{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1627",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Libraries (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Appointed person’s power to hold pre-inquiry meetings",
  "text": "(1) The appointed person may hold a pre-inquiry meeting, or if appropriate more than one meeting, where he considers it desirable and shall arrange for not less than 14 days' written notice of any such meeting to be given to the Secretary of State, the library authority, any person on whom the relevant notice was served and any other person whose presence at the meeting appears to him to be desirable.\n(2) The appointed person shall preside at the pre-inquiry meeting and shall determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed, and he may require any person present at the meeting who, in his opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave it and he may refuse to permit that person to return or to attend any further pre-inquiry meeting, or may permit him to return or to attend only on such conditions as he may specify.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1627/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:19:52.936239+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."
}