# The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1988, Article 13: Statements of evidence


(1) A person entitled to appear at an inquiry who proposes to give, or to call another person to give, evidence at the inquiry by reading a written statement shall send a copy of the statement to the inspector and shall, if so required by the inspector, supply a written summary of that evidence.
(2) The statement shall be sent to the inspector not later than 3 weeks before the date on which the person is due to give evidence in accordance with the time-table arranged pursuant to rule 8 or, if there is no such time-table, 3 weeks before the date fixed for the inquiry, and the summary shall be sent within such period as may be specified by the inspector.
(3) Where the applicant or the local planning authority send a copy of a statement of evidence or a summary to an inspector in accordance with paragraph (1) they shall at the same time send a copy to the other party; and where any other party so sends such a copy statement or summary he shall at the same time send a copy to the applicant and the local planning authority.
(4) Where the inspector has required a written summary of evidence in accordance with paragraph (1), the person giving that evidence at the inquiry shall do so only by reading the written summary, unless permitted by the inspector to do otherwise.
(5) Any person required by this rule to send a copy of a statement of evidence to any other person shall send with it a copy of the whole, or the relevant part, of any documents referred to in it, unless copies of the documents or parts of documents in question have already been made available by the local planning authority pursuant to rule 6(9).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/944/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1988/article-13
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