The Planning(Northern Ireland) Order 1991

Interpretation of Part XII

118.—(1) In this Part—“the appropriate authority”, in relation to any land, means—

(a) in the case of land belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown and forming part of the Crown Estate, the Crown Estate Commissioners;

(b) in the case of any other land belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, the government department having the management of that land;

(c) in the case of land belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, that government department;

“conservation area consent” means consent under Article 51;

“Crown estate” means an estate belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, or belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department;

“Crown land” means land in which there is a Crown estate;

“government department” means a department of the Government of the United Kingdom or a Northern Ireland department;

“private estate” means an estate which is not a Crown estate.

(2) In this Part references to the disposal of an estate in Crown land include references to the grant of an estate in such land.

(3) A person who is entitled to occupy Crown land by virtue of a licence in writing shall be treated for the purposes of Articles 114 to 116 as having an estate in land, and references in Article 114 to the disposal of an interest in Crown land, and in that Article and Articles 115 and 116 to a private estate in such land, shall be construed accordingly.