12(1)Any reference in this Schedule to a mineral planning authority carrying out special consultations about the making and terms of an order before they make it is a reference to their carrying out consultations—
(a)subject to sub-paragraph (2), with any person who has an interest—
(i)in the land to which the order will relate; or
(ii)in minerals in, on or under that land; and
(b)if the land to which the order will relate is in a non-metropolitan county, with the district council in whose area it is situated.
(2)The duty to consult imposed by sub-paragraph (1)(a) is only a duty to consult persons whom the mineral planning authority are able to trace by taking reasonable steps to do so.