Belfast Water Act 1889

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1889 c. clv
[52 & 53 VICT.] BelfastWater Act, 1889. [Ch. civ.]
CHAPTER civ.
An Act to authorise the Belfast Water Commissioners to A-
construct Works for filtering the supply of Water to the
City of Belfast and the Suburban Districts adjacent thereto
to confer further powers on the Commissioners and for
other purposes. [12th August 1889.]
W
HEREAS by the Belfast Water Acts 1840 to 1884 the Belfast
"Water Commissioners (in this Act called "the Commis-
sioners ") were incorporated, and their powers from time to time
defined and regulated :
And whereas it is expedient that the supply of water to the
city and suburban districts should be filtered and that the Com-
missioners should be empowered to acquire lands and waters and
to execute works and to raise further moneys for that purpose :
And whereas it is expedient that the Commissioners should be
empowered to acquire additional lands for the general purposes of
their undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient to extend the time fixed by the Act
of 1884 for the taking of lands and the completion of some of the
works authorised by that Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the qualification of electors
and the mode of electing the Commissioners should be altered and
amended :
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Commissioners
with regard to the repayment of money borrowed under the recited
Acts should be altered and amended and that some of the other
provisions of the recite:! Acts should be repealed or amended and
that extended borrowing powers should be granted to the Commis-
sioners :
And whereas it is expedient that the Commissioners be empowered
to exercise their statutory borrowing powers for the time being by
means of the creation and issue of stock:
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Civ.] BelfastWater Act, 1889. [52 & 53 VICT.]
A.D.
1889. And whereas by the Act of 1884 the powers and jurisdiction of
the Commissioners were greatly enlarged and extended so as to
comprehend an extensive area outside the city of Belfast and it is
expedient that the name and style of the Commissioners should be
changed from the name the Belfast Water Commissioners to the
name the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the works authorised by this Act and also books of reference con-
taining the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and
lessees and of the occupiers of the lands and waters required or which
may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were
duly deposited with the respective clerks of the peace for the county
of Antrim and the county of the town of Carrickfergus and are
herein-after respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections
and books of reference :
And whereas the purposes of this Act 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 (that is to say):
PART
I.—PRELIMINARY.
Short
title.
1, This Act may be cited as the Belfast Water Act 1889 and is
divided into Parts as follows :
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Power to execute works and take lands and waters.
Part III.—Recovery of rates.
Part IV.—Qualification of Commissioners and electors.
Part V.—Power to borrow money on mortgage.
Part VI.—Sinking fund.
Part VII.—Creation and charge of water stock.
Part VIII.—Miscellaneous.
This Act 2. This Act and the Acts of 1840 1865 1874 1879 and 1884 as
and th,eA each of such Acts is amended and varied by any other of such Acts
to be-con- and by this Act shall be read and construed together as one Act
strued as and may ^e cite(j a8 the Belfast Water Acts 1840 to 1889.
one Act. "
I r ora- 3. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 save so far as any
tion of
Acts,
provisions thereof are inconsistent with the Railways Act (Ireland)
1851 the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act 1860
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[52 & 53 VICT.] BelfastWater Act, 1889. [Oh. civ.]
the Railways Act (Ireland) 1860 the Railways Act (Ireland) 1864 A.D. 1889.
and the Railways Traverse Act 1868 respectively the clauses and
provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 with
respect to the temporary occupation of lands near the railway during
the construction thereof hut so far only as regards the construction
of the filter basins reservoirs and conduits hereby authorised and the
works immediately connected therewith :
Provided that in the case of conduits the powers of that Act with
reference to the temporary occupation of lands shall not be exercised
beyond a distance exceeding fifty yards on either side of the centre
line of the works :
Also the sections of the last-mentioned Act numbered 53 54 55
56 57 and 58 relating to the substitution of other roads for roads
interfered with and to the restoration of roads interfered with in
the execution of the works by this Act authorised and so much of
section 68 of the last-mentioned Act as relates to watering places
for cattle the Railways Act (Ireland) 1851 the Railways Act
(Ireland) 1860 Part II. (extension of time) of the Railways Clauses
Act 1863 the Railways Act (Ireland) 1864 the Railways Traverse
Act 1868 the Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 except sections 68 69
70 71 72 and 73 and the clauses or sections with respect to the
amount of profit to be received by the undertakers when the water-
works are carried on for their benefit the Waterworks Clauses Act
1863 so much of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847 as relates to
the borrowing of money on mortgage and the Companies Clauses
Act 1863 Part IV. relating to change of name are (except where
any of those Acts or sections are expressly varied by or inconsistent
with this Act) incorporated with and form part of this Act And in
the said incorporated Acts or any of them or in any Acts incorpo-
rated therewith or with this Act unless there be something in the
subject or context repugnant to the respective constructions herein-
after defined the expression " the special Act" means this Act the
expressions " the promoters " " the promoters of the undertaking"
"the undertakers" and "the company" mean respectively the
Commissioners the word " secretary" means the secretary of the
Commissioners the expression " the railway " means the works by
this Act authorised to be executed or for which the period for
compulsory purchase of lands or for completion are by this Act
extended as the case may be the expressions " purchase money"
and " compensation " and other equivalent expressions shall include
the compensation in money or water to be made in respect of the
damage to any lands mills manufactories or works situated in the
course of or using any of the waters by this Act authorised to be
taken and appropriated by the Commissioners :
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