{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-inquiries-procedure-rules-2004/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-inquiries-procedure-rules-2004/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2018",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport and Works (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-inquiries-procedure-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Special procedure for major inquiries where Secretary of State causes a pre-inquiry meeting to be held",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may cause a pre-inquiry meeting to be held where it appears to him that this would be desirable because of the extent of interest in the inquiry and where he does so this rule applies.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall serve with the relevant notice a notification of his intention to cause a pre-inquiry meeting to be held, a statement of matters and a registration form, which form shall include the address to which, and date by which, completed forms are to be returned and which shall request the following information—\n(a) the name, address and telephone number of the person registering;\n(b) the name, address and telephone number of any agent, or, in the case of an organisation, of the contact person;\n(c) whether or not the person registering has an interest in any land which will be affected by the application;\n(d) whether or not the person or organisation registering is likely to want to be represented formally and to play a major part in the inquiry;\n(e) if not, whether or not the person registering will wish to give oral evidence at the inquiry or will wish only to submit representations in writing.\n(3) The applicant shall, not later than 3 weeks after the starting date, publish by local advertisement a notice of the Secretary of State’s intention to cause a pre-inquiry meeting to be held.\n(4) The notice published pursuant to paragraph (3) shall include the text of the statement of matters and shall state that persons interested in participating in the inquiry should obtain from the Secretary of State a copy of the registration form.\n(5) The applicant shall, not later than 8 weeks after the starting date, serve on the Secretary of State and on each statutory objector an outline statement.\n(6) The applicant shall include in the outline statement the text of any official case supplied under rule 5 upon which he wishes to rely, and shall, not later than 8 weeks after the starting date, serve a copy of that statement on the official body concerned.\n(7) When required to do so by notice in writing from the Secretary of State—\n(a) any statutory objector; and\n(b) any other person who has notified him of any intention or wish to appear at the inquiry,\nshall within 8 weeks from the date of such notice serve upon the Secretary of State, on the applicant and on any other person specified in such notice, an outline statement.\n(8) The pre-inquiry meeting (or, where there is more than one, the first pre-inquiry meeting) shall be held not later than 16 weeks after the starting date.\n(9) The Secretary of State shall give not less than 3 weeks' written notice of the date, time and location of the pre-inquiry meeting to the applicant, each statutory objector and any other person whose presence at the pre-inquiry meeting seems to him to be desirable.\n(10) The Secretary of State may require the applicant to take, in relation to notification of the pre-inquiry meeting, one or more of the steps mentioned in rule 13(6).\n(11) The inspector shall preside at the pre-inquiry meeting and shall determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed; and he may require any person present at the pre-inquiry meeting who, in his opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave and may refuse to permit that person to return or to attend any further pre-inquiry meeting, or may permit him to return or attend only on such conditions as he may specify.\n(12) The inspector may at any time hold such other meetings (including pre-inquiry meetings) as he considers necessary for the efficient and expeditious conduct of the inquiry and he shall arrange for such notice to be given of such meetings as appears to him necessary; and paragraph (11) shall apply to such meetings.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6 in force at 23.8.2004, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2018/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:20:56.852817+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."
}