{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lough-neagh-and-lower-bann-drainage-and-navigation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lough-neagh-and-lower-bann-drainage-and-navigation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1955/15",
  "legislation_title": "Lough Neagh and Lower Bann Drainage and Navigation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lough-neagh-and-lower-bann-drainage-and-navigation-act-northern-ireland-1955",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n[ “Lands Tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland;]\n“Lough Neagh” includes the waters thereof;\n“Lough Neagh drainage district” means the district of Lough Neagh as defined in the drainage award made by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland dated the fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine …;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by the Ministry;\n“transferred provision” has the same meaning as in paragraph ( g) of section one of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland), 1954 1954 c.33; and\n“works” include compensatory or remedial works.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1964 c. 29 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1973 NI 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1955/15/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:27.574756+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."
}