Bridgwater Corporation Act 1928
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1928 c. cvi |
| Year | 1928 |
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5.] Bridgwater [Ch. CViJ
Corporation
Act, 1928.
CHAPTER cvi
An Act to extend the boundaries of the borough
A.D.
1928.
of Bridgwater to empower the Corporation to
acquire lands and execute street works and
waterworks and to confer further powers upon
the Corporation of the said borough in regard
to their water and markets undertakings and
the health local government and improvement
of the borough and for other purposes.
[3rd August 1928.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Bridgwater in the county
of Somerset is a municipal borough under the
government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the
borough of Bridgwater (in this Act called " the Cor-
poration ") and the Corporation acting by the council of
the borough are the sanitary authority for the borough
with the powers and obligations of an urban sanitary
authority:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the local
Acts specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act
and of the Orders specified in Part II of that schedule
are in force in the existing borough:
And whereas the parish of Bridgwater Without in
the rural district of Bridgwater is situate in the admin-
istrative county of Somerset and adjoins the existing
borough: , . • -
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A.D.
1928. And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the
— boundaries of the existing borough so as to include within
the borough parts of the parish of Bridgwater Without:
And whereas the existing borough is co-extensive
with the existing parish of Bridgwater which forms part
of the Bridgwater iMbn and the existing parish of
Bridgwater Without forms part of the same union and it
is expedient to alter and extend the boundaries of the
existing parish of Bridgwater so as to include within
that parish parts of the parish of Bridgwater Without:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
should be empowered to construct street widenings and
improvements and new streets in the borough and acquire
lands for those purposes and that further powers should
be conferred upon them with respect to the acquisition of
lands:
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And whereas the Corporation are the owners of
waterworks and supply water within the borough and in
certain adjoining and neighbouring parishes and it is
expedient to extend the limits of supply of the Corpora-
tion so asrto include therein the borough as extended by
this Act to authorise the construction of additional
waterworks and to make further provision with regard
to the water undertaking of the Corporation and the
supply of water by them :
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the
markets undertaking within the borough and it is
expedient that further powers should be conferred upon
them with regard to that undertaking and to the fairs
held Avithin the borough :
And whereas it is expedient to make further and
better provision with regard to the health local govern-
ment and improvement of the boroilgh and that the
powers.of the Corporation in regard thereto should be
enlarged as is provided in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to make further
provision with regard to the finances of the Corporation :
. , And whereas it is expedient that the other pro-
visions contained in this Act be enacted : •
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament: '
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Corporation Act, 1928.
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the A.D. 1928.
Corporation for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and —
such estimates are as follows (that is to
say):
— £
For the construction of the new streets
and street widenings and improve-
ments by this Act authorised - - 4,097
For the construction of the waterworks
by this Act authorised - 10,200
And whereas the several 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 in relation to the promotion of the Bill
for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds Acts
1872 and 1903 have been observed :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines
and levels of the works authorised by this Act and also a
book of reference 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 were
duly deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county
of Somerset which plans sections and book of reference
are in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited
plans sections and book of reference :
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: —
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Bridgwater Short title.
Corporation Act 1928.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows
: —
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Borough extension.
Part III.—Street works.
Part IV.—Waterworks and water supply.
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Division of
Act into
Parts.
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