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6.—(1) The appellant and the local planning authority must ensure that, within 6 weeks of the starting date, 2 copies of their hearing statements are received by the National Assembly and a copy is received by any statutory party.
(2) The National Assembly may in writing require the appellant and the local planning authority to provide such further information about the matters contained in their hearing statements as it may specify; such information must be provided in writing and the appellant or the local planning authority, as the case may be, must ensure that 2 copies are received by the National Assembly and a copy is received by any statutory party within such period as the National Assembly may reasonably require.
(3) Any statutory party, and any person who made representations to the local planning authority about the application occasioning the appeal or who was notified about the application occasioning the appeal, must ensure that 3 copies of any written comments which that person wishes to make concerning the appeal are received by the National Assembly within 6 weeks of the starting date.
(4) The appellant and the local planning authority must ensure that the National Assembly receives 2 copies, and any statutory party a copy, of any written comments the local planning authority or the appellant wish to make on—
(a)each other’s hearing statement;
(b)comments made pursuant to paragraph (3); and
(c)comments made to them by any other person,
within 9 weeks of the starting date.
(5) The National Assembly must send, as soon as practicable after receipt, a copy of any—
(a)hearing statement received by it pursuant to paragraph (1), further information provided pursuant to paragraph (2) and any comments received by it pursuant to paragraph (4) from, in each case, the appellant or the local planning authority, to the other of those two parties; and
(b)written comments made by persons pursuant to paragraph (3), to the local planning authority and the appellant.
(6) The local planning authority must afford to any person who so requests a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of—
(a)its completed questionnaire, hearing statement and any document copied to it under paragraph (5); and
(b)further information provided by it under paragraph (2) and comments made by it under paragraph (4),
and must specify in its hearing statement the time and place where such opportunity is to be afforded.
(7) The National Assembly must send to the inspector, as soon as practicable after receipt, any hearing statement, document, part of any document or written comments received by the National Assembly within the relevant period specified for such documents to be received pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4).
(8) In the case of a non-transferred appeal, the National Assembly, and in the case of a transferred appeal, the inspector, may, in determining the appeal, disregard any comments made pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4) which are received after the relevant period specified.
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