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Merchant Shipping Act 1995, Section 223 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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223 Interpretation, etc.U.K.
(1)In this Part—
“buoys and beacons” includes all other marks and signs of the sea;
“the Commissioners of Irish Lights” means the body incorporated by that name under the local Act of the session held in the 30th and 31st years of the reign of Queen Victoria intituled “An Act to alter the constitution of the Corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin and for other purposes connected with that body and with the Port of Dublin Corporation”;
“general light dues” has the meaning given in section 205(1);
“lighthouse” includes any floating and other light exhibited for the guidance of ships, and also any sirens and any other description of fog signals, and also any addition to a lighthouse of any improved light, or any siren, or any description of fog signal;
“the Trinity House” means the master, wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond in the county of Kent, commonly called the corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond;
“the 1894 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.
(2)Any reference in this Part to a lighthouse, buoy or beacon includes its appurtenances.
(3)The Secretary of State may by order provide that references or a particular reference to a buoy or beacon in this Part shall be construed as including, in such circumstances as are specified in the order, equipment of a kind so specified which is intended as an aid in the navigation of ships.
(4)No order shall be made under subsection (3) above unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
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