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1.—(1) The Department shall send to every person entitled to appear in accordance with paragraph 3 at an inquiry written notice of the date, time and place fixed for the holding of the inquiry. Such notice shall be sent at least 21 days before the date so fixed.
(2) The Department may vary the date, time or place for the holding of the inquiry; and when it varies the date it shall send to every person so entitled to appear at the inquiry, written notice of the date, time and place of the holding of the inquiry as varied. Such notice shall be sent at least 21 days before the date as varied.
(3) The period of 21 days referred to in sub-paragraph (1) and (2) may be abridged with the consent of every person so entitled to appear at the inquiry.
(4) Where the Department varies the time or place for the holding of an inquiry without varying the date, it shall give such notice of the variation as appears to be reasonable.
(5) Nothing in this paragraph shall authorise the Department to hold an inquiry before the date published in Applications and Decisions pursuant to regulation 19.
(6) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply to an adjourned inquiry save that —
(a)if the date, time and place of the adjourned inquiry are announced at the inquiry before the adjournment, no further notice of that date, time and place shall be required; and
(b)sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) shall have effect in relation to an adjourned inquiry as if for “21 days” there were substituted “7 days”.
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