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“appointed day” means the day appointed for the coming into force of this Act;

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Commission appointed under paragraph 5(1)(a);

“Commission” means the Penang Port Commission established and incorporated under this Act;

“Commission pilot” means a pilot employed by the Commission pursuant to section 70C;

“Consultative Committee” means the Port Consultative Committee established under section 13A;

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

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“General Manager” means the General Manager of the undertaking of the Commission appointed under section 17;

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

“Groups A and B officers” include the category of officers as recommended in the Report of the Royal Commission on the

Remunerations and Conditions of Service in Local Authorities and

Statutory Authorities;

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

“licensed operator” means a licensed operator licensed under

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

“licensed warehouse” has the meaning assigned by subsection 2(1) of the Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];

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

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

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

“Pilotage Committee” means the Pilotage Committee appointed under section 70D;

“pilotage district” means any area in the port or the approaches to the port declared under section 70A to be a pilotage district;

“port” means the Port of Penang within the limits declared under section 6 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952

[Ord. 70 of 1952];

“Ports Ordinance” means the Ports Ordinance (Cap. 149) of the

Straits Settlements;

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“Prai Wharf undertaking” means that part of the undertaking of the Malayan Railway Administration carried on immediately before the appointed day by the Ports Department of the said Administration at Prai Wharf and more particularly within the area shown edged in grey on Miscellaneous Plan No. 85 deposited in the office of the Director of Survey, Penang;

“rates” includes any toll, due, rent, rate or charge leviable under this Act;

“State” means the State of Penang;

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

“vehicle” includes any 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 any ship or boat or by other description of vessel used in navigation;

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

“wharf superintendent” means the officer in charge of the management of the wharves and docks of the Commission.