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(1)In this Act—
“appointing authority” means any of the persons mentioned in section 1(3)(a) or (b);
“the Broads” has the meaning given by section 2(3);
“
” has the meaning given by section 10(7)(b);“commercial vessel” means any vessel which is not a pleasure craft;
“the Commissioners” means the Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Commissioners;
“the deposited map” means the set of maps dated November 1986 deposited in connection with the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons;
“financial year” means the period of twelve months ending with 31st March in any year;
“the Haven” means (subject to subsection (3) below and paragraph 5 of Schedule 7) the area of the Haven of Great Yarmouth as defined in section 5 of the M1Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Act 1866;
“hovercraft” has the same meaning as in the M2Hovercraft Act 1968;
“inland waters” has the same meaning as in the M3Water Resources Act 1963;
“the Ministers” means the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly;
“
” has the meaning given by section 8(1);“
” has the meaning given by section 8(2);“
” has the meaning given by section 10(7)(a);“operative date” means the date specified by order under section 26(4) of this Act;
“owner”, in relation to a pleasure craft which is registered with the Authority in accordance with byelaws made under section 10(3), means the person in whose name the craft is registered;
“participating authority” means a local authority mentioned in section 1(3)(a);
“passenger boat” means a pleasure craft which is carrying, or is available to carry, members of the general public for hire or reward;
“pleasure craft” means any vessel used for sport or recreation, whether hired or privately owned, and includes a houseboat;
“staithe” means any land which is adjacent to a waterway and which the inhabitants of the locality are entitled to use as a landing place;
“statutory undertaker” means—
(a)any person who is a statutory undertaker for the purposes of [F1the Town and Country Planning Act 1990];
(b)any other person who exercises functions under [F2 the Land Drainage Act 1991];
[F3(c)any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker whose area includes any part of the Broads; and]
[F3(d)]any person to whom the telecommunications code set out in Schedule 2 to the M4Telecommunications Act 1984 is applied by a licence under section 7 of that Act;
“Trinity House” means the Trinity House as defined in section [F4223 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995];
“vessel” includes a sailboard;
“works licence” has the meaning given by section 11.
(2)References in this Act to conserving the natural beauty of an area include references to conserving its flora, fauna and geological and physiographical features.
(3)For the purpose of this Act, the boundary between the Haven and the navigation area shall be determined by reference to a notional line drawn—
(a)in the case of the river Bure, between grid references TG 5190 1009 and TG 5193 1012;
(b)in the case of the river Yare, between grid references TG 4700 511 and TG 4696 520; and
(c)in the case of the river Waveney, between grid references TG 4722 379 and TG 4725 375;
“grid references” meaning the national grid references used for Ordnance Survey mapping.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c.11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 76
F2S. 25(1): words in sub-para. (b) in the definition of "statutory undertakers" substituted (1.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 2(1), 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 47
F3In the definition of “statutory undertaker” for the words “and (c)” there is substituted a new para. (c) and the old para. (c) is renumbered para. (d) by S.I. 1989/1380, regs. 3(1), 4(b)
F4Words in definition of "Trinity House" in s. 25(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 82 (with s. 312(1))
Marginal Citations
M11866 c. ccxlvii.
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