{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larne-harbour-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larne-harbour-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/221",
  "legislation_title": "Larne Harbour Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larne-harbour-order-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Company” means Larne Harbour Limited;\n“Department” means the Department of the Environment;\n“harbour master” means the harbour master appointed by the Company and any person authorised by the Company to act in that capacity;\n“level of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;\n“master” means any person other than a pilot for the time being having or taking the command, charge, possession or management of a vessel whether lawfully or wrongfully;\n“oil” means oil of any description and includes spirit produced from oil of any description and also includes coal tar and a mixture containing oil;\n“owner” when used with reference to any vessel means the owner of a vessel and any person having any interest in a vessel (whether as joint owner, lessee, charterer, mortgagee or otherwise);\n“port” means the port of Larne, the limits of which are set out or referred to in Article 5 (area of jurisdiction);\n“vessel” means every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes—\n(a) anything constructed or used to carry persons or goods by water;\n(b) any rig, platform or other man-made structure on or in the water; and\n(c) a seaplane on or in the water, a hovercraft and a hydrofoil vessel.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 29.7.1998, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/221/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:52.500815+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."
}