{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/section-96.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Representations not made orally may be made in writing",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a person asks the Examining authority to be allowed to make oral representations about the application at a hearing,\n(b) the person does not (for whatever reason) make the representations orally at a hearing,\n(c) written representations from the person are received by the Secretary of State before the Examining authority completes the Examining authority's examination of the application, and\n(d) the written representations state that they are ones that the person asked to be allowed to, but did not, make orally at a hearing.\n(2) The Examining authority must consider the written representations as part of the Examining authority's examination of the application, subject to section 87(3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 96(1)(c) substituted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 13 para. 43; S.I. 2012/628, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 96 in force at 1.3.2010 by S.I. 2010/101, art. 3(d) (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:38.131823+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}