The Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993

Interpretation of this Part N.I.

98.—(1) In this Part—

• “equipment” includes machinery, plant, apparatus and appliances;

• “ferry landing place” means a place where vehicles, persons or goods may embark on or disembark from or (as the case may be) be loaded on or unloaded from a ferry vessel;

• “ferry vessel” means a vessel used in the provision of a road ferry service;

• “harbour authority” means any person in whom are vested, under any statutory provision other than this Part, functions of improving, maintaining or managing a harbour (within the meaning of the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970F1 ;

• “road ferry service” means a service for conveying vehicles, persons and goods by means of a vessel from a place on or near a road across water to another place on or near a road;

• “road ferry undertaking” means the vessels, land, equipment, rights and other assets held for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision of a road ferry service;

• “vessel” includes a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968F2 .

(2) For the purposes of this Part a ferry vessel or ferry landing place belongs to a road ferry service if it is used in the provision of that service.

(3) References in this Part (except Article 100) to a road ferry service are to a road ferry service provided by the Department under Article 99(1) or provided on behalf of the Department by another person in pursuance of any agreement under Article 99(2).

F1 1970 c. 1 (N.I.)

F2 1968 c. 59