Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Act 1986
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1986 c. xvii |
| Year | 1986 |
Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and
Act 1986
1
ELIZABETH II
1986 CHAPTER xvii
An Act to provide for the motor road of the
Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry
Company to continue as part of the Company's
undertaking; to authorise the Company to execute
works; to confer other powers on the Company in
relation to their undertaking including powers to raise
additional capital; to amend or repeal certain of the
local statutory provisions applicable to them; and for
other purposes. [25th July 1986]
EREAS the Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and
Ferry Company (hereinafter referred to as "the
Company") were incorporated by the Bburnemouth-
Swanage
Motor Road and Ferry Act
1923
and
by
that Act
were
I923c.lxxxviii.
authorised to construct a motor road and ferry to provide a
more direct means of communication between Bournemouth
and Swanage:
And whereas
further
powers were
conferred on the Company
by
the
Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Act 1928
1928
c.
viii.
r
2 c. xvii
Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and
Ferry'
Act
1986
and the Boumemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Act
1956 c. Ixiii. 1956 and the Company are now carrying on their undertaking
pursuant to those Acts and the said Act of 1923:
And whereas
65
years after the passing of the said Act of
1923
the rights, powers and obligations of the Company in relation to
their motor road are to cease whereupon the motor road
will
become a public highway:
And whereas it is expedient to provide for the motor
road to
remain vested in the Company as part of their undertaking:
And whereas for the avoidance of obstructions and
delay to
traffic on the motor road and for the better regulation and
management of such traffic it is expedient that the Company
•
construct the work authorised by this Act and that the other
powers contained in this Act in relation to the motor road
be
conferred on the Company:
And whereas it
is
expedient to authorise the Company
to raise
additional share and loan capital for the purpose of financing
the future management and improvement of their undertaking
and also to enact further provisions relative to the capital
and
administration of the Company:
And whereas it is expedient to confer new powers upon
the
Company regarding the acquisition and disposal of land and the
revision and payment of
tolls,
as in this Act contained, and
that
certain of the local enactments applicable to the Company
should be amended and others repealed as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the other powers contained
in this Act should be conferred on the Company:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas a plan and section showing the lines and levels
of the work by this Act authorised and the lands which may
be
used for the purposes of that work, together with a book of
reference to the said plan containing the names of the
owners or
reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and of the
occupiers of
all such lands and describing the same, have been deposited
m
the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill
office of the House of Commons and with the chief executive
ot
the Dorset County Council and such plan, section and book ot
reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited
plan, the deposited section 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:—
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