The Town and Country Planning (Churches, Places of Religious Worship and Burial Grounds) Regulations 1950

2.—(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, as amended by the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947;

“the Minister” means the Minister of Town and Country Planning;

“acquiring or appropriating authority” includes any person deriving title from or under that authority;

“the appropriate denominational authority” means, in the case of consecrated land, the Bishop, and in the case of any other land, such person or persons as shall be designated for the purpose by the controlling body of the religious denomination for whose purposes the land has been or is being used;

“the Bishop” means the Bishop of the diocese in which the land is situate;

“land” means any land which has been or is deemed by virtue of paragraph 19 of the Tenth Schedule to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, to have been acquired by a purchasing authority under Part IV of that Act or has been appropriated by a local authority as mentioned in subsection 1 of Section 19 of the Act and which at the time of acquisition or appropriation was consecrated land, or included any church or other building used or formerly used for religious worship, or the site thereof, or consisted of a burial ground or part of a burial ground;

“medical officer of health” includes a district medical officer of health under the Public Health (London) Act, 1936.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.