The Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007

Interpretation

2.  In these Rules—

“the Act” means the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;

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

“authorising authority” means the confirming authority where subsection (3) (a) of section 13A of the Act applies or the appropriate authority where sub-paragraph (3) (a) of paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to the Act applies;

“document” includes a photograph, map or plan;

“inquiry” means a public local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;

“inspector” means a person appointed by the authorising authority to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;

“land” means the land to which an order relates or, where a right over land is proposed to be acquired by an order, the land over which the right would be exercised;

“ministerial order” means an order prepared in draft in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act;

“non-ministerial order” means an order made and submitted for confirmation in accordance with Part 2 of the Act;

“order” means a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7 of the Act;

“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 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;

“relevant date” means the date of the authorising authority’s notice under paragraph (2) or (3) of rule 3;

“remaining objector” means a person who has a remaining objection within the meaning of section 13A or, as the case may be, paragraph 4A (1) of Schedule 1(1);

“statement of case” means a written statement comprising—

(a)

full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at the inquiry (including where that person is the acquiring authority(2) the reasons for making the order); and

(b)

copies of, or relevant extracts from, any documents referred to in such statements and a list of any documents to which that person intends to refer or which he intends to put in evidence.

(1)

For the definition of “remaining objection”, see section 13A (1) of, or as the case may be, paragraph 4A (1) of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c.67), as inserted by sections 100(6) and 101(4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5).

(2)

For the definition of “acquiring authority” see section 7(1) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981.