Section 95: Hearings: disruption ...

Planning Act 2008 · 2008 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Deciding applications for orders granting development consent — Chapter 4: Examination of applications under Chapter 2 or 3

Where an interested party or any other person behaves in a disruptive manner at a hearing, the Examining authority may decide to do any one or more of the following—

exclude the person from all, or part, of the remainder of the hearing;
allow the person to continue to attend the hearing only if the person complies with conditions specified by the Examining authority;
exclude the person from other hearings;
direct that the person is allowed to attend other hearings only if the person complies with conditions specified by the Examining authority.

In this section "hearing" means—

a preliminary meeting under section 88,
a hearing under section 91(2),
a compulsory acquisition hearing (see section 92),
an open-floor hearing (see section 93),
any other meeting or hearing that the Examining authority causes to be held for the purposes of the Examining authority's examination of the application, or
a site visit.

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