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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“Act” includes an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and “enactment” shall be construed accordingly;\n“collision regulations” means regulations for the prevention of collisions made under section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“goods” includes baggage;\n“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;\n“ship” includes any description of vessel used in navigation;\n“towage” and “pilotage”, in relation to an aircraft, means towage and pilotage while the aircraft is waterborne;\n“the Rhine Navigation Convention” means the Convention of the seventh of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as revised by any subsequent Convention.\n(2) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1983/708, Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 29(4)(c) (with s. 312(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to be construed as including reference to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly: Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 1"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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