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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2003/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1266",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Representatives of the National Assembly, government departments and other authorities at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) the National Assembly has given a direction described in rule 4(2)(a); or\n(b) the National Assembly, any Minister of the Crown or government department, or any body falling within rule 11(1)(c), has expressed a view described in rule 4(2)(b) and the local planning authority has included the terms of the expression of view in a statement sent in accordance with rule 5(2) or 6(1); or\n(c) a Minister of the Crown or government department has expressed a view described in rule 4(2)(b) and the National Assembly has included its terms in a statement sent in accordance with rule 5(2) or 6(12),\nthe applicant, the local planning authority or a person entitled to take part in an inquiry may, not later than 4 weeks before the date of an inquiry, apply in writing to the National Assembly for a representative of the National Assembly or of the 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 National Assembly must make a representative available to attend the inquiry or, as the case may be, send the application to the Minister, department or body concerned, who must make a representative available to attend the inquiry.\n(3) Any person attending an inquiry as a representative in pursuance of this rule must state the reasons for the direction or expressed view and give evidence and will be subject to cross-examination to the same extent as any other witness.\n(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) requires a representative of the National Assembly to answer any question which, in the opinion of the inspector, is directed to the merits of National Assembly policy or requires any Minister or 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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1266/article/12",
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  },
  "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."
}