Administration of Justice Act 1956

Interpretation E+W+N.I.

8 (1) In this Part of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires— E+W+N.I.

• “Act” includes an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and “enactment” shall be construed accordingly;

• “collision regulations” [F1 means regulations for the prevention of collisions made under [F2 section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995]];

• “goods” includes baggage;

• “master” has the same meaning as in the [F2 Merchant Shipping Act 1995], and accordingly includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of a ship;

• “ship” includes any description of vessel used in navigation;

• “towage” and “pilotage”, in relation to an aircraft, means towage and pilotage while the aircraft is waterborne;

• “the Rhine Navigation Convention” means the Convention of the seventh of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as revised by any subsequent Convention.

(2) Any reference in this Part of this Schedule to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as it has effect in Northern Ireland.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1983/708, Sch. 2 Pt. I

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 29(4)(c) (with s. 312(1))

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reference to an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to be construed as including reference to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly: Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 1