Article 21 Revocation, savings and transitional

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), the Town and Country Planning (InquiriesProcedure) Rules 1988^f1 are hereby revoked, except rule 21 of those Rules so far as it makes provision for the continued application of the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1974^f2.

(2)

Any application or appeal to which the 1988 Rules applied which has not been determined on the date when these Rules come into force (“the commencement date”) shall be continued under these Rules, but—

(a)

rules 13 and 14(5) of the 1988 Rules shall continue to apply, and rules 8(2), 13 and 14(5) of these Rules shall not apply, in a case where at the commencement date—

(i)

an inquiry has been opened but not closed; or

(ii)

a date has been fixed for the holding of an inquiry which is less than 6 weeks after the commencement date; and

(b)

persons who were section 29(3) parties under the 1988 Rules shall be treated as statutory parties.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1988/944.
f2: S.I. 1974/419.