{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Representatives of government departments and other authorities at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) the Secretary of State or the Commission has given a direction such as is described in rule 4(2)(a) or (b); or\n(b) the Secretary of State or any other Minister of the Crown or any government department, or any body falling within rule 11(1)(c), has expressed a view such as is described in rule 4(2)(c) and the local planning authority have included the terms of the expression of view in a statement served in accordance with rule 5(4) or 6(1); or\n(c) another Minister of the Crown or any government department has expressed a view such as is described in rule 4(2)(c) and the Secretary of State has included its terms in a statement served in accordance with rule 5(2) or 6(10),\nthe applicant may, not later than 2 weeks before the date of an inquiry, apply in writing to the Secretary of State for a representative of the Secretary of State or of the other Minister, department or body concerned to be made available at the inquiry.\n(2) Where an application is made in accordance with paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall make a representative available to attend the inquiry or, as the case may be, transmit the application to the other Minister, department or body concerned, who shall make a representative available to attend the inquiry.\n(3) A person attending an inquiry as a representative in pursuance of this rule shall state the reasons for the direction or expressed view and shall give evidence and be subject to cross-examination to the same extent as any other witness.\n(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) shall require a representative of a Minister or a government department to answer any question which in the opinion of the inspector is directed to the merits of government policy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "superseded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1223",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2038/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:04.002428+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."
}