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2.—(1) In this Order—
“the 1987 Act” means the Channel Tunnel Act 1987;
“the Agreement” means the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning Border Controls on Rail Traffic between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom using the Channel Fixed Link(1);
“the authorised purposes” means—
purposes for which provision is authorised by any of paragraphs (a), (d) and (g); and
purposes connected with any matter in relation to, with respect to or for regulating which provision is authorised by any of paragraphs (c), (e), (f) and (h),
of section 11(1) of the 1987 Act;
“frontier control enactment” means an Act, or an instrument made under an Act, for the time being in force, which contains provision relating to frontier controls;
“the international articles” means the provisions set out in the Schedule being—
the Articles or parts of Articles of the Agreement; and
the Articles to the Protocol to the Agreement;
“international service” has the meaning given in section 13(6) of the 1987 Act;
“terminal control point” means a place which is an authorised terminal control point for international services for the purposes of sections 11 and 12 of the 1987 Act;
(2) In the international articles, “the Fixed Link” shall for the purposes of this Order be taken to have the same meaning as is given to “the tunnel system” by section 1(7) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.
(3) Terms defined for the purposes of the international articles have the same meaning for the purposes of this Order.
Cmd. 254.
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