Barnsley Corporation Act 1956
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1956 c. lxxxv |
4 & 5 Euz. 2
Barnsley Corporation
Act, 1956
Ch.
lxxx?
CHAPTER Ixxxv
An Act to authorise the mayor aldermen and buigesses of
the county borough of Barnsley to construct additional
waterworks and to acquire lands to extend their limits
for the supply of water and to transfer to and vest in
the said mayor aldermen and burgesses the water under-
taking of the urban district council of Penistone and
other works to make further provision with respect to
the improvement health and local government of the
borough and for other purposes. [2nd August 1956.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Barnsley (hereinafter called
" the borough ") is a county borough under the govern-
ment of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the
borough (hereinafter called " the Corporation "):
And whereas the Corporation are authorised undertakers for
the supply of water and supply water within limits which are
described in the Barnsley Local Board Act 1862 and the
Barnsley Corporation (Water) Act 1896 and comprise the
borough and certain adjacent districts:
And whereas with a view to ensuring that the Corporation
shall be and continue to be in a position to meet the demands
made upon them for the supply of water it is expedient that
the Corporation should be empowered to construct the new
works described in this Act and to abstract water by means
thereof and to acquire lands for the purpose
thereof:
And whereas by section 18 (Restriction on taking waters) of
the Barnsley Corporation (Water) Act 1927 the Corporation are
restricted as to the quantity of water which they may appropriate
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And whereas the demand for water within the limits of
supply of the Corporation and for supplies by them of water in
bulk has increased is increasing and is likely further to increase:
And whereas it is expedient that notwithstanding the con-
struction of the new works described in this Act the quantity of
compensation water which the Corporation are required to
discharge into the streams tributary to the river Don should not
be varied except as provided in this Act and that the obligations
of the Corporation in regard to the discharge of compensation
water into the said streams should be varied as mentioned in this
Act:
And whereas estimates have been prepared for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned and such estimates are as follows:—
£
For the construction of Work No. 9 by this Act
authorised 345,000
the construction of Work
No.
14
by this Act
authorised 12,000
the construction of Work
No.
10
by this Act
authorised 15,000
the construction of Work
No.
11
by this Act
authorised 68,000
the construction of Works Nos. 8 12 13 15
and 16 by this Act authorised 109,000
And whereas the works included in such estimates are
permanent works and it is expedient that the cost thereof should
be spread over a term of years:
And whereas the urban district council of Penistone (herein-
after called " the urban district council") have constructed
waterworks and are supplying water under the powers of the
Public Health Act 1936 in the urban district of Penistone and
afford supplies of water in bulk to the urban district council of
Darton and the rural district council of Penistone:
And whereas it is expedient that the water undertaking of
the urban district council should be transferred to and vest in the
Corporation upon the terms prescribed by this Act and that the
limits for the supply of water by the Corporation be extended as
in this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Corporation
in relation to the improvement local government and health of
the borough and other matters should be enlarged as by this Act
provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions of this
Act should be enacted:
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And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained with-
out the authority of Parliament:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act the requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act
1933 have been observed:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines situations
and levels of the works authorised by this Act and a book of
reference to such plans containing the names of the owners
and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers
of the lands required or which may be taken for the purposes
or under the powers of this Act have been duly deposited with
the clerk of the county council of the county of the West Riding
of York which plans sections and book of reference are in this
Act respectively referred to as the deposited plans the deposited
sections and the deposited book of reference:
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:
—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Barnsley Corporation short and
Act 1956. collective
titles.
(2) The Acts and Orders mentioned in the First Schedule
to the Act of 1923 (except the Barnsley Electric Lighting Order
1890) the Barnsley Corporation (Water) Act 1927 the Barnsley
Corporation Act 1937 the Barnsley Corporation Act 1949 the
Barnsley Water Order 1952 and this Act may be cited together
as the Barnsley Corporation Acts and Orders 1822 to 1956.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Waterworks.
Part III.—Lands.
Part IV.—Supply of water.
Part V.—Streets.
Part Vl.-^Public health sanitation and buildings.
Part VII.—Food.
Part VTIL—Public order.
Part IX.—Weights and measures.
Part X.—Financial provisions.
Part XI.—Miscellaneous.
Part XII.—General.
Division
of Act
into
Parts.
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