FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 41 Repeals and savings.

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FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 41

Repeals and savings.

41.(1) In this Act

Definition rep. by 1973 NI9 art.12 sch.2 Pt.II

"Authority" means the [Fire Authority for Northern Ireland];

Definition rep. by 1973 NI9 art.12 sch.2 Pt.II

"enactment" includes any enactment in any Act of the Irish Parliament, the
Parliament of the United Kingdom or the Parliament of Northern Ireland,
whether public or general, or local or private and a provision in a statutory
order;

"equipment" includes uniform and any article of apparel properly used by a
member of a fire brigade in the performance of his duties as such;

["fire authority" means the Fire Authority for Northern Ireland;]

"fire brigade" means an organised body of officers and firemen trained and
equipped for the purposes of extinguishing fires occurring in buildings and
elsewhere and of rescuing persons and property from such fires, and includes
the fire engines, appliances and equipment with which such body is provided
for those purposes;

["local authority" means a district council;]

"the Minister" and "the Ministry" mean respectively the Minister and
the Ministry of Home Affairs;

"owner" in relation to a building means any person who is for the time being
receiving a rack rent of the building whether on his own account or as agent
or trustee for any other person or who, if the building were let for
occupation at a rack rent, would so receive that rack rent;

"performance" in relation to any function includes exercise;

"rack rent" in relation to a building means a rent which is not less than
two-thirds of the full net annual value of the building as ascertained in
accordance with the Valuation Acts;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry under
this Act;

Definition rep. by 1973 NI9 art.12 sch.2 Pt.II

"street" includes any highway and any public passage whether a thoroughfare or
not;

"transferred officer" means any chief officer, fire officer or other officer
or fireman who on the 1st April 1950 was by virtue of the enactments repealed
by this Act transferred to the Authority or the Council;

Definition rep. by 1973 NI2 art.60(2) sch.4

(2) References to the extinction of fires include references to the prevention
of spreading of fires.

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FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 41