The Manchester Ship Canal Harbour Revision Order 2009

20.  To carry on the business of a holding company in all its branches and to acquire by purchase, lease, concession, grant, licence or otherwise and hold such businesses, options, rights, privileges, lands, buildings, leases, underleases, stocks, shares, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, obligations, securities, reversionary interests, annuities, policies of assurance and other property and rights and interests in property as the directors of the Company shall deem fit and generally to hold, manage, develop, lease, sell or dispose of the same and to vary any of the investments of the Company, to act as trustees of any deeds constituting or securing any debentures, debenture stock or other securities or obligations, to enter into, assist, or participate in financial, commercial, mercantile , industrial and other transactions, undertakings and businesses of every description and to establish, carry on, develop and extend the same or sell, dispose of or otherwise turn the same to account and to co-ordinate the policy and administration of any companies of which the Company is a member or which are in any manner controlled by, or connected with, the Company.