The Compulsory Purchase by Non-Ministerial Acquiring Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1990

Statements of evidence

14.—(1) The Secretary of State may by notice in writing require any person who—

(a) is entitled to appear at an inquiry; and

(b) proposes to give, or call another person to give, evidence thereat by reading a written statement— to serve a copy of that statement of evidence on the inspector, such service to be effected not later than 3 weeks before the date on which the person entitled to appear is due to give evidence in accordance with the timetable arranged pursuant to rule 9 or, if there is no such timetable, 3 weeks before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry.

(2) An inspector may by notice in writing require any person who has served on him a copy statement pursuant to paragraph (1) to supply to him, within such period as he specifies, a written summary of the contents of that statement.

(3) Where the acquiring authority sends a copy of a statement of evidence or a summary to an inspector in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2), it shall at the same time send a copy to every other person mentioned in rule 12(1); and where any such person sends a copy statement or summary to the inspector he shall at the same time send a copy to the acquiring authority.

(4) Where the inspector has required a written summary of evidence in accordance with paragraph (2), the person giving that evidence at the inquiry shall do so only by reading the written summary, unless permitted by the inspector to do otherwise.

(5) Any person required by this rule to send a copy of a statement of evidence to any other person shall send with it a copy of the whole, or the relevant part, of any documents referred to in it, unless copies of the documents or parts of documents in question have already been made available to that person pursuant to rule 7.