Shannon Act, 1885

Definitions.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

17. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the context repugnant thereto; that is to say,

Local Government Board” means the Local Government Board for Ireland:

Harbour authority” includes all persons or bodies of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of or intrusted with the duty, or invested with the power of constructing, improving, managing, maintaining, or lighting any harbour, or any works in or at which vessels can obtain shelter, or ship and unship goods or passengers in the River Shannon or Fergus:

Local authority” means the grand jury of a county or any urban or rural sanitary authority within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878:

County” means a county at large, also a county of a city, a county of a town and city, and a city or town and county:

Grand jury” includes the town council of any borough to whom the powers of a grand jury with respect to the presentment of public money have been transferred:

Lands Clauses Acts” means the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same, so far as respects Ireland.