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9.—(1) Before or after giving consent to a reference the Secretary of State may request written representations from the parties.
(2) Representations must be made within the time period which the Secretary of State specifies in the request.
(3) Representations from any of the other parties must include the information that the other party would have to have given under regulation 7(2) if it had been the applicant.