{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-inquiries-procedure-rules-1995/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Inspector’s power to hold pre-inquiry meetings",
  "text": "(1) 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.\n(2) Rule 4(10) shall apply to a pre-inquiry meeting held 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/5",
    "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."
}