A navigation authority is a company or statutory body which is concerned with the management of a navigable canal or river.
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Whilst the rights of individual authorities vary, a navigation authority will typically have a right to:
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Again, responsibilities vary, but will usually include:
Ownership of the waterway edit
Whilst a navigation authority may own the land over which the waterway runs, and usually does in the case of artificial waterways, this is not invariably the case, and particularly in the case of river navigations, the land beneath the river may belong to riparian landowners.
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Major authorities edit
- Canal & River Trust - most canals and approximately half of all rivers
- Environment Agency
- Fens and Anglian system: Ancholme, Glen, Great Ouse, Nene, Stour, Welland
- Medway
- Wye and Lugg
- Non-tidal Thames
- Royal Military Canal
Minor authorities edit
- Basingstoke Canal Authority (Basingstoke Canal)
- Broads Authority
- Conservators of the River Cam
- Manchester Ship Canal Company
- Port of Tyne
- Middle Level Commissioners (Middle Level Navigations)
- National Trust (River Wey and Godalming Navigations)
- Port of London Authority (Tidal River Thames)
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References edit
- ^ British Transport Commission. "General Canal Byelaws 1965" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-12.