Grand Junction Canal - Acts of Parliament

Acts of Parliament

• 33 Geo. III. C. 80, received Royal Assent on 30 April 1793

An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Oxford Canal Navigation at Braunston, in the county of Northampton, to join the River Thames at or near Brentford, in the county of Middlesex; and also certain collateral Cuts from the said intended Canal.

• 34 Geo. III. C. 24, received Royal Assent on 28 March 1794

An Act for making certain navigable Cuts from the towns of Buckingham, Aylesbury, and Wendover, in the county of Buckingham, to communicate with the Grand Junction Navigation authorized to be made by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, and for amending the said Act.

• 35 Geo. III. C. 8, received Royal Assent on 5 March 1795

An Act for authorizing the Company of the Grand Junction Canal to vary the Course of a certain Part of the said Canal, in the county of Hertford, so as to render the Navigation thereof more safe and convenient, and for making some other Amendments and Alterations in an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal.

• 35 Geo. III. C. 43, received Royal Assent on 28 April 1795

An Act for making a navigable Cut from the Grand Junction Canal, in the precinct of Norwood, in the county of Middlesex, to Paddington, in the said county

• 35 Geo. III. C. 85, received Royal Assent on 2 June 1795

An Act for making and extending a navigable Cut from the town of Watford, in the county of Hertford, to the town of St. Alban, in the same county,

• 36 Geo. III. C. 25, received Royal Assent on 24 December 1795

An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal to finish and complete the same, and the several Cuts and other Works authorized to be made and done by them, by virtue of several Acts of Parliament

• 38 Geo. III. C. 33, received Royal Assent on 26 May 1798

An Act for confirming and carrying into Execution certain Articles of Agreement made and entered into between Beilby, Lord Bishop of London, Thomas Wood, Esq. Sir John Frederick, Bart. and Arthur Stanhope, Esq. Sir John Morshead, Bart. and Dame Elizabeth his wife, and Robert Thistlethwaite, Esq. and Selina his wife, and the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal; and for other Purposes therein-mentioned

• 41 Geo. III. C. 71, received Royal Assent on 20 June 1801

An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal more effectually to provide for the Discharge of their Debts, and to complete the whole of the Works to be executed by them, in pursuance of the several Acts of the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-eighth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty; and for altering and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts

• 43 Geo. III. C. 8, received Royal Assent on 24 March 1803

An Act for empowering the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal, to raise a further Sum of Money to enable them to complete the Works authorized to be executed, in pursuance of the several Acts passed in the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-eighth, and Forty-first Years of the Reign of his present Majesty; and for amending, altering, and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts

• 45 Geo. III. C. 68, received Royal Assent on 27 June 1805

An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the Powers of certain Acts for making and maintaining the Grand Junction Canal

• 52 Geo. III. C. 140, received Royal Assent on 9 June 1812

An Act to explain, amend, and enlarge the Powers of certain Acts passed for making and maintaining the Grand Junction Canal

• 58 Geo. III. C. 16, received Royal Assent on 17 March 1818

An Act to enable the Grand Junction Canal Company to vary the Line of Part of their Canal in the county of Hertford, and for altering and enlarging the Powers of several Acts relating to the said Canal.

• 59 Geo. III. C. 111, received Royal Assent on 22 June 1819

An Act to vary and alter certain Acts of his present Majesty, relating to the Grand Junction Canal, the Grand Junction Water Works, and the Regent's Canal, in order to effect an Exchange of Water, for the better Supply of the Regent's Canal Navigation and Grand Junction Water Works.

This list is incomplete. Among those missing are the act authorising construction of the Slough Arm, and acts in 1928 authorising the formation of the Grand Union Canal.