Aberdeen Police and Waterworks Act 1862
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1862 c. cciii |
| Year | 1862 |
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO & VICESIMO SEXTO
VICTORIA REGIN.E.
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Cap.
cciii
An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting', watching,
draining, and improving the City of Aberdeen
and adjacent Districts, for regulating the Police
thereof,
for supplying the Inhabitants with
Water, and for other Purposes.
[/th August 1862.]
W
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of the
Reign of His Majesty King
George
the Fourth, intituled
An Act for
better
paving,
cleansing,
lighting, watching, and
10
G. 4.
improving ike Streets, Lanes, and other public Places and Passages c,xli'
within the City of Aberdeen, and certain Grounds adjacent, for
regulating the Police
thereof,
and for supplying the Inhabitants with
Water: And whereas it would be for the public Advantage, and
would promote the Improvement of the said City, Suburbs
thereof,
and Districts adjacent, if more enlarged Powers and Provisions were
granted for the Purposes of draining, paving, cleansing, lighting,
watching, and improving the same, and for regulating the Police
thereof:
And whereas the present Supply of Water to the said
City, Suburbs
thereof,
and Districts adjacent, obtained under the
[Local.'] 34 0 Baid
3090 25°
&
26° VICTORIA,
Cap.
cciii.
The Aberdeen Police and Waterworks Act, 1862.
said Act, has become inadequate and insufficient for the Wants of
the Inhabitants, owing to the Extension of the Town and Suburbs,
and the Increase of the Population, and it is expedient that Powers
should be granted to take an additional Supply of Water from the
River Dee, at or near
Cairnton
in the Parish of
Banchory-Ternan
and County of
Kincardine,
and to borrow Money to defray the
Expense
thereof,
and for other Purposes relating to the Improvement
of the said City, Suburbs
thereof,
and Districts adjacent; but these
Objects cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament: May
it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it
enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, as follows:
Short
Title.
\% This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Aberdeen
Police and Waterworks Act, 1862."
Interpreta- 2. The following Words and Expressions in this Act shall, unless
Terms. tnere De m the Subject or Context something repugnant to or incon-
sistent with such Construction, have the several Meanings hereby
assigned to them:
" The recited Act" shall mean the said Act passed in the Tenth
Year of the Reign of His Majesty King
George
the Fourth:
" Commissioners" shall mean the Commissioners appointed or
elected and acting under the Provisions of this Act for the
Time being :
" City " shall mean the City or Royal Burgh of
Aberdeen:
" Council" shall mean the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council
of the said City or Royal Burgh:
" Provost and Magistrates" shall mean the Provost and Magistrates
of the said#City or Royal Burgh:
" Provost," '' Bailies," " Dean of Guild," " City Treasurer," shall
respectively mean the Provost, Bailies, Dean of Guild, and
Treasurer of the said City or Royal Burgh:
"Town Clerk" shall mean the Town Clerk of the said City or
Royal Burgh, and shall include the Depute Town Clerk
thereof:
"
Sheriff"
shall mean the Sheriff of the County of
Aberdeen,
and
shall include the Sheriffs Substitute of the said County :
" Magistrate " shall mean the Provost and Bailies of the said City
or Royal Burgh, and the Sheriff and Sheriffs Substitute of the
said County, or any One or more of them, sitting as the Magistrate
or Magistrates of Police in the Police Court, or otherwise acting
under the Provisions of this Act:
"Procurator Fiscal" shall mean the Procurator Fiscal of the
Bailie or Burgh Court of
Aberdeen,
and shall include his Depute:
" Treasurer,"
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The Aberdeen Police and Waterworks Act, 1862.
" Treasurer," " Clerk," " Collector," " Superintendent of Police,"
" Surveyor," and " Inspector" shall respectively mean the
Treasurer, Clerk, Collector, Superintendent of Police, Surveyor,
and Inspector appointed by or acting under the Commissioners
under the Provisions of this Act:
"Lands" shall mean and include Houses, Buildings, Lands,
Tenements, and Heritages of any Description or Tenure:
"Premises" shall mean and include Dwelling Houses, Shops,
Warehouses, Vaults, Cellars, Stables, Mills, Breweries, Manu-
factories, and other Buildings, Stations, Depots, and Buildings
for Railway Purposes, Lines of Railway, Building Yards and
Timber Yards, and all other Buildings and Places where Goods
or other Property are deposited, or Business or Trade or
Manufacture is carried on, and the Pertinents
thereof:
"Street" shall extend to and include any public Road, Bridge,
Lane, Square, Court, Alley, Close, Wynd, Yennel, Passage, or
Thoroughfare for Carriages or Foot Passengers within the Limits
of this Act:
" Wards" shall mean the Districts or Wards into which the
Territory within the Limits of this Act is or shall be for the
Time divided for the Purpose of electing Commissioners under
this Act, and " Ward" shall mean any One of such Districts or
Wards:
" General Assessments" shall mean and include the Assessments
for General Purposes and the Water Rates leviable under the
Authority of this Act:
" District Assessment" shall mean any Sewer Rate leviable under
the Authority of this Act within, over, and confined to a
Drainage District to be formed in pursuance of the Provisions of
this Act:
"Private Assessment" shall mean any Assessment or Charge
on Individuals for House Drainage or otherwise under this
Act:
" Owner," used with reference to any Lands or Premises in respect
of which any Work is required to be done or any Assessment
is to be levied under this Act, shall mean the Person for the
Time entitled to receive, or who, if such Lands or Premises
were let to a Tenant at a Rackrent, would be entitled to receive,
the Rackrent from the Occupier
thereof,
or who shall be in
the actual Receipt of the Rent of such Lands or Premises :
"Occupier" shall mean the Person in the Occupation of any
Lands or Premises, and shall include any Person by whom a
furnished House is let for a less Period than One Year, but shall
not include any Person who is in the Occupation of a furnished
House so let: " Householder "
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