- address
includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;
- apparatus
has the same meaning as in Part 3 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act;
- authorised street tramway
means any street tramway authorised by this Order;
- 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;
- building
includes any structure or erection, or any part of a building, structure or erection;
- canal work
means so much of any specified work as is in or over the Canal and “non-canal work” means so much of any specified work as is not in or over the Canal.
- carriageway
has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
- cycle track
has the same meaning as in section 329(1) (further provisions as to interpretation) of the 1980 Act;
- 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— (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;
- electric line
has the meaning given by section 64(1) (interpretation etc. of Part 1) of the Electricity Act 1989;
- electronic transmission
means a communication transmitted— (a) by means of an electronic communications network;
- footway
has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
- functions
includes powers and duties;
- 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;
- highway
means a street vested in or maintainable by the highway authority;
- highway operations
means the construction or non-routine maintenance of any part of the authorised works which will involve interference with a highway or the traffic in a highway, any temporary stopping up, alteration or diversion of a highway, any occupation of the surface of a highway or any placing of equipment or apparatus in a highway;
- level crossing
means the place at which the authorised transit system crosses a highway or other road on the level under the powers conferred by this article;
- maintain
includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace, and “maintenance” is to be construed accordingly;
- Match Day Controlled Hours
means 2 hours before the expected start time, during and one hour after the actual finish time of a football match or event on those days upon which there is held — (a) at Old Trafford Football Ground, any football match involving Manchester United Football Club;
- necessary alternative apparatus
means alternative apparatus adequate to enable a public utility to fulfil its statutory or licensed functions in a manner no less efficient than previously;
- non-canal work
means so much of any specified work as is not in or over the Canal.
- parking place
has the same meaning as in section 32 (power of local authorities to provide parking places) of the 1984 Act;
- plan
includes all designs, drawings, specifications, method statements, soil reports, programmes, calculations, risk assessments and other documents that are reasonably necessary properly and sufficiently to describe the works to be executed;
- plans
includes sections, drawings, specifications and particulars (including descriptions of methods of construction).
- protective equipment
includes lights, traffic signs (within the meaning of section 64(1) of the 1984 Act), manual, mechanical, automatic, electrical or telephonic equipment or other devices.
- 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);
- public sewer or drain
means a sewer or drain which belongs to a sewerage undertaker, the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, a local authority or a harbour authority within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1964;
- public utility
means, as the case may be— (a) Electricity North West Limited, company number 02366949, whose registered office is at 304 Bridgewater Place, Birchwood Park, Warrington, WA3 6XG;
- relevant land
means the land acquired from the person concerned or any other land with which that person is, or was at the time when the building was erected, the works executed or the improvement or alteration made, directly or indirectly concerned.
- 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;
- street
includes part of a street;
- street tramway
means any part of a transit system which is laid along a street whether or not the section of the street in which its rails are laid may be used by other traffic;
- the 1961 Act
means the Land Compensation Act 1961;
- the 1965 Act
means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;
- the 1980 Act
means the Highways Act 1980;
- the 1984 Act
means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;
- the 1990 Act
means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
- the 1991 Act
means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
- the authorised transit system
means the transit system authorised by this Order;
- the authorised works
means the scheduled works and any other works authorised by this Order, or any part of them;
- the authority
means— (a) in relation to the Bridgewater Canal, BCC in its capacity as navigation authority for that canal;
- the book of reference
means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;
- the Borough Council
means Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council;
- 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;
- the Canal
means the Bridgewater Canal or the Manchester Ship Canal, as the case may be;
- the engineer
means an engineer (whether an employee of the authority or external consultant) appointed by the authority for the purpose in question;
- the limits of deviation
means the limits of lateral deviation for the scheduled works mentioned in article 8(1)(a) and (2) (power to deviate);
- the limits of land to be acquired or used
means the limits of land to be acquired or used shown on the works and land plans;
- 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;
- the Order limits
means the permanent limits and the temporary limits;
- the permanent limits
means the limits of deviation and of land to be acquired or used, as shown on the works and land plans, and described in the book of reference;
- the scheduled works
means the works specified in Schedule 1 (scheduled works), or any part of them;
- the sections
means the sections included in the works and land plans;
- the Ship Canal enactments
means— • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1885 c. clxxxviii • Manchester Ship Canal (Additional Lands) Act 1888 c. cxi • Manchester Ship Canal (Alteration of Works) Act 1888 c. clxi • Manchester Ship Canal (Tidal Openings, & c.) Act 1890 c. lxxiv • Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) Act 1890 c. ccxxvii • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1891 c. clxxxi • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1893 c. iii • Manchester Corporation (Ship Canal) Act 1893 c. xix • Manchester Ship Canal (Additional Capital, & c.) Act 1893 c. xxiii • Manchester Ship Canal (Surplus Lands) Act 1893 c. lxxiii • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1894 c. clxix • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1896 c. clxxxii • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1897 c. cviii • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1900 c. xxxvi • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1904 c. ccxii • Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907 c. xv • Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) Act 1907 c. xxx • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1911 c. lvi • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1919 c. xlvi • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1920 c. cxlix • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1924 c. lviii • Manchester Ship Canal Act 1925 c. cxx • Manchester Ship Canal (General Powers) Act 1926 c. lxxxiii • Manchester
- the temporary limits
means the limits of land to be used temporarily as shown on the works and land plans, described in the book of reference and specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 6 (land of which temporary possession may be taken);
- the traffic regulation plans
means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the traffic regulation plans for the purposes of this Order;
- the tribunal
means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
- the undertaker
means Transport for Greater Manchester established by the South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Area (Designation) Order 1969;
- the works and land plans
means the plans and sections certified by the Secretary of State as the works and land plans for the purposes of this Order.
- tramcar
means any vehicle (whether or not used for the carriage of passengers) carried on flanged wheels along the rails of a transit system;
- tramroad
means any part of a transit system which is not a street tramway;
- transit system
means a system of transport used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers and employing parallel rails which— (a) provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels;
- TRO
means a Traffic Regulation Order made under the 1984 Act.
- watercourse
includes all docks, rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows (whether or not the flow is intermittent) except a public sewer or drain;
- 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.