{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-12.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/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Proofs of evidence",
  "text": "(1) Where a person entitled to appear at an inquiry proposes to give, or to call another person to give, evidence at the inquiry by reading a proof of evidence, he shall send a copy of the proof to the inspector together with, subject to paragraph (2), a written summary.\n(2) No written summary shall be required where the proof of evidence proposed to be read contains no more than 1,500 words.\n(3) The proof and any summary shall be sent to the inspector not later than—\n(a) 3 weeks before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry; or\n(b) where a time-table has been arranged pursuant to rule 6 which specifies a date by which the proof and any summary shall be sent to the inspector, that date.\n(4) Where the applicant or any statutory objector sends a copy of a proof to the inspector in accordance with paragraph (1), with or without a summary, he shall at the same time send a copy of that proof and any summary to the other parties set out in rule 7(1) and rule 10(1); and where any other party listed in rule 7(1) and rule 10(1) so sends a copy of such documents he shall at the same time send a copy to the applicant and any (or any other) statutory objector.\n(5) Where a written summary is provided in accordance with paragraph (1), only that summary shall be read at the inquiry, unless the inspector permits or requires otherwise.\n(6) Any person required by this rule to send a copy of a proof to any other person shall send with it a copy of the whole, or the relevant part, of any documents referred to in it, unless a copy of the document or part of the document in question is already available for inspection pursuant to rule 7(9).\n(7) The applicant and the relevant planning authority shall afford to any person who so requests a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of any document sent to or by them in accordance with this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1239/article/12",
    "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."
}