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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2003/schedule-13/paragraph-49",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1075",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-west-coast-main-line-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any specified work shall, when commenced, be constructed—\n(a) with all reasonable dispatch in accordance with the plans approved or deemed to have been approved or settled as aforesaid and with any requirements made under paragraph 46(3)(b);\n(b) under the supervision (if given) and, in the case of any specified work which directly and physically affects a waterway, to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineer;\n(c) in such manner as to cause as little detriment as is reasonably practicable; and\n(d) in such manner as to cause as little inconvenience as is reasonably practicable to BW, its officers and agents and all other persons lawfully using the waterways.\n(2) Nothing in this Order shall authorise Network Rail to make or maintain any permanent works in or over a waterway or as to impede or prevent (whether by reducing the width of the waterway or otherwise) the passage of any vessel which is of a kind (as to its dimensions) for which BW are required by section 105(1)(b) and (2) of the Transport Act 1968 to maintain the waterway.\n(3) Following the completion of the construction of the specified work Network Rail shall restore the waterway to a condition no less satisfactory than its condition immediately prior to the commencement of that work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 73."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl (12.1.2007)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3471",
      "affecting_title": "The Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) (Stowe Hill) Order 2006"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1075/schedule/13/paragraph/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:25:47.695647+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."
}