Section 2 Interpretation

In these byelaws—

• “aircraft” includes any craft or device which is for the time being airborne;

• “Appointed Person” means the Crown servant who has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Defence to be responsible for the Protected Area and Controlled Area;

• “Controlled Area” means the area of land that is coloured blue on the byelaws map set out in the Schedule to these byelaws;

• “firearm” has the same meaning as in the Firearms Act 1968^f1;

• “headquarters” means a headquarters or organisation designated by an Order in Council under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964^f2;

• “lawful user” means any constable, Crown servant, member of a visiting force or headquarters, employee of AWE plc or its contractors and agents, or person in possession of a written permission from the Appointed Person;

• “offensive weapon” means any article—

  1. (a)

     made or adapted for use for causing injury to persons, animals or birds or for trapping animals or birds; or

  2. (b)

     intended by the person having it with him for such use or for threatening such use by him or by some other person;

• “Protected Area” means the area of land that is coloured pink on the byelaws map set out in the Schedule to these byelaws;

• “service authorities” means naval, military or air force authorities;

• “short lead” means a lead of fixed length and of not more than two metres;

• “site exempt vehicle” means any vehicle used solely within the confines of the Protected Area and the Controlled Area by a lawful user; and

• “visiting force” means any body, contingent or detachment of the forces of a country for the time being present in the United Kingdom on the invitation of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and any member of the civilian component of that force as defined in section 10 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952^f3.

The Protected Area and the Controlled Area together comprise an area of land known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment Blacknest shown for illustrative purposes only on the location map set out in the Schedule to these byelaws.