assessormeans a person appointed by the Minister to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or reopened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Minister may specify;
documentincludes a photograph, map or plan;
inquirymeans a local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;
inspectormeans a person appointed by the Minister to hold an inquiry or a reopened 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;
ordermeans a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7;
outline statementmeans in relation to a person a written statement of the principal submissions which that 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 Minister’s notice under rule 4;
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 an inquiry (including where that person is the Minister the reasons for making the order), and a list of any documents which that person intends to refer to or put in evidence;
statutory objectormeans any objector on whom the Minister is obliged by virtue of paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to serve a notice of the draft order and whose objection has not been withdrawn.
the Ministermeans the Minister of the Crown who has, in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1, prepared in draft an order authorising the compulsory purchase of land by him;