Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Trees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 12th November 2003.
(2) In these Regulations –
“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 the owner and occupier of the land;
and any reference in these Regulations to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.