Article 2 Interpretation

In these Rules—

• “the Act” means the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;

• “assessor” means a person appointed by the authorising authority to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the authorising authority may specify;

• “authorising authority” means the confirming authority where subsection (3) (a) of section 13A of the Act applies or the appropriate authority where sub-paragraph (3) (a) of paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to the Act applies;

• “document” includes a photograph, map or plan;

• “inquiry” means a public local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;

• “inspector” means a person appointed by the authorising authority to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;

• “land” means the land to which an order relates or, where a right over land is proposed to be acquired by an order, the land over which the right would be exercised;

• “ministerial order” means an order prepared in draft in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act;

• “non-ministerial order” means an order made and submitted for confirmation in accordance with Part 2 of the Act;

• “order” means a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7 of the Act;

• “outline statement”, means a written statement of the principal submissions which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry;

• “pre-inquiry meeting” means a meeting held before an inquiry to consider what may be done with a view to securing that the inquiry is conducted efficiently and expeditiously; and where two or more such meetings are held references to the conclusion of a pre-inquiry meeting are references to the conclusion of the final meeting;

• “relevant date” means the date of the authorising authority’s notice under paragraph (2) or (3) of rule 3;

• “remaining objector” means a person who has a remaining objection within the meaning of section 13A or, as the case may be, paragraph 4A (1) of Schedule 1^f1;

• “statement of case” means a written statement comprising—

  1. (a)

     full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at the inquiry (including where that person is the acquiring authority^f2 the reasons for making the order); and

  2. (b)

     copies of, or relevant extracts from, any documents referred to in such statements and a list of any documents to which that person intends to refer or which he intends to put in evidence.