{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/1077",
  "legislation_title": "The Sustainable Drainage (Approval and Adoption Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duty to consult before determining application for approval",
  "text": "(1) An approving body, when requesting a response from a person consulted under paragraph 11(3) of Schedule 3 (a “consultee”), must specify a date for response which is within 3 weeks beginning on the first working day after sending the request.\n(2) Before the end of the period specified under paragraph (1) the approving body and consultee may agree a different date for response.\n(3) The approving body may disregard a response that is received from a consultee after the relevant time limit.\n(4) In this regulation, “relevant time limit” means—\n(a) a period specified under paragraph (1), or\n(b) any other period agreed under paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/1077/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:45.053337+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."
}