{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-examination-procedure-rules-2010/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-examination-procedure-rules-2010/rule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-examination-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice of appointment of a Panel or a single appointed person",
  "text": "(1) Where the Examining authority is a Panel or a single appointed person, the Secretary of State must, before the preliminary meeting, notify all those who in accordance with section 56(2) (notifying persons of accepted applications) have been notified of an accepted application, that the Examining authority has been appointed and give details of who has been appointed.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a single appointed person has been appointed as the Examining authority in relation to an application; and\n(b) the Secretary of State subsequently decides that the Examining authority should be a Panel,\nthe Secretary of State must notify all interested parties of the Secretary of State’s decision.\n(3) The Secretary of State must notify all interested parties of—\n(a) any change in the membership of the Panel or appointment of any replacement single appointed person in accordance with section 82 (appointment of replacement single appointed person); and\n(b) any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 95A.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Rules substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 4(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 4(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 4(2) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 4(3) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 4(3)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Localism Act 2011 (Infrastructure Planning) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/635), regs. 1(2), 5(5)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4 in force at 1.3.2010, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/103/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:55:30.591269+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."
}