{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-enforcement-written-representations-procedure-england-regulations-2002/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2683",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-enforcement-written-representations-procedure-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Third party representations",
  "text": "(1) If an interested person notified under regulation 5(1) wishes to submit representations to the Secretary of State, he shall do so within 6 weeks of the starting date.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall—\n(a) send to the appellant and the local planning authority, as soon as practicable after receipt, a copy each of all of the representations received from interested persons; and\n(b) specify a period of not less than 2 weeks within which any comments on the representations must be submitted.\n(3) The Secretary of State may disregard comments made by the local planning authority under paragraph 2(b), where they failed to notify interested persons in accordance with regulation 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2683/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:42:33.336408+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."
}