{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-docks-and-harbour-company-liverpool-landing-stage-extension-harbour-revision-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-docks-and-harbour-company-liverpool-landing-stage-extension-harbour-revision-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1280",
  "legislation_title": "The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (Liverpool Landing Stage Extension) Harbour Revision Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mersey-docks-and-harbour-company-liverpool-landing-stage-extension-harbour-revision-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Company” means The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company;\n“deposited plan and sections” means the plan and sections (numbered sheets 1, 2 and 3) prepared in triplicate, signed by the Head of the Ports Division in the Department for Transport and marked “The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (Liverpool Landing Stage Extension) Harbour Revision Order 2004”, of which two copies have been deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport and one copy has been deposited at the head office of the Company;\n“existing enactments” means The Mersey Docks and Harbour Acts and Orders 1857 to 2002;\n“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plan;\n“the port” means the port of Liverpool as defined in the 1971 Act (including all land within the ring ownership boundary as defined in section 11 of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Act 1971);\n“relevant work” means so much of any work authorised by this Order as is on, under or over the waters of the port;\n“the 1971 Act” means the Mersey Docks and Harbour Act 1971;\n“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;\n“works” means the works authorised by this Order or, as the case may require, any part thereof.\n(2) This Order shall be read as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each distance mentioned in article 3.\n(3) Map reference points specified in this Order are Ordnance Survey National Grid reference points.\n(4) References in the existing enactments to the undertaking of the Company shall be construed as including references to any works carried on by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under or by virtue of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.x."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 1vii."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1280/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:09.417264+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."
}