{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993/article-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993/article-98.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1993/3160",
  "legislation_title": "The Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993",
  "path": "article/98",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“equipment” includes machinery, plant, apparatus and appliances;\n“ferry landing place” means a place where vehicles, persons or goods may embark on or disembark from or (as the case may be) be loaded on or unloaded from a ferry vessel;\n“ferry vessel” means a vessel used in the provision of a road ferry service;\n“harbour authority” means any person in whom are vested, under any statutory provision other than this Part, functions of improving, maintaining or managing a harbour (within the meaning of the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970;\n“road ferry service” means a service for conveying vehicles, persons and goods by means of a vessel from a place on or near a road across water to another place on or near a road;\n“road ferry undertaking” means the vessels, land, equipment, rights and other assets held for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision of a road ferry service;\n“vessel” includes a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part a ferry vessel or ferry landing place belongs to a road ferry service if it is used in the provision of that service.\n(3) References in this Part (except Article 100) to a road ferry service are to a road ferry service provided by the Department under Article 99(1) or provided on behalf of the Department by another person in pursuance of any agreement under Article 99(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1970 c. 1 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1968 c. 59"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1993/3160/article/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:47.915792+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."
}