{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2820",
  "legislation_title": "The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1847 Act” means the Commissioners' Clauses Act 1847;\n“appointing authority” means any of the persons by whom Commissioners are, or are to be, appointed in accordance with article 4 below and includes the selection panel;\n“the Chairman” means the Chairman of the Commissioners;\n“the Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Commissioners;\n“the Commissioners” means the Poole Harbour Commissioners;\n“first appointments” means the first appointments to be made after the coming into force of this Order;\n“the harbour” means the area as defined in sections 3 and 4 of Poole Harbour Act 1914;\n“the new constitution date” means 1st November 2001;\n“the selection panel” means the panel constituted under article 5 below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1847 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1914 c. clv."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2820/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:30:59.343030+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."
}