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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumfries-and-galloway-council-stranraer-harbour-revision-order-2024/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2024/325",
  "legislation_title": "The Dumfries and Galloway Council (Stranraer) Harbour Revision Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumfries-and-galloway-council-stranraer-harbour-revision-order-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1847 Act” means the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847;\n“the 1964 Act” means the Harbours Act 1964;\n“the 1977 Act” means the British Railways Order Confirmation Act 1977;\n“the 1995 Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“charges” means charges, dues and tolls of every description for the time being payable under any enactment to the Council in relation to the harbour undertaking;\n“Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses” means the general lighthouse authority for Scotland, a body corporate constituted by section 193 of, and Schedule 8 to, the 1995 Act;\n“Compulsory Consultees” means Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Royal Yachting Association Scotland, Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, Loch Ryan Statutory Harbour Authority Committee, UK Chamber of Shipping and such other users of the harbour as the Council considers appropriate;\n“the Council” means Dumfries and Galloway Council;\n“deposited plan” means the plan signed in duplicate with reference this order and marked ‘‘Stranraer Harbour Limits’ and pursuant to article 4 of which copies are signed, dated and deposited at the offices of the Scottish Ministers at the Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ and with the Council at 109-115 English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2HR;\n“East Pier” means the pier or such part of it outwith the ownership of the Council and outwith the harbour limits situated to the south east of the harbour and identified on the harbour limits plan as being the ‘East Pier’;\n“general direction” means a direction given under article 17;\n“harbour” means the harbour at Stranraer comprised within the harbour limits;\n“harbour limits” means the limits of the harbour as defined in article 4;\n“harbour limits plan” means the plan signed in duplicate with reference this order and marked ‘Stranraer Harbour Limits’ and pursuant to article 4 of which copies are signed, dated and deposited at the offices of the Scottish Ministers at the Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ and with the Council at 109-115 English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2HR;\n“harbour master” means any person appointed as such by the Council and includes that person’s deputies and assistants and any other person for the time being authorised by the Council to act, either generally or for a specific purpose, in the capacity of harbour master;\n“harbour premises” means the quays, piers, landing places and all other works, land and buildings vested in or occupied or administered by the Council as part of the harbour undertaking as shown on the harbour premises plan within the area delineated in green;\n“harbour premises plan” means the plan signed in duplicate with reference to this order and marked ‘The Stranraer Harbour Revision Order 2024 and subtitled ‘harbour premises’ dated April 2024;\n“harbour undertaking” means the harbour undertaking of the Council at Stranraer;\n“master” in relation to a vessel means any person for the time being having or taking the command, charge or management of the vessel;\n“personal watercraft” means a watercraft intended for sports and leisure purposes of less than 4 metres in hull length which uses a propulsion engine having a water jet pump as its primary source of propulsion and designed to be operated by a person or persons sitting, standing or kneeling on, rather than within the confines of, a hull;\n“water-craft” for the purposes of article 15(2)(j) means any water craft (not being a structure which by reason of its shape provides buoyancy for the carriage of persons or goods) propelled by a jet engine or other mechanical means of propulsion and steered (and does not include a ship or fishing vessel within the meanings given in section 313(1) of the 1995 Act) which is either—\n(a) capable of moving under its own mechanical power; and/or\n(b) used, navigated or situated wholly or partly in or on water; and/or\n(c) is capable of being used to carry one or more persons; and/or\n(d) by a combination of the methods referred to respectively in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c); and/or\n(e) is autonomous;\n“special direction” means a direction given under article 19; and\n“vessel” means a ship, boat, raft or craft of any description however propelled or moved, and includes a displacement craft, a non-displacement craft, a personal watercraft, a sea plane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel or any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for floating on or being submersed in water (whether permanently or temporarily).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1847 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1977 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/325/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:38:16.812529+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."
}