s.2Interpretation
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Section 2Part 1 — Preliminary

Interpretation

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In this Act — "Authority" means the National Roads Authority established under section 3; "Board" means the board of directors of the Authority established under section 7; "chairperson" means the chairperson of the Board; "core government", "equity investment", "executive assets" and "executive revenue" have the respective meanings assigned to those expressions by section 2 of the Public Management and Finance Act (2020 Revision); "deputy chairperson" means the deputy chairperson of the Board; "Deputy Managing Director" means the person appointed as such under section 11(2); "director" means a member of the Board appointed under section 7(4); "driver's licence" has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Traffic Act, (2023 Revision); "Executive Secretary" means the executive secretary of the Authority appointed under section 7(6); "financial year" means a year ending on the 30th June; "funds" includes monies, stocks, shares and other securities; "Managing Director" means the person appointed as such under section 11(1); "Minister" means the Member of Cabinet for the time being charged with responsibility for Infrastructure in accordance with section 54 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009[UKSI 1379 of 2009]; "property" includes — (a) money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal; and (b) obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as defined in paragraph (a); "Public Management and Finance Act" means the Public Management and Finance Act (2020 Revision); "public officer" has the meaning assigned to that expression in the Constitution; "public road" means a road which — (a) is maintained at public expense; or (b) is dedicated in that capacity to the use of the public as of right, and which, in either event, is declared by the Cabinet to be a public road under the Roads Act (2005 Revision); and, for the purposes of section 21, "public road" includes the land on which the road is built; "road" includes the carriageway, waterways, bridges, culverts and fordings on the edge of the road, and the land on each side of the carriageway and waterways up to the boundary of the road; but does not include a mosquito control trail other than to the extent to which any such trail is declared to be a public road under the Roads Act (2005 Revision); "Road Fund" means the road fund established under section 18; "road user charge" means a charge imposed in relation to the use of a public road; and "Roads Development Fund" means the fund established for the purpose of developing roads, under a motion of the Cayman Islands Parliament passed on the 11th March, 1998.

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