Barry Corporation. Act 1970
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1970 c. lxvii |
Barry Corporation
Act
1970
c. Ixvii
ELIZABETH H
1970 CHAPTER lxvii
An Act to confer further powers on the mayor, aldermen
and burgesses of the borough of
Barry;
to make better
provision with respect to the improvement, local
government and finances of
the
borough; and for other
purposes. [17th December 1970]
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HEREAS—
(1) The borough of Barry (hereinafter called " the borough ")
is a borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen and
burgesses of
the
borough (hereinafter called " the Corporation "):
(2) It is expedient to make better provision with reference to
the improvement, local government and
finances
of
the
borough,
and that the powers of the Corporation in relation thereto should
be enlarged and extended as by this Act provided:
(3) It is expedient that the other provisions of this Act should
be enacted:
(4) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
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Barry Corporation
Act
1970
(5) 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:
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 Barry Corporation Act
1970.
(2) The Barry Corporation Acts
1896
to 1966 together with this
Act may be cited together as the Barry Corporation Acts 1896
to 1970.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Borough services.
Part III.—Superannuation and finance.
Part IV.—Management services.
Part V.—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions to which
meanings are assigned by section 343 of the Act of 1936 have the
same respective meanings unless there be something in the subject
or context repugnant to such construction.
(2) In this Act unless otherwise expressly enacted or unless the
subject or context otherwise requires the following expressions
have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
" the Act of
1933
" means the Local Government Act 1933;
1136
c.
49.
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" apparatus" includes any structure constructed for the
lodging therein of apparatus;
"the appointed day" has the meaning assigned to it by
section 51 (The appointed day) of this Act;
" the borough " means the borough of Barry;
" contravention " includes a failure to comply and " contra-
vene " shall be construed accordingly;
" the Corporation" means the mayor, aldermen and
burgesses of the borough acting by the council;
1933 c. 51.
Short and
collective
titles.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
Barry Corporation
Act
1970
c. l?tvii 3
" the council" means the council of the borough; PART I
" the electricity board " means the South Wales Electricity ~co"t-
Board;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act or in any
public general or local Act and any order, byelaw,
scheme or regulation for the time being in force within
the borough;
" the gas board " means the Wales Gas Board;
" the generating board" means the Central Electricity
Generating Board;
" land " includes buildings, land covered by water and any
interest in land or any easement or right in, to or over
land;
"magistrates' court" has the same meaning as in the
Magistrates' Courts Act 1952;
1952
c 55.
" operational land " has the same meaning as in the Town
and Country Planning Act 1962;
1962
c.
38.
" the statutory undertakers" means the electricity board,
the gas board, the generating board and the water
undertakers;
" town clerk " means the town clerk of the borough;
" the water undertakers " has the same meaning as in the
provisions of the Water Act 1945, other than those
1945
c 42.
contained in Part II of that Act.
(3) Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be con-
strued as a reference to that enactment as applied, extended,
amended or varied by or by virtue of any subsequent enactment,
including this Act.
PART II
BOROUGH SERVICES
4.—(1) A person, other than an officer of the Corporation
As
to offences
or a person or the servant of a person who has a contract with m bu™1
the Corporation in or about any work in connection with the groun s'
burial grounds maintainable by the Corporation, shall not,
except for the purpose of properly tending any grave, pluck out
or otherwise interfere with any flower, plant, shrub, wreath,
ornament, memorial or other thing in a burial ground or
crematorium.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this section,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to 3
fine not exceeding twenty pounds,
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