PART IIPreliminary Procedure
1Before making a scheme the Ministers shall, after consultation with the Board and the Treasury, prepare a draft scheme and shall cause to be published, in the London Gazette and in the Edinburgh Gazette and in the Belfast Gazette, and in such other manner as they think best for informing persons affected, notice of their intention to make the scheme, specifying—
(a)the place where copies of the draft scheme may be inspected and purchased ; and
(b)the time (which shall be not less than twenty-eight days from the date on which the notice is first published) within which objections to the draft scheme should be made.
2Every objection must be sent to one or other of the Ministers in writing and must state the grounds of objection, and the Ministers, before laying the draft scheme before Parliament, shall consider any objection duly made with respect to it and make such modifications (if any) in it as they think fit after consultation with the Board and the Treasury.
3The Ministers shall not make a scheme unless a draft of the scheme has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House.