# The Planning (National Security Directions and Appointed Representatives) (Wales) Regulations 2006, Regulation 9: Decision to hold a hearing and date of hearing


(1) Where the directing authority considers that one or more matters relating to the request would be more satisfactorily resolved by holding a hearing attended by the parties, it must give the parties written notice accordingly.
(2) The date fixed by the directing authority for the holding of a hearing must be not later than 6 weeks after the date of the notice referred to in paragraph (1).
(3) Unless the directing authority agrees a lesser period of notice with the parties, it must give to them not less than 2 weeks' written notice of the date, time and place fixed by it for the holding of the hearing.
(4) The directing authority may vary the date fixed for the holding of the hearing, whether or not the date as varied is within the period of 6 weeks mentioned in paragraph (2); and paragraph (3) applies to a variation of a date as it applied to the date originally fixed.
(5) The directing authority may vary the time or place for the holding of a hearing and must give the parties such notice of any variation as appears to it to be reasonable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1387/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/planning-national-security-directions-and-appointed-representatives-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-9
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