{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/canal-carriers-act-1845/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/canal-carriers-act-1845/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/42",
  "legislation_title": "Canal Carriers Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/canal-carriers-act-1845",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Company to be subject to the bye laws of any other company upon whose canal they may act as carriers.",
  "text": "Provided always, that any such company, commissioners, trustees, or undertakers using or employing any steam power for propelling, by means of paddle wheels, boats, barges, vessels, or rafts, upon any canal, river, or navigation, (other than their respective canals, rivers, and navigations,) shall use and employ the same subject to such bye laws, rules, and regulations touching the construction, dimensions, power, rate of speed, and otherwise, of such boats, barges, vessels, or rafts so propelled by steam as aforesaid as the directors, commissioners, or undertakers of the canals, rivers, and navigations respectively on which such last-mentioned boats, barges, vessels, or rafts shall be used and employed shall see fit to make and publish in that behalf, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make and publish such bye laws, rules, and regulations, and from time to time to add to or amend the same, as need may require; but it is hereby expressly provided and enacted that any bye laws, rules, and regulations so to be made and published shall be made equally applicable to and binding on all companies and persons so using such last-mentioned boats, barges, or other vessels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/42/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:01.953235+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."
}