11.—(1) The appointed person may hold a meeting (“a pre-examination meeting”) to consider the manner in which the appeal or any stage of the appeal is to be conducted with a view to securing that the appeal or any stage of the appeal is conducted efficiently and expeditiously.
(2) The appointed person is to determine (and may subsequently vary) the date, time and place for the holding of a pre-examination meeting.
(3) The appointed person must give such notice of the holding of a pre-examination meeting and of the date, time and place where it is to be held (and any subsequent variation thereof) as may appear to the appointed person to be reasonable in the circumstances—
(a)where a pre-examination meeting is to be held in connection only with the conduct of a particular hearing session or inquiry session, to those persons entitled to appear at that hearing session or inquiry session; and
(b)in any other case, to the appellant, Historic Environment Scotland and any interested party.
(4) The appointed person is to determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed at the pre-examination meeting.
(5) In this regulation “pre examination meeting” has the meaning given in paragraph (1).