{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-inquiries-procedure-rules-1994/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-inquiries-procedure-rules-1994/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3263",
  "legislation_title": "The Highways (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-inquiries-procedure-rules-1994",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Notification of decision",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall notify his decision, and the reasons for it, in writing to the promoting authority (in a case where the promoting authority is a local highway authority), to the statutory objectors and to any other person who, having appeared at the inquiry, has asked to be notified of the decision.\n(2) Where a copy of the inspector’s report is not sent with the notification of the decision, the notification shall be accompanied by a statement of his conclusions and of any recommendations made by him; and if a person entitled to be notified of the decision has not received a copy of that report, he shall be supplied with a copy of it on written application made to the Secretary of State within 4 weeks of the date of the decision.\n(3) In this rule “report”includes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended; but any person who has received a copy of the report may apply to the Secretary of State in writing within 6 weeks of the date of the Secretary of State’s decision, for an opportunity of inspecting any such documents and the Secretary of State shall afford him that opportunity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3263/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:19:49.301679+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."
}