Bangor (County Down) Water and Improvement Act 1905

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1905 c. cxcvi
Year1905
[5
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7.] Bangor {County Down) Water and [Oh. CXCVi.]
Improvement Act, 1905.
CHAPTER excvi.
An Act to confer powers on the urban district council A.u 1905.
of Bangor in the county of Down for the construction
of new waterworks for the extension of their gas
undertaking for the regulation and control of the sea-
shore and adjoining lands and for the improvement
and local government of their district and for other
purposes." [11th August 1905.]
W
HEREAS the district of Bangor in the county of Down
(herein-after called *' the districtSJ) is an urban county
district within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland)
Act 1898 and is under the management and control of the urban
district council of Bangor (in this Act called "the Council")
and the Council are the urban sanitary authority for the district
within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 :
And whereas the resident population of the district is esti-
mated to be seven thousand during the winter and fifteen
thousand during the summer and the district is resorted to by
large numbers of persons daily for health and recreation :
And whereas the gross rateable value of the district amounts
to twenty-nine thousand pounds and upwards :
And whereas in pursuance of the Local Government (Appli-
cation of Enactments) Order 1898 under the Local Government
(Ireland) Act 1898 an Order was made by the county council of
the administrative county of Down on the fifth- day of November
one thousand nine hundred and three and duly confirmed by the
Local Government Board extending the boundary of the district
so as to include a portion of the townland of Ballyholme :
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And whereas by the Bangor Waterworks Provisional Order
1881 and the Bangor Waterworks Provisional Order 1892 the
Council were authorised to construct certain waterworks for the
supply of water to the district and have constructed the said
waterworks but the supply of water therefrom is insufficient for
the requirements of the district:
And whereas it is expedient that the Council be authorised
to construct the waterworks in this Act described and to appro -
priate the waters of the streams impounded by the intended
waterworks and to exercise the powers in this Act contained for
preventing the pollution of any waters which the Council are
authorised to take by the intended waterworks and their existing
waterworks and otherwise for the protection of the waterworks
of the Council:
And whereas in pursunnce of powers conferred upon them
by the Bangor Gas Order 1882 the Council have constructed
gasworks and supply gas throughout the district and it is expedient
that the Council be authorised to extend the said gasworks :
And whereas it is expedient and will be for the public and
local advantage that the limits within which the Council may
supply gas be extended as herein-after authorised:
And whereas it is expedient that the Council be authorised
to construct the street widening and improvements herein-after
described :
And whereas in pursuance of an order of the High Court
of Chancery in Ireland dated the nineteenth day of February one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and made in the matter
of the estates settled by the will of the late Right Honourable
Edward Southwell Viscount Bangor certain lands situate in the
district and adjoining the sea and designated " the Slopes " were
by an indenture dated the third day of December one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two conveyed to trustees named in
the said indenture upon trust to be. laid out as a permanent
garden or esplanade :
And whereas it is expedient and would be for the public and
local advantage that the said trustees he authorised to convey the
said Slopes to the Council and that the Council be authorised to
hold maintain and improve the said Slopes for public recreation
and enjoyment as in this Act provided and that the said trustees
or the survivors or survivor of them should be discharged from
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all obligation under the said order of the High Court of Chancery AJX 1905,
and the said indenture with respect to the said Slopes:
And whereas it is expedient that the Council be empowered
to acquire certain other lands within the district adjoining the
sea being a continuation of the said Slopes and to expend the
sums herein-after mentioned in laying out the said Slopes and
lands for the purposes of public recreation and in providing music
and other public entertainments :
And whereas it is expedient to confirm the agreement with
respect to the said Slopes and lands set forth in the schedule to
this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that further powers should be
conferred upon the Council for the preservation of health good
government and improvement of the district:
And whereas it is expedient that the Council be authorised
to borrow such sums as may be required for the purposes of
this Act:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Council
for the purchase of lands and for the execution of the intended
works and such estimates are as follows : £
For the reservoir and aqueducts or lines of pipes - 20000
For the cost of distributing mains in the district of
the Council ----- 2000
For the extension of the gasworks - - - 7000
For street improvements - - 1125
For the acquisition and improvement of lands
adjoining the sea and the erection furnishing
and equipping of pavilions bandstands shelters
and other buildings - 1000
For providing a storeyard or dep6t - - 500
And whereas the works included in such estimates are per-
manent works within the meaning of section 238 of the Public
Health (Ireland) Act 1878 and it is expedient that the cost
thereof should be spread over a term of years :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas in the manner provided by the Borough Funds
(Ireland) Act 1888 an absolute majority of the whole number of
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