Section 40: Interpretation.

(1) In this Act-
"aeronautical services" includes information, direction and other facilities furnished, issued or provided in connection with meteorological forecasts or data;
"airport" has the meaning assigned to it by section 17 of the Civil Aviation Act;
"Board" means the Governing Board of the Agency established under section 2 (1) of this Act;
"marine meteorology" means meteorology as applied to ocean activities;
"member" means a member of the Board and includes the Chairman;
"meteorology" means the study dealing with the phenomena of the atmosphere;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with the responsibility of matters relating to aviation and "Ministry" shall be construed accordingly;
"power" includes functions and duties ;
"premises" includes lands, plants and ancillary works;
"President" means the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ;
"weather" means the state of the atmosphere which consists of the short-term minutes to months variation of the atmosphere;
"Agency" means the Nigerian Meteorological Agency;
"Agro-meteorology" means the application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring and management of agricultural activities;
"Government" means Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ;
"Hydro-meteorology" means the application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring and management of water resources;
"Marine-meteorology" means the application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring and management of coastal, ocean transportation, fisheries and all other marine activities ecosystem;
"Policy and guidelines" means policy and guidelines made for the administration of the functions of the Agency;
"Regulations" means rules that may be established by the Agency from time to time for the administration and regulation of Meteorological services in Nigeria;
"Seismological activities" means application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring of earthquakes and tremor and other earth related activities.
(2) Every other term shall have the same meaning as contained in the Basic Documents of the World Meteorological Organisation.