{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-ports-regulation-act-1865/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-ports-regulation-act-1865/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/28-29/125",
  "legislation_title": "Dockyard Ports Regulation Act 1865",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-ports-regulation-act-1865",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "In this Act—\nThe term “dockyard port” means any port, harbour, haven, roadstead, sound, channel, creek, bay, or navigable river of the United Kingdom in, on, or near to which Her Majesty now or at any time hereafter has any dock, dockyard, steam factory yard, victualling yard, arsenal, wharf, or mooring:\nThe term “vessel” includes ship, boat, lighter, and craft of every kind, however propelled:\nThe term “master” applied to a vessel means the person having the command or charge of the vessel for the time being:\n...\nThe term “sheriff” means the sheriff principal of the county\n. . .\nin Scotland in which the matter submitted to the cognizance of the sheriff arises, and includes the sheriff . . . :\n. . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Definition of “vessel” extended by Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/28-29/125/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:02:22.009395+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."
}