{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-underground-storage-inquiries-procedure-rules-1966/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-underground-storage-inquiries-procedure-rules-1966/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Site Inspections",
  "text": "(1) The appointed person may make unaccompanied inspections of the storage and protective areas before or during the inquiry without giving notice of his intention to the persons entitled to appear at the inquiry.\n(2) The appointed person may, and shall if so requested by the applicants or any statutory objector before or during the inquiry, inspect the storage and protective areas or any part thereof after the close of the inquiry, and shall, in all cases where he intends to make such an inspection, announce during the inquiry the date and time at which he proposes to do so.\n(3) The applicants and the statutory objectors shall be entitled to accompany the appointed person on any inspection after the close of the inquiry; but the appointed person shall not be bound to defer his inspection if any person entitled to accompany him is not present at the time appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1375/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:41:46.797726+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."
}