# The Caledonian Maritime Assets (Port Ellen Works) Harbour Revision Order 2025, Article 2: Interpretation


(1) In this Order—
“the 1846 Act” means An Act for improving and maintaining the Harbour of Port Ellen in the County of Argyll 1846,
“the 1995 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995,
“the 1975 Order” means the Scottish Transport Group (Port Ellen Harbour) Order 1975,
“the 2011 Order” means the Caledonian Maritime Assets (Port Ellen) Harbour Revision Order 2011,
“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,
“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,
“deposited plans, sections and elevations” means “The Caledonian Maritime Assets (Port Ellen Works) Harbour Revision Order 2025 Plans, Sections and Elevations” signed with reference to this Order and which are deposited at the offices of the Scottish Government at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ and at the registered office of CMAL, and a reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to that numbered sheet bound in the deposited plans, sections and elevations,
“harbour” means Port Ellen Harbour the limits of which are defined in article 13 of the 1975 Order and includes the works authorised by this Order,
“harbour facilities” includes, but is not limited to, shipping, fisheries, marine, energy, fuel and alternative power, recreational, residential, leisure, tourism and retail facilities (including buildings),
“hovercraft” means a vehicle which is designed to be supported when in motion wholly or partly by air expelled from the vehicle to form a cushion of which the boundaries include the ground, water or other surface beneath the vehicle,
“the level of high water” means the level of mean high water spring tides,
“the Port Ellen Harbour Acts and Orders 1846 to 2011” means the 1846 Act, the 1975 Order and the 2011 Order,
“tidal work” means so much of any of the work as is on, under or over tidal waters or tidal land below the level of high water,
“undertaking” means the undertaking carried on by CMAL at and in connection with the harbour authorised by this Order and the Port Ellen Harbour Acts and Order 1846 to 2011,
“vehicle” includes any vehicle propelled on rails, any machinery on wheels or caterpillar tracks, trailers, caravans, bicycles, and mobile homes and includes a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle,
“vessel” includes a ship, boat, houseboat, raft or craft of any description, however propelled or moved, and includes non-displacement craft, a watercraft, a seaplane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for floating on or being submersed in water (whether permanently or temporarily),
“watercraft” means a “watercraft” as defined in article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023,
“work” means the works authorised by this Order, or as the case may require, any part thereof and includes any work constructed pursuant to article 3 (power to construct works) or article 5 (subsidiary works).
(2) In this Order, all areas, directions, distances, lengths, widths, heights and grid references as stated in any description of works, powers or lands other than article 4 (power to deviate) shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such area, direction, distance, length, width, height and grid reference.
(3) Any reference in this Order to a work identified by a number is a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order.
(4) Any reference in this Order to a numbered sheet is a reference to that numbered sheet in the deposited plans, sections and elevations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/246/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/caledonian-maritime-assets-port-ellen-works-harbour-revision-order-2025/article-2
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