Harbours Act 2015

Definitions

2. In this Act—

“Act of 1996” means Harbours Act 1996 ;

“chief executive” means a chief executive of a transferred company;

“company” means a company formed under section 7 of the Act of 1996;

“company transfer and dissolution day” shall be construed in accordance with section 28 ;

“company transfer day” shall be construed in accordance with section 8 ;

“dissolved company” means a company or companies specified in an order made under section 28 ;

“elected council” shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Local Government Act 2001 ;

“harbour” shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Act of 1996 (as amended by section 37 );

“harbour master” shall be construed in accordance with section 37(1) of the Act of 1996;

“local authority” means a local authority within the meaning of section 2 of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Reform Act 2014 );

“local authority chief executive”, in relation to a transferred company, means the chief executive (within the meaning of section 144 (inserted by section 54 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 ) of the Local Government Act 2001 ) of the local authority in which shares in the company have been vested by an order made under section 8 ;

“Minister” means Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport;

“subsidiary” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 (as amended by section 37 ) of the Act of 1996;

“transferred company” means a company or companies specified in an order made under section 8 .