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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-underground-storage-inquiries-procedure-rules-1966/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-underground-storage-inquiries-procedure-rules-1966/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1966/1375",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Underground Storage) (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-underground-storage-inquiries-procedure-rules-1966",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Statement to be served before Inquiry",
  "text": "(1) As soon as may be after receiving notification of the substance of the objections of statutory objectors and in any event (except where the Minister specifies a later date under proviso (i) to paragraph (2) of rule 4) not later than 28 days before the date of the inquiry, the applicants shall, unless they have already done so, serve on each statutory objector a written statement of the submissions that they propose to make at the inquiry and shall supply a copy of the statement to the Minister.\n(2) Where a government department has expressed in writing to the applicants a view in support of the application and the applicants propose to rely on such expression of view in their submissions at the inquiry, they shall include it in the statement referred to in the last foregoing paragraph and shall send a copy of their statement to the government department concerned.\n(3) Where the applicants intend to refer to or put in evidence at the inquiry documents (including maps and plans), their statement shall be accompanied by a list of such documents, together with a notice stating the times and place at which the documents may be inspected by any statutory objector; and the applicants shall afford every statutory objector a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of the documents.\n(4) The applicants shall afford any other person interested a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, to take copies of their statement and of the other documents referred to in the last foregoing paragraph.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1375/article/5",
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  "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."
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