Birkenhead Extension Act 1927

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Citation1927 c. cv
Year1927
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5.] Birkenhead Extension [Oh* cyj
Act, 1927.
CHAPTER cv.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the borough
A.D.
1927.
of Birkenhead and for other purposes. ,,
[29th July 1927.]
TT7HEREAS the borough of Birkenhead (in this Act
VV referred to as "the borough") is a municipal
borough subject to the Acts relating to municipal
corporations and is a county borough within the meaning
of the Local Government Act 1888 and is subject to
the jurisdiction of the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough (in this Act referred to as " the
Corporation ") :
And whereas the borough comprises the township
of Birkenhead which is situate in the Birkenhead Poor
Law Union: . -
And whereas the townships of Bidston-cum-Ford
Landican Thingwall and Prenton form areas adjoining
the borough and are subject to the jurisdiction of the
rural district council of Wirral:
And whereas the said township of Bidston-cum-Ford
forms part of the Birkenhead Poor Law Union and the
other of the said townships form part of the Wirral
Poor Law Union:
And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of
the borough should be extended so as to include therein
the whole of the said townships other than a portion of
the township of Bidston-cum-Ford:
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And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries
of the township of Birkenhead should be extended
so as to include therein the portion of the township
of Bidston-cum-Ford by this Act added to the borough:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the
several Acts Provisional and other Orders specified in
the schedule to this Act are immediately prior to the
passing of this Act in force within the borough and it
is expedient that those Acts and Orders as amended by
this Act should apply throughout the borough as extended
by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the other powers
contained in this Act should be conferred :
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be
attained without the authority of Parliament r
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill
for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds Act
1872 have been observed :
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be
enacted and be it enacted by the King'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):
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Birkenhead
Extension Act 1927.
Interpre- 2. In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
tation. requires the expressions
" The appointed day " means the first day of April
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight;
" The existing borough" means the borough of
Birkenhead as it exists at the passing of this
Act;
"The borough" means until the appointed day the
existing borough and thereafter the existing
borough as extended by this Act;
-'The council" means the council of the borough;
. " The Corporation" means the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough acting by the
council;
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5.] Birkenhead Extension [Oh. CVj
Act, 1927.
" The town clerk" means the town clerk of the A.D. 1927.
borough and includes any person duly appointed
by the Corporation to discharge temporarily
the duties of any such officer;
" The borough fund" and '' the borough rate"
mean respectively the borough fund and the
borough rate of the borough until the date
when the first new valuation list made under
Part II of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925
comes into force in the borough and thereafter
the general rate fund and the general rate of
the borough;
" The borough map" means the map marked
" Map of the Borough of Birkenhead as extended
by the Birkenhead Extension Act 1927 " and
signed in triplicate by the Right Honourable
Viscount Younger of Leckie the Chairman of
the Committee of the House of Lords to whom
the Bill for this Act was referred one of which
has been deposited in the Parliament Office of
the House of Lords one in the Committee and
Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and
one with the town clerk at his office;
" The county" and the " county council" mean
respectively the administrative county of Chester
and the county council of that county;
" The Wirral District " and " the Wirral. Council"
mean respectively the rural district of Wirral
and the rural district council of that district;
" The parish councils " means the parish councils of
the existing townships of Bidston-cum-Ford
Thingwall and Prenton;
" The added area" means the portion of the
township of Bidston-cum-Ford and the town-
ships of Landican Thingwall and Prenton by
this Act added to the borough;
" The added part of Bidston-cum-Ford" means
the part of the existing township of Bidston-
cum-Ford which is by this Act added to the
"borough and is edged red on the borough
map and " the excluded part of Bidston-cum-
Ford " means the remaining part
thereof;
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