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Advice to Ian Selby

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From
Ian Selby
Date advice given
17 September 2012
Enquiry type
Email

Request for information about a template for a statutory instrument

Advice given

Further to your request for information about a template for a statutory instrument, please see the link to the circular on the SI template: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/sip-circulars/sip-circ01-2009.pdf. As you will see the SI template itself is password protected and I believe accessible only to public bodies - so you may have access to this. The SI practice document is available at: www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si-practice.doc.

Should the DCO be approved it will then be passed to colleagues within the Planning Inspectorate to reproduce it in the SI template, so any formatting errors will be corrected. I believe it is up to the relevant department (DfT, DECC, DCLG) to check the formatting. During previous discussions with TSO, they had suggested that the applicants could simply refer to the statutory instruments available on the OPSI website for examples of the SI format.

Therefore I think that you need only to ensure the DCO is in the correct format (perhaps using the Rookery DCO or a statutory instrument on OPSI as example, if you unable to access the SI template).