Roads (Scotland) Act 1984

Part IIIS General

15Any person who objects to the making or confirmation of an order or scheme pursuant to this Schedule shall include in the notice of objection a statement of the grounds of objection; and the Secretary of State may disregard any such notice of objection which does not contain such a statement.

16SThe Secretary of State may, by notice served on a person objecting to the making or confirmation of an order or scheme pursuant to this Schedule who submits that any road to which the order or scheme relates should follow an alternative route, require such person within such period as may be specified in the notice to give sufficient details of the alternative route to enable it to be identified and may disregard so much of the objection as consists of a submission to which the notice applies unless the person making the objection has complied with the notice.

17SProceedings required to be taken for the purposes of an order under section 9 of this Act relating to a special road or for the purposes of an order under section 12 of this Act relating to a trunk road may be taken concurrently with proceedings required by this Schedule to be taken for the purposes of an order under section 5 of this Act or, as the case may be for the purposes of a scheme under section 7 of this Act, relating to that road.

18Section 210(2) to (8) of the M1Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 shall apply to any inquiry held under paragraph 5 or 11 above as it applies in relation to a local inquiry under that section, but without prejudice to paragraph 19 below.

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