therein and not previously supplied under rule 6(6).