{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-17.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/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Procedure following quashing of decision",
  "text": "(1) Where a decision of the Secretary of State on an application in respect of which an inquiry has been held is quashed in proceedings before any court, the Secretary of State—\n(a) shall send to the persons entitled to appear at the inquiry who appeared at it a written statement of the matters which appear to him to be relevant to his further consideration of the application; and\n(b) shall afford to those persons an opportunity of making, within 3 weeks of the date of such written statement, written representations to him in respect of such matters or of asking for the re-opening of the inquiry; and\n(c) may, as he thinks fit, cause the inquiry to be re-opened (whether by the same or a different inspector), and, if he does so, rules 9(3) to 9(7) shall apply as if the references to an inquiry were references to a re-opened inquiry.",
  "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/17",
    "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."
}