Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd August 1999.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “authority” means a local planning authority^f1 making, or having functions under, an order;

• “land affected by the order” includes any land adjoining the land on which the trees, groups of trees or woodlands to which the order relates are situated;

• “order” means a tree preservation order;

• “person interested”, in relation to land affected by an order, means every owner and occupier of the land and every other person whom the authority know to be entitled to fell any of the trees to which the order relates or to work by surface working any materials in, on or under the land;