Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

14 & 15 Vict.

and the subsisting Provisions of the Acts therein recited, or of Commisthe Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public sioners unders Buildings, of any of the Powers, Duties, Authorities, or c. 95. Property vested in them respectively under the said Acts; and nothing in this Act shall extend to authorize or empower any Vestry or District Board to exercise any Power or Control whatsoever in respect of paving, maintaining, lighting, watering, cleansing, and regulating any Streets or Places in the Neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament, delineated on a Plan marked E., referred to by "The Crown Estate Paving Act, 1851," or any Portion of the District now under the Management of the Commissioners for carrying into execution the said Crown Estate Paving Act, and the subsisting Provisions aforesaid, or to exercise any Power or Control whatsoever in or over any of the Gardens or Pleasure Grounds the Management whereof is now or may for the Time being be vested in such last-mentioned Commissioners; nor shall any such Street: or Place, or any Portion of such District, as aforesaid, be assessed or rated under this Act for defraying any Expenses incurred by any Vestry or District Board in relation to paving, lighting, watering, or cleansing, but such Streets, Places, and District shall be subject to all the Provisions of this: Act relating to Sewerage and House Drainage, and to be assessed or rated for Sewerage Expenses incurred by any such Vestry ór Board, and for Expenses incurred by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and towards any Sums required to be raised by such Board under this Act as by this Act provided.

Commissioners

CCXLI. Nothing in this Act shall divest the Commissioners Saving of the for the Time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Rights of the Buildings of any Power or Property now or which for the of Works. Time being may be vested in them; and nothing in this Act shall extend to authorize or empower any Vestry or District Board to exercise any Power or Control whatsoever in or over any of the Royal or Public Parks, Gardens, or Pleasure Grounds, the Management whereof is now or may be for the Time being vested in such Commissioners; and nothing in this Act shall abridge, alter, or affect any Right, Power, Exemption, or Remedy of the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or the said Commissioners, in, over, or in relation to the Possessions of the Crown or of the Public. 、 *

certain Powers

CCXLII. Nothing in this Act shall divest the Commissioners Saving of of Sewers of the City of London of any Powers or Property of City Comvested in them in relation to such Parts of any of the Parishes missioners of mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act as are within the City Sewers. of London, nor shall such Parts be subject to be rated or assessed by any District Board, but shall be subject to all the Powers of the Metropolitan Board of Works as other Places in the City of London.

[ocr errors]

.. CCXLIII. Nothing in this Act shall extend to or affect Saving Rights any of the Rights, Privileges, Powers, or Authorities vested in of Metropolitan the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company by an Act of the Company,

Session

Sewage Manure

[ocr errors][ocr errors]

acting under 9 & 10 Vict. c. cccxcviii. and

10 & 11 Vict. c. cxxxviii.

Saving
Rights of
Commissioners
or Trustees of
Turnpike
Roads,

Saving for

Police Commis

sioners.

Battersea and

Session holden in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to incorporate a Company by the Name of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, or an Act of the Session then next following, intituled An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company to alter the Line of their Works, and for other Purposes: Provided always, that all Rights, Powers, and Authorities by either of the said Acts vested in the Commissioners of Sewers for the Time being for the City and Liberty of Westminster and Part of the County of Middlesex shall be vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the Provisions of the said Acts shall be construed as applying to such Board in lieu of such Commissioners, but any Order or Act which might have been made or done by the said Commissioners at a Court of Sewers may be made or done by the said Metropolitan Board at any Meeting of such Board.

CCXLIV. Nothing in this Act shall divest the Commissioners or Trustees of any Turnpike Road of any Powers or Property vested in them as such Commissioners or Trustees, save as herein expressly provided with respect to Turnpike Roads, and save that the Footpaths of any such Road shall be under the Care and Management of the Vestries and District Boards of the Parishes or Districts in which the same are situate in like Manner as other Footpaths in such Parishes and Districts: Provided always, that the Provisions of this Act transferring to Vestries and District Boards Powers and Property vested in any Commissioner or other Body in relation to the paving, lighting, watering, cleansing, and improving of their Parishes and Districts, and all other Provisions of this Act incident to or consequent upon such Transfer, shall apply to all Powers and Property vested in the Trustees of the Commercial Road, so far as regards any Streets or Highways other than such Road, and also so far as regards the Footpaths of such Road.

CCXLV. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the Powers given by Law to the Commissioners of the Police of the Metropolis.

CCXLVI. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to Penge Dispute prejudice or affect any Question as to whether the Hamlet of Penge is or is not a Part of the Parish of Battersea.

not affected.

Repeal of Acts inconsistent

with this Act.

In case of Conflict with the Provisions of this Act, Provisions of

CCXLVII. All Acts of Parliament in force in any Parish or Place to which this Act extends, or in any Part of such Parish or Place, shall, so far as the same are inconsistent with the Provisions of this Act, be repealed as regards such Parish or Place, or such Part thereof, notwithstanding any Provisions of this Act.continuing and transferring respectively to Vestries of Parishes and transferring to District Boards any Duties, Powers, or Authorities now vested in Vestries, Commissioners, or other Bodies.

