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Regulation 6

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(1)

These Regulations shall come into operation on the fifteenth day after the date on which these Regulations are made and may be cited as the Civil Defence (Transport) Regulations, 1954.

(2)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

  • “the Minister” means the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation;

  • “Public utility undertakers” means any persons authorised by any enactment or order to construct, work or carry on any railway, canal, inland navigation, dock or harbour undertaking and includes the British Transport Commission in relation to the railway, canal, inland navigation or dock and harbour parts of their undertaking as the case may be.

(3)

The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.