{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manchester-ship-canal-revision-order-1987/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1790",
  "legislation_title": "The Manchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manchester-ship-canal-revision-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order —\n“the Company” means the Manchester Ship Canal Company;\n“the directors” means the directors of the Company;\n“the dock” means so much of the dock of the Company in the city of Salford known as Dock No. 9 as lies to the east of an imaginary straight line drawn in a south-easterly direction across the dock from National Grid reference point SJ 380428 397295;\n“the harbour” means the harbour and port of Manchester.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1790/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:23.555571+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."
}