{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3617",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the Act” means the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;\n“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;\n“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;\n“document” includes a photograph, map or plan;\n“inquiry” means a public local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;\n“inspector” means a person appointed by the authorising authority to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;\n“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;\n“ministerial order” means an order prepared in draft in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act;\n“non-ministerial order” means an order made and submitted for confirmation in accordance with Part 2 of the Act;\n“order” means a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7 of the Act;\n“outline statement”, means a written statement of the principal submissions which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry;\n“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;\n“relevant date” means the date of the authorising authority’s notice under paragraph (2) or (3) of rule 3;\n“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;\n“statement of case” means a written statement comprising—\n(a) full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at the inquiry (including where that person is the acquiring authority the reasons for making the order); and\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the definition of “remaining objection”, see section 13A (1) of, or as the case may be, paragraph 4A (1) of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c.67), as inserted by sections 100(6) and 101(4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the definition of “acquiring authority” see section 7(1) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3617/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:38:21.828063+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}