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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-mersey-mersey-gateway-bridge-order-2011/schedule-11/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/41",
  "legislation_title": "The River Mersey (Mersey Gateway Bridge) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-mersey-mersey-gateway-bridge-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where any objections have been made in accordance with paragraph 9 the undertaker shall cause a local inquiry to be held for the purpose of considering the objections.\n(2) The local inquiry shall be held by a person appointed by the Secretary of State.\n(3) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 250 of the Local Government Act 1972 shall apply to an inquiry under this paragraph as they apply to an inquiry under that section.\n(4) The Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 shall apply to a local inquiry held under this paragraph as it applies to a statutory inquiry held by the Minister but as if in section 10(1) of that Act (statement of reasons for decision) the reference to any decision taken by the Minister were a reference to the decision taken by the undertaker.\n(5) A local inquiry need not be held under this paragraph if all persons who have made objections have withdrawn their objections in which case paragraph 10(1) shall apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 12 in force at 1.2.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 53."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/41/schedule/11/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:20:37.203368+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."
}