Article 2 Interpretation

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, references to sections are references to sections of the Transport and Works Act 1992^f1, and—

• “applicant” means any person who has submitted an application to the Secretary of State in accordance with rules made under section 6; or, in the case where the Secretary of State has made a proposal for an order under section 7, the Secretary of State;

• “application” means an application under section 6 for an order under section 1 or 3 or the publication of a notice by the Secretary of State of a proposal to make such an order by virtue of section 7;

• “assessor” means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Secretary of State may specify;

• “document” includes a photograph, map or plan;

• “inquiry” means a public local inquiry to which these Rules apply by virtue of rule 3;

• “inspector” means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;

• “official body” means a Minister of the Crown or a government department;

• “official case” means a written statement by an official body setting out its evidence in regard to an application;

• “official representation” means a written objection or representation made by an official body in regard to an application;

• “order” means an order under section 1 or 3;

• “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 more than one such meeting is held references to the conclusion of a pre-inquiry meeting are references to the conclusion of the final meeting;

• “relevant date” means the date on which the Secretary of State gives notice under rule 4 and “relevant notice” means that notice;

• “statement of case” means a written statement containing full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at the inquiry (including, where that person is the applicant, the reasons for submitting the application), together with a list of any documents which that person intends to refer to or put in evidence;

• “statement of matters” means a statement by the Secretary of State of the matters about which he particularly wishes to be informed for the purposes of his consideration of the order in question;

• “statutory body” means a body, not being an official body, which has been given by public general Act functions relevant to the subject matter of an application;

• “statutory objector” means a person within section 11(4).

Where the Secretary of State is the applicant these Rules shall be construed so as not to require that—