Conwy Tunnel (Supplementary Powers) Act 1983

22 Interpretation. U.K.

(1) In this Act—

• “apparatus” includes any device, structure or work;

• “Conwy harbour” means such part of the Estuary and any land adjacent to it as is for the time being within the limits of the jurisdiction of the harbour authority under any harbour order;

• “Conwy Mussel Fishery” means the fishery comprised in the M1 Conwy Mussel Fishery (Amendment) Order 1948;

• “Crown land” has the same meaning as in [F1 Part XIII of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990];

• “deposited plan” and “deposited section” mean respectively the plan and the section deposited in connection with the Bill for this Act with the Chief Executive of the Gwynedd County Council and in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons;

• “harbour” and “harbour authority” have the same meanings as in the M2 Harbours Act 1964, and “harbour order” means a harbour revision order made under section 14 of that Act;

• “land” includes land covered with water, any interest in land and any easement or other right in, to or over land;

• “mooring” means any buoy, pile, post, chain, pillar or other apparatus used for the mooring of vessels;

• “the harbour authority” means the harbour authority for the harbour formed by the Estuary;

• “the harbour master” means the person appointed by the harbour authority as harbour master for Conwy harbour and includes his authorised deputies and assistants and any person authorised by the harbour authority to act as harbour master;

• “tunnel units” means sections of concrete, steel or other material (or combination of materials) designed to be attached together so as to constitute the framework of the tunnel;

• “vessel” includes a hovercraft within the meaning of the M3 Hovercraft Act 1968.

(2) In this Act, the expressions listed in column 1 below have the meaning given by, or are to be construed in accordance with, the provisions of this Act listed against them in column 2 below.

Expression	Relevant provision
construction period	section 8(7)
Estuary	section 1(2)
harbour area	section 7(8)
principal construction works	section 1(2)
principal works	section 1(3)
Scheme	section 1(2)
the 1980 Act	section 1(1)
tunnel	section 1(2)
tunnel maintenance area	section 7(8)
tunnel maintenance works	section 6(3)
tunnel works	section 6(2)

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 58(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1948 No. 1888.

M2 1964 c. 40.

M3 1968 c. 59.