The Department shall, throughout the period of 3 months preceding the beginning of the first financial year or, as the case may be, period for which a rural settlement list is to have effect, make available for inspection a draft of the list in the form in which the Department proposes that it should have effect for that period.

In each financial year for which a rural settlement list has effect the Department shall (if it appears to the Department that paragraph 1(1) will apply to the Department in respect of the financial year) review the list and consider whether or not, for the next financial year, any alterations are required to the list in order to give effect to paragraph 1(2).

If following the review the Department considers that any such alterations are required for that year, it shall, throughout the 3 months preceding the beginning of that year, make available for inspection a draft of the list in the form in which it proposes that it should have effect for that year.

Where the Department has compiled a rural settlement list it shall make the list available for inspection in the form in which the list has effect for each financial year to which it relates.

Where the Department is required to make any list or draft available under this paragraph, it shall make the list or draft available at any reasonable hour (and free of charge).