{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/section-39",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Costs of inquiries",
  "text": "(1) Section 11 of the Transport and Works Act 1992 (inquiries and hearings) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (5) (application of section 250 of the Local Government Act 1972), before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) the powers of direction, certification and order-making conferred by section 250(4) and (5) as applied by this subsection may, unless otherwise directed by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers, be exercised on their behalf by the person holding the inquiry,”.\n(3) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) The power of direction conferred by section 250(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (costs of inquiry) as applied by subsection (5) is, in the case of an application under section 6, to be exercised so as to require the applicant to pay the costs in question, unless the person exercising the power considers that there is good reason to exercise it differently.”\n(4) In subsection (6) (application to hearings of provisions applied to inquiries), after “(costs)” insert “, and subsection (5A) of this section,”.\n(5) The amendments made by subsections (3) and (4) do not apply in relation to an application in respect of which rule 5(1) of the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2006 (S.I. 2006/1466) has been complied with before this section comes into force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 in force at 18.2.2026, see s. 118(1)(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:49:26.153791+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."
}