Regulation 21 Conduct of a local inquiryI1

This regulation applies where the examining authority determines that an application is to be examined, in whole or in part, at a local inquiry.

The examining authority is to preside at a local inquiry and is to decide—

At the opening of the local inquiry, the examining authority must—

The examining authority is to decide the order in which persons are called to give evidence at a local inquiry.

Any person who is invited to give evidence in a local inquiry may make a request to the examining authority to call a third party to give evidence.

A person who takes part in a local inquiry is entitled to cross-examine another person who gives oral evidence to the inquiry.

The examining authority must permit a person who is cross-examined at a local inquiry to be re-examined.

In the conduct of the local inquiry, the examining authority may in particular—

Any person who is required to leave a local inquiry may submit representations in writing to the examining authority before the close of the inquiry.

If the examining authority adjourns a local inquiry, F1it must give reasonable notice of the date, time and place of the resumption of the adjourned local inquiry, unless paragraph (11) applies.

If the examining authority adjourns a local inquiry and announces at that local inquiry the date, time and place of the adjourned local inquiry, no further notice is required.

In this regulation, “closing submissions” has the meaning given by regulation 20(11).