Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 2011 Act” means the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011;

• “consultation bodies” means—

  1. (a)

     Northern Ireland government departments,

  2. (b)

     the council for any district which adjoins that of the council carrying out the consultation,

  3. (c)

     a water or sewerage undertaker,

  4. (d)

     the Northern Ireland Housing Executive,

  5. (e)

     the Civil Aviation Authority,

  6. (f)

     any person to whom the electronic communications code applies by virtue of a direction given under section 106(3) of the Communications Act 2003 M1,

  7. (g)

     any person to whom a licence has been granted under Article 10(1) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 M2,

  8. (h)

     any person to whom a licence has been granted under Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 M3;

• “council” means a district council;

• “electronic communication” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 of the Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 M4,

• “inspection” means inspection by the public;

• “local advertisement” means an advertisement for two successive weeks in at least one newspaper circulating in the district of the council;

• “person appointed” means a person appointed by the Department under section 10(4) to carry out an independent examination;

• “preferred options paper” means a consultation document prepared by the council for the purpose of consulting the public before a local development plan is prepared;

• “site specific policy” means a policy in a development plan document which identifies a site for a particular use or development;

• “site specific policy representation” means any representation which seeks to change a development plan document by—

  1. (a)

     adding a site specific policy to the development plan document; or

  2. (b)

     altering or deleting any site specific policy in the development plan document;

• “timetable” means a timetable prepared under section 7.

In these Regulations any references to sections are references to sections of the 2011 Act unless otherwise stated.