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;
"Agency" means the Nigerian Meteorological Agency;
"Agro-meteorology" means the application of meteorological information and data in the monitoring and management of agricultural activities;
"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;
"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 meteorology as applied by ocean activities;
"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;
"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;
"Policy and guidelines" means policy and guidelines made for the administration of the functions of the Agency;
"power" includes functions and duties;
"premises" includes lands, plants and ancillary works;
"President" means the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
"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;
"weather" means the state of the atmosphere which consists of the short-term minutes to months variation of the atmosphere.
(2) Every other term shall have the same meaning as contained in the Basic Documents of the World Meteorological Organisation.