{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgewater-canal-transfer-of-undertaking-order-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1266",
  "legislation_title": "The Bridgewater Canal (Transfer of Undertaking) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgewater-canal-transfer-of-undertaking-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Bridgewater Canal” means the Bridgewater Canal as regulated by the Manchester Ship Canal Acts and Orders 1885 to 2009;\n“the Company” means The Bridgewater Canal Company Limited;\n“MSCC” means The Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited;\n“the transfer date” means the day after the day on which expires a period of 4 weeks beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force; and\n“vessel” means every description of vessel with or without means of propulsion of any kind and includes anything constructed or used to carry persons, goods, plant or machinery, or to be propelled or moved, on or by water, a personal watercraft, a seaplane on or in the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle, and any other thing constructed or adapted for floating on or being submersed in water (whether permanently or temporarily).\n(2) In this Order, a reference to the undertaking is a reference to—\n(a) all statutory and other powers and duties of MSCC conferred or imposed on MSCC by or under any provision of the Manchester Ship Canal Acts and Orders 1885 to 2009, and\n(b) the property, rights, liabilities and obligations, including all lands, works, buildings, machinery, stores and other real and personal property, assets and effects, contractual rights and obligations, and other rights and privileges vested in or enjoyed by MSCC,\nin respect of the Bridgewater Canal, and in relation to the transfer of the undertaking, means those statutory and other powers and duties, property, rights, liabilities and obligations of MSCC as they exist immediately before the transfer date in respect of the Bridgewater Canal.\n(3) References in this Order to the use of the Bridgewater Canal are construed as meaning such use as is, according to the principles of common law, reasonably incidental to navigation.\n(4) References in this Order to any property of a statutory undertaker are references to land, works, apparatus and other property which is or are vested in or under the control of that undertaker for the purposes of its functions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1266/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:31:47.761538+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}