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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-thames-hungerford-footbridges-order-1999/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2981",
  "legislation_title": "The River Thames (Hungerford Footbridges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-thames-hungerford-footbridges-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“construction” shall include execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal; and “construct” and “constructed” shall be construed accordingly;\n“damage” shall include scouring, erosion and environmental damage and “damaged” shall be construed accordingly;\n“drainage work” means any watercourse and includes any land used for providing flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure or appliance constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;\n“the fishery” means fish in, or migrating to or from, the River Thames and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;\n“plans” shall include sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;\n“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 16 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to\n(a) affect any drainage work or the volumetric flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work,\n(b) affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any watercourse or other surface waters or ground water,\n(c) cause obstruction to the free passage of fish or damage to any fishery, or\n(d) affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources; and\n“watercourse” has the meaning given in section 72 of the Land Drainage Act 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2981/schedule/9/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:12.577860+00:00"
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  "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."
}