Paragraph 8

In this Part of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Act” includes an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and “enactment” shall be construed accordingly;

• “collision regulations” F1means regulations for the prevention of collisions made under F2section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

• “goods” includes baggage;

• “master” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and accordingly includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of a ship;

• “ship” includes any description of vessel used in navigation;

• “towage” and “pilotage”, in relation to an aircraft, means towage and pilotage while the aircraft is waterborne;

• “the Rhine Navigation Convention” means the Convention of the seventh of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as revised by any subsequent Convention.

Any reference in this Part of this Schedule to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as it has effect in Northern Ireland.