Article 5 Inspector’s power to hold pre-inquiry meetings

An inspector may hold a pre-inquiry meeting where he considers it desirable (whether or not one was held pursuant to rule 4(2)), and shall arrange for not less than 3 weeks' written notice of any such meeting to be given to the applicant, any statutory objector, any person known at the date of the notice to be a person entitled to appear at the inquiry and any other person whose presence at the meeting appears to him to be desirable.

Rule 4(10) shall apply to a pre-inquiry meeting held in accordance with this rule.