Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires–

• “the Board” means the Harwich Harbour Board;

• “the Company” means the Harwich Dock Company Limited;

• “deposited plan” and “deposited sections” mean respectively the plan and sections prepared in triplicate signed by the Chief Executive of the Board and an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transport and marked “Plan and sections referred to in the Harwich Dock Company Harbour Empowerment Order 1988” of which copies are deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, the offices of the Board and the registered office of the Company;

• “the dock undertaking” means the undertaking of the Company at the harbour as authorised by this Order;

• “the harbour” means Harwich harbour;

• “the Harbour Master” has the same meaning as in the Harwich Harbour Act 1974^f1;

• “level of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;

• “limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plan;

• “subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985^f2;

• “tidal work” means so much of any work authorised by this Order as is on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands below the level of high water;

• “Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;

• “vessel” means a ship, boat or raft of any description and includes any other thing constructed or adapted for floating on or being submersed in water (whether permanently or temporarily); and includes a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968^f3 or any other amphibious vehicle or a seaplane;

• “the works” means the works authorised by article 5 of this Order, and any works constructed under article 7 of this Order for or in connection with or subsidiary to either of those works and includes those works as reconstructed, renewed, altered, extended, enlarged, added to, replaced or relaid under paragraph (2) of the said article 5.

References in this Order to reference points shall be construed as references to National Grid reference points.

Any reference in this Order to a distance or length in any description of works, powers or land shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after that reference.