Whitehaven Harbour Act 2007

2 Interpretation

In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires—

• “the Big Lottery Fund” includes any statutory or other successor to the functions of the Big Lottery Fund being functions which are relevant to the project assets;

• “the Commissioners” means the Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners;

• “the harbour” has the meaning given by article 2 (interpretation) of the Whitehaven Harbour Revision Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1627);

• “the Millennium Agreement” means the agreement made between the Millennium Commission and W3M Charitable Foundation and dated 18th March 1999, as varied by the supplemental agreement made on the same date between the Millennium Commission, W3M Charitable Foundation and W3M (Trading) Limited and certified copies of which have been deposited at—

  (a)

  the offices of the Commissioners; and

  (b)

  Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Scotch Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7NL;

• “the Millennium Commission” means the body corporate which was established by section 40 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (c. 39) and which was dissolved on 1st December 2006 by the National Lottery Distributors Dissolution Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2915) and whose property rights and liabilities were, on that date, by virtue of section 17(2) of the National Lottery Act 2006 (c. 23), vested in the Big Lottery Fund;

• “the operative day” means the day which the Commissioners shall determine in accordance with section 3 (operative day) of this Act;

• “project assets” means the assets defined as such in the Millennium Agreement being the assets utilised or incorporated in, or acquired, created or improved by any of the Whitehaven companies as part of the project enabled by grant monies provided by the Millennium Commission pursuant to the Millennium Agreement; and, without prejudice to the integrity of that definition, includes the project assets specified in the Schedule to this Act; and

• “the Whitehaven companies” means W3M Charitable Foundation, Whitehaven Development Company Limited and W3M (Trading) Limited.