# The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993, Article 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In this Order, except for the purpose of construing the international articles or the supplementary articles or the 2012 Agreement, and in any enactment as applied by it with modifications, any expression for which there is an entry in the first column of Schedule 1 has the meaning given against it in the second column.
(2) In this Order “the authorised purposes” means—
(a) purposes for which provision is authorised by any of paragraphs (a), (d) and (g), and
(b) purposes connected with any matter in relation to or with respect to or for regulating which provision is authorised by any of paragraphs (c), (e), (f) and (h),
of section 11(1) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.
(3) In this Order “the international articles” means the provisions set out in Schedule 2 (being Articles or parts of Articles of the Protocol mentioned in article 1 above); and in the international articles the expression “the Fixed Link” shall for the purposes of this Order be taken to have the same meaning as is given to “the tunnel system” by section 1(7) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.
(4) In this Order “the supplementary articles” means the provisions set out in Schedule 2A (being Articles of the Additional Protocol between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic and amendments to those Articles made by the amending instrument), and in the supplementary articles “the Protocol signed at Sangatte” and “the Sangatte Protocol” mean the Protocol mentioned in article 1 above.
(5) In paragraph (4) and in the supplementary articles, “Additional Protocol” means the Additional Protocol to the Sangatte Protocol on the Establishment of Bureaux Responsible for Controls on Persons Travelling by Train between France and the United Kingdom, signed at Brussels on 29th May 2000.
(6) In paragraph (4) “the amending instrument” means the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic making amendments to the Additional Protocol to the Sangatte Protocol on the Establishment of Bureaux responsible for controls on persons travelling by train between the United Kingdom and France, and to the Agreement concerning the carrying of service weapons by French officers on the territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, signed in Paris on 18th June 2007.
(7) In this Order, the “2012 Agreement” means the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of France on Implementation of the Cyclamen Device in the French Terminal of the Channel Tunnel Situated in Coquelles signed in London on 10th May 2012.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1813/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-1993/article-2
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