PART IXROADS
Procedure for making orders under Article 100 or 102C1F1103
1
Before making an order under Article 100 or 102 the Department shall publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the relevant area a notice—
a
stating the general effect of the order;
b
specifying a place in the relevant area where a copy of the draft order and of any relevant map or plan may be inspected by any person at all reasonable hours during a period of 28 days from the date of publication of the notice; and
c
stating that, within that period, any person may by notice to the Department object to the making of the order.
2
Not later than the date on which that notice is so published, the Department shall serve a copy of the notice, together with a copy of the draft order and of any relevant map or plan, on—
a
every district council in whose area any land to which the order relates is situated;
b
any gas F2electricity, water or sewerage undertakers having any cables, mains, pipes, or wires laid along, across, under or over any land over which a right of way is to be extinguished, under the order; and
3
The Department may cause a public local inquiry to be held by the planning appeals commission to hear objections to the proposed order.
4
After considering any objections to the order which are not withdrawn and, where a public local inquiry is held, the report of the planning appeals commission, the Department may make the order either without modification or subject to such modifications as it thinks fit.
5
Where the Department makes an order under Article 100 or 102 the Department shall publish, in the manner specified in paragraph (1), a notice stating that the order has been made, and naming a place where a copy of the order may be seen at all reasonable hours; and paragraph (2) shall have effect in relation to any such notice as it has effect in relation to a notice under paragraph (1).
6
In this Article “the relevant area”, in relation to an order, means the area in which any land to which the order relates is situated.