{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chichester-harbour-revision-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/705",
  "legislation_title": "The Chichester Harbour Revision Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chichester-harbour-revision-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Chichester Harbour Conservancy Act 1971;\n“Advisory Committee” means the consultative body established by the Conservancy in accordance with the requirements of section 11 of the 1971 Act (Chichester Harbour Conservancy Advisory Committee);\n“ashore” means all those parts of the harbour not within the wet harbour area;\n“the Conservancy” means the Chichester Harbour Conservancy constituted by section 5 of the 1971 Act (constitution of conservancy);\n“general direction” means a direction given under article 3 (power to make general directions as to the use of the harbour, etc.);\n“harbour” means the harbour as defined in subsection (1) of section 3 of the 1971 Act (interpretation) the limits of which are described in section 82 of the 1971 Act (limits of harbour);\n“harbour master” means any person appointed as such by the Conservancy, and includes the duly authorised deputies and assistants of the harbour master and any other person authorised by the Conservancy to act, either generally or for a specific purpose, in the capacity of harbour master;\n“harbour operations” include—\n(a) the marking, lighting or dredging of the harbour or any part of the harbour;\n(b) the berthing, mooring, dry docking or storage of a vessel;\n(c) the laying and maintenance of moorings or other similar apparatus in the harbour;\n(d) the warehousing, sorting, weighing or handling of goods;\n(e) the movement of goods and vehicles (including parking, designated and prohibited areas, speed limits and removal from the harbour);\n(f) the towing, or moving of a vessel;\n(g) the loading or unloading of goods, or embarking or disembarking of passengers;\n(h) energy generation or storage;\n(i) the control of use of the harbour by members of the public and other third parties (including movement, conduct, authorised activities and designated and prohibited areas) but not so as to cause an interference with any public right of way;\n“harbour premises” means land adjacent to the wet harbour area vested in, occupied or administered (for the time being) by the Conservancy as part of the harbour undertaking and occupied wholly or mainly for the purposes of activities there carried on, which may include docks, quays, piers, wharves, berths, locks, breakwaters, landing places, yards, roads, sheds, car parks, other buildings and all other works and conveniences, land and premises;\n“harbour undertaking” means the undertaking of the Conservancy as set out in this Order and the 1971 Act;\n“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;\n“master” in relation to a vessel, means any person having or taking command, charge, management or conduct of the vessel;\n“special direction” means a direction given under article 6 (special directions);\n“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;\n“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;\n“vessel” includes a ship, boat, houseboat, raft or craft of any description, however propelled or moved, and includes non-displacement craft, watercraft, a hydrofoil vessel, or an amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for floating on or being submersed in water (whether permanently or temporarily);\n“watercraft” means any type of craft which—\n(a) is capable of moving under its own mechanical power;\n(b) is used, navigated or situated wholly or partially in or on water; and\n(c) is capable of being used to carry one or more persons,\nbut does not include a ship or fishing vessel within the meanings given in section 313(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“wet harbour area” means those parts of the harbour which are covered by water at the level of mean low-water springs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. lxx."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "As amended by article 11 of this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Corporation of Trinity House, Tower Hill, London EC3N 4DH."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "As defined in section 57 (interpretation) of the Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/705/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:47.315437+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."
}