Part IV.—Supplemental Provisions, Legal Proceedings, Exemptions, and Definitions
Definitions
108 General definitions.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
The expression “person” includes a body corporate:
The expression “occupier” includes any number of persons and a body corporate; and in the case of any manufacture or trade, includes any person carrying on such manufacture or trade:
The expression “master” includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of a ship, and in reference to any boat belonging to a ship, means the master of the ship; and when used in reference to any other boat, includes every person having command or charge of such boat:
The expression “magazine” includes any ship or other vessel used for the purpose of keeping any explosive:
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The expression “warehouseman” includes all persons owning or managing any warehouse, store, wharf, or other premises in which goods are deposited:
The expression “carrier” includes all persons carrying goods or passengers for hire by land or water:
The expression “tidal water” means any part of the sea or of a river within the ebb and flow of the tides at ordinary spring tides:
The expression “inland water” means any canal, river, navigation, lake, or water which is not tidal water:
The expression “wharf” includes any quay, landing–place, siding, or other place at which goods are landed, loaded, or unloaded:
The expression “carriage” includes any carriage, waggon, cart, truck, vehicle, or other means of conveying goods or passengers by land, in whatever manner the same may be propelled:
The expression “ship” includes every description of vessel used in sea navigation, whether propelled by oars or otherwise:
The expression “boat” means every vessel not a ship as above defined which is used in navigation in any inland water or any harbour, whether propelled by oars or otherwise:
The expression “prescribed” means prescribed by Order in Council:
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F9The expression “road”has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.