{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1239",
  "legislation_title": "The Pipe-lines (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Appearances at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) The persons entitled to appear at an inquiry are—\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) any statutory objector;\n(c) the relevant planning authority;\n(d) any of the following bodies if the route of the proposed pipe-line runs through land situated in their area and they are not the relevant planning authority—\n(i) a county or district council (including the council of the Isles of Scilly);\n(ii) a National Park Committee within the meaning of paragraph 5 of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972;\n(iii) a joint planning board constituted under section 2(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; or a joint planning board or special planning board reconstituted under Part I of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972;\n(iv) an urban development corporation established under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n(e) where land along the route of the proposed pipe-line is an area designated as a new town, the development corporation for the new town or the Commission for the New Towns as its successor;\n(f) any other person who has served a statement of case in accordance with rule 7(1)(b) or who has served an outline statement in accordance with rule 4(7).\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the inspector from permitting any other person to appear at an inquiry, and such permission shall not unreasonably be withheld.\n(3) Any person entitled or permitted to appear may do so on his own behalf or be represented by counsel, solicitor or any other person.\n(4) An inspector may allow one or more persons to appear for the benefit of some or all of any persons having a similar interest in the matter under inquiry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980. c.65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1239/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:51.662900+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."
}