assessormeans 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 authoritymeans 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;
documentincludes a photograph, map or plan;
inquirymeans a public local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;
inspectormeans a person appointed by the authorising authority to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;
landmeans 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 ordermeans an order prepared in draft in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Act;
non-ministerial ordermeans an order made and submitted for confirmation in accordance with Part 2 of the Act;
ordermeans a compulsory purchase order as defined in section 7 of the Act;
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;
relevant datemeans the date of the authorising authority’s notice under paragraph (2) or (3) of rule 3;
remaining objectormeans 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;
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 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 the reasons for making the order);
the Actmeans the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;