# The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007, 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;
“statement of case” means a written statement comprising—
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3617/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-rules-2007/article-2
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