{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/3015",
  "legislation_title": "The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-purchase-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2010",
  "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 Welsh Ministers to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Welsh Ministers may specify;\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 Welsh Ministers 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, the land over which such a right would be exercised;\n“Welsh Ministers order” means an order prepared in draft by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act;\n“non-Welsh Ministers 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”, in relation to a person and an inquiry, means a written statement of the principal submissions which that person proposes to put forward at the 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 Welsh Ministers’ 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 paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to the Act;\n“statement of case”, in relation to a person and an inquiry, means a written statement containing—\n(a) full particulars of the case which the person proposes to put forward at the inquiry (including, where the person is the acquiring authority, the reasons for making the order); and\n(b) a list of any documents to which the person intends to refer or which the person intends to put in evidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "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/2010/3015/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:12.548006+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."
}