Administration of Justice Act 1956

Interpretation

8 (1) In this Part of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—

• " Act " includes an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and " enactment" shall be construed accordingly;

• " collision regulations " means regulations under section four hundred and eighteen of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or any such rules as are mentioned in subsection (1) of section four hundred and twenty-one of that Act, or any rules made under subsection (2) of the said section four hundred and twenty-one;

• " goods " includes baggage;

• " master " has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and accordingly includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of a ship;

• " ship " includes any description of vessel used in navigation;

• " towage " and " pilotage ", in relation to an aircraft, means towage and pilotage while the aircraft is waterborne;

• " the Rhine Navigation Convention " means the Convention of the seventh of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as revised by any subsequent Convention.

(2) Any reference in this Part of this Schedule to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as it has effect in Northern Ireland.