acquiring authoritymeans a local authority or any person (other than a Minister) who may be authorised to purchase land compulsorily and who has made and submitted an order to the Secretary of State for confirmation in accordance withPart II;
assessormeans 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;
clearance area ordermeans a compulsory purchase order made pursuant to section 290 of the Housing Act 1985;
documentincludes a photograph, map or plan;
inquirymeans a local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;
inspectormeans a person appointed by the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;
landmeans the land to which the order relates or, where a right over land is proposed to be acquired, the land over which such a right would be exercised;
official bodymeans a Minister of the Crown or a government department;
official casemeans a written statement by an official body setting out in detail its case in support of an order;
official representationmeans a written representation made by an official body in support of an order;
ordermeans a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7, or a compulsory rights order made pursuant to section 4 of the Opencast Coal Act 1958;
outline statementmeans a written statement of the principal submissions which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry;
pre-inquiry meetingmeans 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 datemeans the date of the Secretary of State’s notice to the acquiring authority under rule 4(a);
reportincludes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended;
statement of casemeans 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 acquiring authority, the reasons for making the order), together with copies of any documents referred to in such statement, or the relevant extracts therefrom, and a list of any documents to which that person intends to refer or which he intends to put in evidence;
statement of mattersmeans a statement by the Secretary of State of the matters which appear to him to be likely to be relevant to his consideration of the order in question;
statutory objectormeans any objector to whom the Secretary of State is obliged by virtue of section 13(2) to afford an opportunity to be heard;
the 1976 Rulesmeans the Compulsory Purchase by Public Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1976.