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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-scotland-rules-1997/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/796",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (Scotland) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-scotland-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Appearances at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) The persons entitled to appear at the inquiry shall be–\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) the planning authority;\n(c) where the Secretary of State has given a direction restricting the grant of permission for the development for which the application was made or a direction as to how the application is to be determined, a representative of the Secretary of State;\n(d) where a government department have expressed a view in writing on the application and the planning authority have included this in their statement of case, a representative of that department;\n(e) any local authority;\n(f) all statutory parties;\n(g) any person on whom the Secretary of State has required notice to be served under rule 15(6)(b);\n(h) any other person to whom notification has been given under section 265(3) of the Act (notification of local inquiries).\n(2) Any other person may appear at the inquiry at the discretion of the reporter.\n(3) Any person entitled or permitted to appear may do so on his own behalf or be represented by counsel, solicitor or any other person.\n(4) Where there are two or more persons having a similar interest in the matter under inquiry, the reporter may allow one or more persons to appear for the benefit of some or all persons so interested.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/796/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:04.868535+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."
}