{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1405",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, except for the purpose of construing the tripartite articles, 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.\n(2) In this Order “the authorised purposes” means—\n(a) purposes for which provision is authorised by any of paragraphs (a), (d) and (g), and\n(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),\nof section 11(1) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.\n(3) In this Order “the tripartite articles” means the provisions set out—\n(a) in Part I of Schedule 2 (being Articles or parts of Articles of the Agreement mentioned in article 1 above), and\n(b) in Part II of Schedule 2 (being Articles or parts of Articles of the Protocol attached to and forming part of that Agreement);\n(c) in Part III of Schedule 2 (being Articles or parts of Articles of the Protocol attached to and forming part of the Agreement, as applied by the Administrative Arrangement to immigration controls upon persons travelling on international trains making a commercial stop)\nand in the tripartite 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(3)(c) inserted (25.10.2004) by The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2589), arts. 1, 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 comes into force on the date the Agreement enters into force in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/409",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/409",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/915",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/915",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/915",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/915",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1405/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:32:41.686866+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."
}