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Section 21 Interpretation.

United Kingdom

In this Act—

  • “enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly;

  • “International Energy Agency” and “International Energy Agreement” mean, respectively, the body established by the Decision of the Council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on 15th November 1974, and the Agreement on an International Energy Program signed at Paris on 18th November 1974;

  • “natural gas” means any gas derived from natural strata;

  • F1“the OGA” means the Oil and Gas Authority;

  • “petroleum products” means the following substances produced directly or indirectly from crude, that is to say, fuels, lubricants, bitumen, wax, industrial spirits and any wide-range substance (meaning a substance whose final boiling point at normal atmospheric pressure is more than 50°C higher than its initial boiling point);

  • “price controls” means orders under section 1(4) of this Act and directions under section 2 imposing requirements as to price;

  • X1“Standard Industrial Classification” has the meaning assigned to it by section 6(2) of the F2the Industry Act 1972M1the Industrial Development Act 1982

  • F3“Standard Industrial Classification” means the revised edition published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1968 of the publication of that name prepared by the Central Statistical Office F4of the Chancellor of the Exchequer;

  • “undertaking” includes a business, and also any activity carried on by a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate; and

  • “United Kingdom legislation” includes any enactment for the time being in force in any part of the United Kingdom.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 21 inserted (1.10.2016) by Energy Act 2016 (c. 20), s. 84(3), Sch. 1 para. 5; S.I. 2016/920, reg. 2(a)

F2

Words substituted (N.I.) by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), Sch. 2 para. 14

F3

Words substituted (E.W.S.) by Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Act 1984 (c. 57, SIF 64), s. 5(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 2

F4

Words inserted by S.I. 1989/992, art. 6(4), Sch. 2 para. 2(b)

Marginal citations

M1

1982 c. 52.

Editorial notes

X1

Words substituted (E.W.S.) by Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Act 1984 (c. 57, SIF 64), s. 5(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 2