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INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 10

Interpretation.

10.(1) In this Act

"basic service" means the provision of

(a)means of communication by road, rail, water or air (including the provision
of roads, railways, sidings, docks, airfields, air terminals or other works);
or

(b)power, lighting or heating; or

(c)any other service on which undertakings depend, including housing, water
supplies, drainage, effluent disposal and sewerage systems and facilities for
meeting the requirements of persons employed in undertakings;

"Government department" means a Ministry of Northern Ireland;

"housing authority" includes both a local authority and the Northern Ireland
Housing Trust but does not include a housing association within the meaning of
section 12(2) of the Housing and Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions)
Act (Northern Ireland) 1946;

"local authority" means the council of any county, county or other borough or
urban district or of a rural district, or the commissioners of a town, or a
new town commission within the meaning of the New Towns Act (Northern Ireland)
1965;

"the Ministry" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1);

"public utility undertaking" includes any company or authority which carries
on a gas, water, hydraulic power, electricity or public transport or harbour
undertaking, or any undertaking for providing or improving drainage;

"undertaking" means any trade or business, or any other activity providing
employment.

(2) In this Act, references to the guaranteeing of a loan shall be construed
as references to guaranteeing (whether wholly or in part and whether solely or
jointly with other guarantors) the payment either of the interest or of the
principal, or of both, of the loan.

S.11 rep. by 1980 NI 12 art.39(1)


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