2.—(1) In this Order—
“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961(1);
“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965(2);
“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980(3);
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(4);
“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(5);
“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;
“authorised development” means the development and associated development described in Schedule 1 (authorised development) and any other development authorised by this Order, which is development within the meaning of section 32 (meaning of development) of the 2008 Act;
“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;
“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;
“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“compulsory acquisition notice” means a notice served in accordance with section 134 of the 2008 Act;
“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—
by means of an electronic communications network; or
by other means but while in electronic form;
“environmental impact assessment” means the assessment of the environmental impact of the authorised development, the findings of which are recorded in the environmental statement and all other environmental information submitted during the examination;
“the environmental statement” means the environmental statement submitted under regulation 5(2)(a) of the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009(6) and certified as such by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“footpath” and “footway” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“the land plan” means the plan certified as the land plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation referred to in article 5 (limits of deviation);
“local planning authority” means the Cornwall Council;
“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove or reconstruct and any derivative of “maintain” is to be construed accordingly;
“Order land” means the land shown on the land plan which is land or rights to be acquired or used and described in the book of reference;
“the Order limits” means the limits shown on the works plan within which the authorised development may be carried out;
“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in section 7 (interpretation) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(7);
“the sections” means the sections identified in the definition of “approved plans” contained in requirement 1(1) (interpretation) and certified as the sections by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“the Special Category Replacement Land plans” means the plans certified as the Special Category Replacement Land plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“statutory undertaker” means any statutory undertaker for the purposes of section 127(8) (statutory undertakers’ land) of the 2008 Act;
“street” means a street within the meaning of section 48 (streets, street works and undertakers) of the 1991 Act, together with land on the verge of a street or between two carriageways, and includes part of a street;
“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;
“street plan” means the plan certified as the street plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“the tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
“undertaker” means the person who has the benefit of this Order in accordance with articles 6 (benefit of Order) and 7 (consent to transfer benefit of Order);
“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain; and
“the works plan” means the plan identified in the definition of “approved plans” contained in requirement 1(1) and certified as the works plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order.
(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do or to place and maintain, anything in, on or under land or in the airspace above its surface.
(3) All distances, directions and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work comprised in the authorised development are taken to be measured along that work.
(4) For the purposes of this Order, all areas described in square metres in the book of reference are approximate.
(5) References in this Order to points identified by letters or numbers are to be construed as references to points so lettered or numbered on the street plans as the case may be.
(6) References in this Order to numbered works are references to the works as numbered in Schedule 1 (authorised development).
S.I. 2009/2264. Regulation 5 was amended by S.I. 2012/635.
1981 c. 67. The definition of “owner” was amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 15 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34). There are other amendments to section 7 which are not relevant to this Order.