{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-4.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-4.7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/4.7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.7",
  "heading": "Consultation: procedure",
  "text": "(1) When a body is consulted under rule 4.5 or 4.6 it must be informed by letter or electronic communication that it is being consulted in accordance with that rule and that a response to the consultation will be taken into account if it is received within 42 days of the date of the letter or electronic communication.\n(2) The notice must be accompanied by—\n(a) the standard information in Form 1A or Form 1B;\n(b) a summary of the works or other proposals being consulted on;\n(c) any relevant designs, plans and photographs;\n(d) any other documents giving particulars of the works or other proposals; and\n(e) the statement of significance and the statement of needs prepared in accordance with rule 4.4.\n(3) Any response to consultation undertaken under rule 4.5 or rule 4.6 which is received more than 42 days after the date of the letter or electronic communication sent under paragraph (1) need not be (but may be) taken into account.\n(4) Where a body which was not informed of consultation in accordance with paragraph (1) nevertheless responds to the consultation in question, the response need not be (but may be) taken into account, regardless of when it is received.\n(5) Where consultation under rule 4.5 or 4.6 is sent by means of an online system, any response to that consultation must itself, so far as is practicable, be sent by means of that online system.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 substituted (1.4.2020) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1184), rules 1(2), 6 (with rule 23(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 4.7(4) renumbered as rule 4.7(3) (1.7.2022) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/155), rules 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 4.7(4)(5) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/155), rules 1(2), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1568/rule/4.7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:22.575744+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."
}