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2. In this Order the following expressions have, except where otherwise expressly provided, the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
“aircraft” means a fixed wing, swivel wing, rotary wing, tilt rotor or tilt wing airborne vehicle or helicopter;
“body corporate” includes a Scottish partnership and, in relation to such a partnership, any reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner;
“commander”, in relation to an aircraft, means the member of the flight crew designated as commander of the aircraft by the operator thereof, or, failing such a person, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;
“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;
“document” includes information recorded in any form, and in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in legible form;
“export” includes shipment as stores;
“master”, in relation to a ship, includes any person (other than a pilot) for the time being in charge of the ship;
“military goods” means the goods, software and technology specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008(1) made under the Export Control Act 2002(2);
“operator”, in relation to an aircraft or vehicle, means the person for the time being having the management of the aircraft or vehicle;
“owner”, in relation to a ship, where the owner is not the operator, means the operator and any person to whom it is chartered;
“procurement” means procurement by whatever means, including but not limited to by purchase, import or transport, and including by using any ship, aircraft or vehicle to which article 5 of this Order applies;
“ship” has the meaning it bears in section 313 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(3);
“ship supply services” means the provision to a ship of bunker oil or any other supply, provision or service, other than basic provisions for the crew, to facilitate a voyage by that ship;
“shipment” (and cognate expressions) and “stores” shall have the meanings they bear in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(4);
“vehicle” means a land transport vehicle.
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