CCXLVIII. Upon the Petition of the Metropolitan Board of Works, or of any District Board or Vestry, representing to Her Majesty in Council that by reason of the Provisions of any Local Act of Parliament relating to any District or Parish,

or

[ocr errors]

by Order in

Vestries.

or any Part thereof respectively, Difficulties have arisen in the Local Acts Execution of this Act and of such Local Act or either of them; may be varied and praying for a Suspension or Alteration of all or any of the Council, on Provisions of such Local Act, or for the Establishment. of Petition of other Provisions in lieu thereof under this Enactment, it shall Boards or be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to suspend or alter all or any of the Provisions of such Local Act, and to make other Provisions in relation to the Matters thereof as Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, may think necessary under the Circumstances of the Case; and every such Order in Council shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Month after the making thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if Parliament be not sitting, then within One Month after the next Meeting of Parliament, and shall be published in the London Gazette: Provided always, that no such Order in Council shall remain in force beyond the Term of One Year from the making thereof.

Power to extend Act to adjoining Parishes.

Act may be extended by Order in

Council to

adjoining the

CCXLIX. In case and when and so often as it is made to appear to Her Majesty in Council, upon the Representation of the Metropolitan Board of Works, that the Provisions of this Act should be extended to any Parish adjoining the Metropolis, Parishes and in which there are not less than Seven hundred and fifty Metropolis not Inhabitants rated to the Relief of the Poor, it shall be lawful having less for Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, to than 750 Rateorder that the Provisions of this Act shall extend to such payers. Parish, from and after a Day to be mentioned in this Behalf in the Order in Council, and that such Parish shall join with any Parish or Parishes or District in such Order named in the Election from Time to Time of the Member or Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works by this Act directed to be elected for such Parish or Parishes or District, and to make such Provision as to the Mode in which every such joint Election shall take place, and otherwise in relation thereto, as to Her Majesty in Council may seem necessary and proper; and every such Order shall be published in the London Gazette; and from and after the Time mentioned in such Order for the Extension of the Provisions of this Act to any Parish as aforesaid, the Provisions of this Act shall extend to and be in force therein, in like Manner, so far as Circumstances will admit, as such Provisions apply to any Parish mentioned in Schedule (A.) of this Act, subject, nevertheless, to the Provisions in such Order contained in relation to the Election by such Parish jointly as aforesaid of a Member or Members of the said Metropolitan Board: Provided always, that Notice of every such Representation, and of the Time when it shall please Her Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by Her Privy Council, shall be published in the London Gazette One Month at least before such Representation is so considered.

Interpre

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors]

Interpretation and Commencement of Act.

CCL. In the Construction of this Act "the Metropolis shall be deemed to include the City of London, and the Parishes and Places mentioned in the Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) to this Act; "the City of London" shall be deemed to include all Parts now within the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London; and the Word " Parish" shall include any Place mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, and any Place or Combination of Places mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, for which One or more Member or Members is or are to be elected to any District Board; the Expression " the Overseers of the Poor" shall include any Persons authorized to make and collect or cause to be collected the Rate for the Relief of the Poor in any Parish; any Expression referring to any Rate or Rates raised under this Act by the Metropolitan Board of Works or any Vestry or District Board shall mean the Sums and Rates authorized to be raised by the said Metropolitan Board and the Sums authorized to be raised by any Vestry and District Board respectively; the Word "Owner" shall, except for the Purpose of the Provisions of this Act requiring Notice to be served on Owners or reputed Owners of Land, before Application to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for his Consent to exercise Powers of taking Land, or any Right or Easement in or over Land, compulsorily, mean the Person for the Time being receiving the Rackrent of the Lands or Premises in connexion with which the said Word is used, whether on his own Account or as Agent or Trustee for any other Person, or who would so receive the same if such Lands or Premises were let at a Rackrent; the Word "Street" shall apply to and include any Highway (except the Carriageway of any Turnpike Road), and any Road, Bridge (not being a County Bridge), Lane, Footway, Square, Court, Alley, Passage, whether a Thoroughfare or not, and a Part of any such Highway, Road, Bridge, Lane, Footway, Square, Court, Alley, or Passage; the WordDrain" shall mean and include any Drain of and used for the Drainage of One Building only, or Premises within the same Curtilage, and made merely for the Purpose of communicating with a Cesspool or other like Receptacle for Drainage, or with a Sewer into which the Drainage of Two or more Buildings or Premises occupied by different Persons is conveyed, and shall also include any Drain for draining any Group or Block of Houses by a combined Operation under the Order of any Vestry or District Board; and the Word "Sewer" shall mean and include Sewers and Drains of every Description, except Drains to which the Word "Drain," interpreted as aforesaid, applies; and the Word " Ashpit " shall include "Dustbin."

CCLI. This Act shall commence and come into operation, save as herein otherwise provided, on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

SCHE

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Parishes each electing One Member of the Metropolitan Board of

[blocks in formation]

Kensington, Saint Mary Abbot. Saint John Hampstead.

SCHEDULE (B.)

PARISHES UNITED INTO DISTRICTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ACT.

PART I.

Districts each electing One Member of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
« ZurückWeiter »