Fire Services Act 1947

38 Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

• " appointed day " means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint;

• " chief officer of police ", " police area ", " police authority " and " police force " have the same meanings respectively as in the Police Pensions Act, 1921;

• " equipment " includes fire engines and other vehicles and appliances and other apparatus, and also uniforms and badges of rank;

• " fire authority " means an authority which for the time being is constituted a fire authority by this Act or any combination scheme made thereunder;

• " fire-fighting purposes " means the purposes of the extinction of fires and the protection of life and property in case of fire;

• " street " includes any highway, including a highway over any bridge and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage whether a thoroughfare or not.

(2) References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.

(3) References in this Act to a fire authority under the Fire Brigades Act, 1938, and to a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of that Act respectively include references to the London County Council and the London Fire Brigade.