{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/304",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Generating Stations (Applications for Variation of Consent) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Public inquiries",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may cause a public inquiry to be held into a variation application if they consider it appropriate to do so.\n(2) A public inquiry may be held into a variation application in addition to or instead of any other hearing or opportunity of making representations about the variation application.\n(3) If the Scottish Ministers cause a public inquiry to be held into a variation application, the provisions of paragraph 4(1) (as substituted by paragraph 4(5)) and (4) of Schedule 8 to the Act apply, subject to the modifications specified in paragraph (4) below, to the inquiry as they apply to a public inquiry caused to be held by the Scottish Ministers by virtue of paragraph 2(2) or 3(2) of Schedule 8 to the Act.\n(4) The modifications are—\n(a) references in those paragraphs to paragraph 2(2) or 3(2) of Schedule 8 to the Act are to be treated as references to this regulation; and\n(b) the reference in paragraph 4(4) to an application for consent under section 36 is to be treated as a reference to the variation application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/304/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:32.194404+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."
}