Section 7: Interpretation., Acquisition of Land Act 1981

In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, and

in relation to compulsory purchase under any enactment, includes anything falling within any definition of the expression in that enactment,

a billing authority or a precepting authority, as defined in section 69 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

the London Fire Commissioner;

a fire and rescue authority in Wales constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;

a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 ;

a body as regards which section 75 of that Act applies;

any joint board or joint committee if all the constituent authorities are such authorities as are described in paragraphs (a) to (c); and

the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple or the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple,

"acquiring authority", in relation to a compulsory purchase, means the Minister, local authority or other person who may be authorised to purchase the land compulsorily,
"appropriate website", in relation to a notice about a proposed compulsory purchase, means a website which members of the public could reasonably be expected to find on searching on the internet for information about the scheme or project that underlies the proposed purchase,
"compulsory purchase order" means an order under section 2(1) above,
"confirming authority", in relation to a compulsory purchase, means, where the acquiring authority is not a Minister, the Minister having power to authorise the acquiring authority to purchase the land compulsorily,
"land"—
"local authority" means—
"National Trust" means the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty incorporated by the National Trust Act 1907,
"owner" in relation to any land, means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the land, whether in possession or in reversion, and includes also a person holding or entitled to the rents and profits of the land under a lease or agreement, the unexpired term whereof exceeds three years and a person who would have power to sell and convey or release the land to the acquiring authority if a compulsory purchase order were operative,
"prescribed": see subsection (2) below.

Anything which, by Part II or III of this Act, or Schedule 1 or 3 of this Act, is required or authorised to be prescribed shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.

But an instrument containing regulations made for the purposes of section 13A or 13BA or section 15A(11) or paragraph 4A or 4AA of Schedule 1 is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

So far as anything is required or authorised to be prescribed as mentioned in subsection (2) in relation to orders that fall to be made or confirmed by the Welsh Ministers—

the reference in that subsection to the Secretary of State is to be read as a reference to the Welsh Ministers, and

the reference in subsection (3) to either House of Parliament is to be read as a reference to Senedd Cymru.

Section 7: Interpretation.

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