205Definitions

205 Definitions

205 Definitions

In this Part—

article includes any plant, motor or other vehicle, aircraft, vessel or other thing of any description.

authorised officer—

(a) means, except in sections 206 and 208, only an authorised officer appointed by the EPA, and

(b) extends, in sections 206 and 208, to a police officer, and

(c) extends, in sections 206 and 208, in relation to vessels only, to an officer or employee of the marine authority authorised by the authority for the purposes of those sections, and

(d) extends, in sections 206 and 208, in relation to vessels situated within marine parks and aquatic reserves, to an authorised officer appointed under the Marine Estate Management Act 2014 authorised by the relevant Ministers (within the meaning of that Act) for the purposes of those sections.

s 205: Am 1998 No 120, Sch 1.35 [2] [3]; 1999 No 80, Sch 3.6 [8]; 2004 No 91, Sch 2.65; 2005 No 96, Sch 1 [91]; 2014 No 72, Sch 4.13 [1].