{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pier-and-harbour-act-1861/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/45",
  "legislation_title": "General Pier and Harbour Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pier-and-harbour-act-1861",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "The following words and expressions in this Act shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; that is to say,\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThe expression “person or persons” shall include companies, corporations, commissioners, trustees, undertakers, conservators, or individuals:\nThe word “promoters” shall apply to and include any person or persons who shall make application for a provisional order under this Act:\nThe word “works” shall include any pier, harbour, quay, wharf, jetty, or excavation, whether complete or incomplete, on or near the shore of the sea, or of any creek, bay, arm of the sea, or navigable river communicating therewith:\nThe several words and expressions contained in the clauses of any Acts incorporated with this Act shall have the meanings assigned to them by such Act or Acts, except in cases in which other meanings are expressly assigned to them by this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.S.) (15.7.1992) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(a), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt. 2; S.I. 1992/1347, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions of “The Lords of the Admiralty” and “Board of Trade” repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:11.047051+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."
}