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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-for-greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-trafford-park-extension-order-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Park Extension) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-for-greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-trafford-park-extension-order-2016",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the protection of MSCC and BCC the following provisions of this Schedule, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the authority concerned, have effect.\n(2) In this Schedule—\n“the authority” means—\n(a) in relation to the Bridgewater Canal, BCC in its capacity as navigation authority for that canal; and\n(b) in relation to the Manchester Ship Canal, MSCC in its capacity as harbour authority for that canal;\n“BCC” means the Bridgewater Canal Company Limited, company number 06805592 whose registered address is at Peel Dome, The Trafford Centre, Stretford, M17 8PL and (where applicable) includes its statutory successors;\n“the Bridgewater Canal” means the Bridgewater Canal owned or managed by BCC, and includes any works connected with the Bridgewater Canal for the maintenance or operation of which BCC is responsible and includes (without limitation) lands, walls, culverts, roads, bridges, buildings and developments held or used by BCC for the purposes of the Bridgewater Canal;\n“the Canal” means the Bridgewater Canal or the Manchester Ship Canal, as the case may be;\n“construction”, in relation to any specified work or protective work, includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal, and “construct” and “constructed” have corresponding meanings;\n“detriment” means any physical damage to the Canal wholly or partly caused by the specified works which affects the stability, structure and safety of the Canal and, without limitation on the scope of that meaning, includes—\n(a) the erosion of the bed, banks or walls of the Canal, or the impairment of the stability of any works or lands forming part of the Canal;\n(b) damage to the walls or banks of the Canal caused by excessive weight being placed on the Canal walls;\n(c) the silting of the Canal or the deposit of materials in the Canal so as to damage the Canal;\n(d) the pollution of the Canal; and\n(e) any alteration in the water level of the Canal, or interference with the supply of water to the Canal, or drainage from the Canal;\nbut does not include any damage to the Canal to the extent that it is set out in plans approved (or deemed to be approved) under paragraph 4;\n“the engineer” means an engineer (whether an employee of the authority or external consultant) appointed by the authority for the purpose in question;\n“harbour master” means the officer appointed by MSCC from time to time to execute the office of harbour master and includes any assistants and subordinates in so far as such assistants and subordinates are duly authorised to act on behalf the harbour master;\n“the Manchester Ship Canal” means the Manchester Ship Canal owned or managed by MSCC, and includes any works connected with the Manchester Ship Canal for the maintenance or operation of which MSCC is responsible and includes (without limitation) lands, walls, banks, culverts, roads, bridges, buildings and developments held or used by MSCC for the purposes of the Manchester Ship Canal;\n“‘MSCC” means the Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited, company number 07438096, whose registered office is at Maritime Centre, Port of Liverpool, Liverpool L21 1LA and (where applicable) includes its statutory successors;\n“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications, calculations, surveys, soil and other environmental reports, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), drainage and flooding reports, risk assessments and method statements, but does not include the design and appearance of the specified works, calculations, phasing plans and programmes;\n“protective work” means a work which is reasonably necessary to be carried out to minimise or prevent detriment constructed under sub-paragraph 4(3)(a);\n“the Ship Canal enactments” means—\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1885 c. clxxxviii\nManchester Ship Canal (Additional Lands) Act 1888 c. cxi\nManchester Ship Canal (Alteration of Works) Act 1888 c. clxi\nManchester Ship Canal (Tidal Openings, & c.) Act 1890 c. lxxiv\nManchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) Act 1890 c. ccxxvii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1891 c. clxxxi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1893 c. iii\nManchester Corporation (Ship Canal) Act 1893 c. xix\nManchester Ship Canal (Additional Capital, & c.) Act 1893 c. xxiii\nManchester Ship Canal (Surplus Lands) Act 1893 c. lxxiii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1894 c. clxix\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1896 c. clxxxii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1897 c. cviii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1900 c. xxxvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1904 c. ccxii\nManchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907 c. xv\nManchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) Act 1907 c. xxx\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1911 c. lvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1919 c. xlvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1920 c. cxlix\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1924 c. lviii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1925 c. cxx\nManchester Ship Canal (General Powers) Act 1926 c. lxxxiii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1933 c. lxvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1936 c. cxxiv\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1949 c. xxxvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1950 c. lvi\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1952 c. xiii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1956 c. lxxx\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1960 c. xlv\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1962 c. liii\nManchester Ship Canal Act 1966 c. xxvii\nManchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1970 (S.I. 1971/191)\nManchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/2205)\nThe Manchester Ship Canal (Black Bear Canal) (Local Enactments) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1084)\nManchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/50)\nManchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1790)\nManchester Ship Canal Harbour Revision Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1268)\nThe Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907 (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1484)\nThe Manchester Ship Canal Harbour Revision Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2579);\n“specified work” means so much of the authorised works as is situated upon, across, under, over or within 15 metres of, or may in any way affect, the Canal; and\n“weight limit” means the relevant weight limit for any section of the wall or bank of the Canal that may be affected by any specified work or protective work, such weight limit to be approved by the engineer in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4.",
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