SCHEDULE 2 Procedure in Connection with Toll Orders
Making or confirmation of order
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(1)
The Secretary of State, after considering—
(a)
any objections which are not withdrawn, and
(b)
where a local inquiry is held, the report of the person who held the inquiry,
may make or confirm the order either without modification or subject to such modifications as he thinks fit.
(2)
Where he proposes to make or confirm the order subject to modifications which will in his opinion make a substantial change in the order, he shall—
(a)
notify any person who appears to him to be likely to be affected by the proposed modifications,
(b)
give that person an opportunity of making representations with respect to the modifications within such reasonable period as he may specify, and
(c)
consider any representations made to him within that period with respect to the proposed modifications.