{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ardrossan-transfer-of-undertaking-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/205",
  "legislation_title": "The Ardrossan (Transfer of Undertaking) Harbour Revision Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ardrossan-transfer-of-undertaking-harbour-revision-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1864 Act” means the Ardrossan Harbour Consolidation Act 1864,\n“the 1886 Act” means the Ardrossan Harbour (Sale and Transfer) Act 1886,\n“the 1909 Order” means the Ardrossan Harbour Order 1909,\n“the 1919 Order” means the Ardrossan Harbour Order 1919,\n“the 1977 Order” means the Ardrossan Harbour Revision Order 1977,\n“the 1995 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995,\n“the 2020 Order” means the Ardrossan Harbour Revision Order 2020,\n“the Ardrossan Acts and Orders 1864 to 2020” means the 1864 Act, the 1886 Act, the 1909 Order, the 1919 Order, the 1977 Order and the 2020 Order,\n“CMAL” means Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland with registered number SC001854, having its principal place of business at Municipal Buildings, Fore Street, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire PA14 5EQ,\n“the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses” means the general lighthouse authority for Scotland, a body corporate constituted by section 193 and schedule 8 of the 1995 Act,\n“the Company” means Ardrossan Harbour Company Limited, a company originally incorporated as the Ardrossan Harbour Company by the 1886 Act, thereafter registered as a limited company and now registered as such in Scotland under the Companies Acts (registered company number SC045455) having its registered office at 16 Robertson Street, Glasgow, G2 8DS,\n“the harbour” has the meaning given in section 3 of the 1886 Act (interpretation) together with section 2 of the 1864 Act (interpretation), the limits of which are described in section 22 of the 1864 Act (limits of the Harbour defined),\n“the harbour undertaking” means the undertaking authorised by the Ardrossan Acts and Orders 1864 to 2020 and transferred by this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1864 c. ccviii (27 & 28 Vict) ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1886 c. xxxiv (50 Vict) ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1909 c. cxii (9 Edw 7) ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1919 c. xciii (9 & 10 Geo 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/933."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2020/306."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Schedule 8 of the 1995 Act was amended by section 55 of the Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/205/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:29:46.383329+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}