Article 13 Inquiries held under Paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 of the Act

The following modifications shall be made in these Rules in their application to public local inquiries held in accordance with paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the Act, that is to say—

(1)

“statutory objector” shall mean any person who, being entitled to be served with notice of the proposal to include additional land in the protective area, has duly objected to that proposal and whose objection has not been withdrawn or disregarded in accordance with the said paragraph.

(2)

The Minister shall not later than 28 days before the date of the inquiry (or such later date as he may specify under proviso (i) to paragraph (2) of rule 4) serve on each statutory objector a written statement of the reasons for the proposal to include additional land in the protective area.

(3)

Any statutory objector may, not later than 14 days before the date of the inquiry, apply in writing to the Minister to make a representative of his department available at the inquiry; and on such application the Minister shall make a representative of his department available who shall at the inquiry answer questions in elucidation of the statement referred to in the last foregoing paragraph, not being questions which, in the opinion of the appointed person, are directed to the merits of government policy.

(4)

Rule 9 shall apply to the additional land proposed to be included in the protective area as it applies to that area.