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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them (that is to say):—
“Amenities,” in relation to any place, includes any view of or from that place:
“Canal” and “canal company” have respectively the same meanings as in the M1Regulation of Railways Act 1873:
“Contravention” includes, in relation to any provision, a failure to comply with that provision, and the expression “contravene” shall be construed accordingly:
“Dock” includes any pier, jetty or other place, in or at which ships can ship or unship goods or passengers:
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“Harbour” means any harbour, whether natural or artificial, and any port, haven, estuary, tidal or other river, canal or inland navigation navigated by sea-going ships and, subject to the provisions of this Act, any dock:
“Harbour authority” means any person or body of persons in whom are vested by or under any Act of Parliament powers and duties of improving, maintaining or managing a harbour, so, however, that where, as respects any dock within a harbour, such powers and duties are separately vested by or under any Act of Parliament in any person or body of persons, that person or body shall, as respects that dock, be the harbour authority, and the dock shall be deemed to be a separate harbour:
“I.W.G.” means the denominations of standards approved by Order in Council made under the M2Weights and Measures Act 1878, and dated the twenty-third day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, known as the “Imperial Wire Gauge”:
“Licensed premises” means any premises in respect of which a petroleum-spirit licence is in force under this Act:
“Motor vehicles” includes all mechanically-propelled vehicles intended or adapted for use on roads:
“Petroleum” includes crude petroleum, oil made from petroleum, or from coal, shale, peat or other bituminous substances, and other products of petroleum:
“Petroleum filling station” means any premises or place used or intended to be used by way of trade or for purposes of gain for fuelling motor vehicles with petroleum, and includes any building, advertisement, pump or other apparatus in, or used in connection with, any such premises:
“Petroleum-spirit” means such petroleum as when tested in the manner set forth in Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit:
“Petroleum-spirit licence” means a licence authorising the keeping of petroleum-spirit granted by a local authority empowered under this Act to grant such a licence or by the Secretary of State [F2or by the Health and Safety Executive]:
“Ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation, whether propelled by oars or otherwise
Textual Amendments
F1Definition of “Government inspector” repealed by S.I. 1974/1942, Sch. 1
F2Words inserted by S.I. 1974/1942, Sch. 2 para. 9
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C1Definition of “harbour authority” explained by Milford Haven Conservancy Act 1958 (c. 23), s. 1(6)
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