Section 2

“Authority” means the Bintulu Port Authority established under section 3;

“Authority pilot” means a pilot employed by the Authority under section 55;

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Authority appointed under paragraph 4(1)(a);

“charges” includes tolls, dues, rents and other rates leviable under this Act or any rules or by-laws made thereunder;

“docks” includes basins, locks, cuts, entrances, graving-docks, keel-blocks, inclined-planes, slipways, gridirons, quays, warehouses and other works and things appertaining to docks;

“General Manager” means the General Manager of the Port appointed under section 21;

“goods” includes livestock, minerals, wares, gases of every form and merchandise of every description;

“Government” and “Federal Government” mean the Government of

Malaysia;

“land” includes the bed of the sea below high-water mark;

“licensed operator” means a licensed operator licensed under Part

III of the Ports (Privatization) Act 1990 [Act 422];

“licensed warehouse” means a warehouse or other place licensed for the warehousing of dutiable goods under section 65 of the

Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];

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“master” includes every person, except a pilot, having for the time being the command or charge of any vessel;

“Minister” and “Minister of Finance” mean the Federal Ministers charged with responsibility respectively for ports and harbours, and for finance;

“owner”, when used in relation to goods, includes a consignor, consignee, shipper or an agent for the sale, custody, shipping or landing of those goods; and, when used in relation to a vessel, includes a part-owner, charterer, consignee or mortgagee in possession of the vessel;

“pier” includes a stage, stairs, a landing-place, landing-stage, jetty, floating barge or pontoon and a bridge, and other works connected therewith;

“pilotage district” means an area in the Port or the approaches to the

Port declared under section 53 to be a pilotage district;

“Port” means Bintulu Port within the limits of the area declared under section 3 of the Act;

“rates” includes tolls, dues, rents, and other charges leviable under this Act or any rules or by-laws made thereunder;

“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars;

“the Act” means the Declaration of an Area in the Bintulu District to be a Federal Port Act 1979 [Act 217];

“vehicle” includes a carriage travelling on its own wheels or runners and used or intended to be used for the conveyance or carriage of persons, animals or goods;

“vessel” includes a ship or boat and any other description of vessel used in navigation;

“wharf” includes any wall and building adjoining the foreshore, sea-bed or a river-bed;

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“wharf superintendent” means the officer employed by the

Authority to be in charge of the management of the wharves and docks of the Authority.