Canterbury Extension Act 1933
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1933 c. lxxxi |
| Year | 1933 |
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Extension Act, 1933.
CHAPTER lxxxi.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the city of
A.D.
1933.
Canterbury and county of the same city and for •
purposes incidental thereto. [28th July 1933.]
W
HEREAS the city of Canterbury and county of the
same city (hereinafter called "the city") is a
county borough under the government of the mayor
aldermen and citizens of the city (hereinafter called
" the Corporation "):
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the
local Acts specified in Part I of the First Schedule to
this Act and the Orders specified in Part II of that
schedule are in force in the city :
And whereas the parishes of Saint Dunstan Without
and Hackington in the rural district of Blean and the
parishes of Harbledown and Thannington Without in
the rural district of Bridge are respectively situate
in the administrative county of Kent and immediately
adjoin the city:
And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend
the boundaries of the city so as to include therein parts
oBhe said parishes of Saint Dunstan Without Hackington
Harbledown and Thannington Without:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act be enacted :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be .
effected without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the
Bill for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds
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Canterbury [23 & 24
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Extension Act, 1933.
A.D.
1933. Acts 1872 and 1903 as amended by the Local Government
— (County Boroughs and Adjustments) Act 1926 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):—
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
Short title, 1. This Act may be cited as the Canterbury
Extension Act 1933.
Interpreta. 2.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions
tion. to which meanings are assigned by the Public Health
Acts shall have the same respective meanings unless there
be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context
otherwise requires—
" Existing" in relation to any area altered by
this Act means existing immediately before
the appointed day;
" The city" means until the appointed day the
existing city of Canterbury and county of the
same city and thereafter the existing city of
Canterbury and county of the same city as
extended by this Act;
" The Corporation" means the mayor aldermen
and citizens of the city;
"The council" means the council of the city;
"The mayor" "the town clerk" and "the
treasurer " mean respectively the mayor the
town clerk and the treasurer of the city and
include respectively any person duly authorised
to discharge temporarily the duties of those
offices respectively;
" The general rate fund " and " the general rate "
mean respectively the general rate fund and the
general rate of the city;
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Extension Act, 1933.
" The local Acts " means the local Acts specified A.D. 1933.
in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act the —
Orders specified in Part II of that schedule
and so much of the confirmation Acts specified
in that Part as relates to those Orders;
" The appointed day " means the first day of April
nineteen hundred and thirty-four;
" The city map " means the map marked " Map of
" the city of Canterbury as extended by the
" Canterbury Extension Act 1933 " and signed
in triplicate by the Right Honourable the
Earl of Onslow the Chairman of the Committee
of the House of Lords to which the Bill for
this Act was referred one copy 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 ward map" means the map marked "Map
" of the wards of the city of Canterbury as
" extended by the Canterbury Extension Act
" 1933 " and signed in triplicate by the Right
Honourable the Earl of Onslow the Chairman
of the Committee of the House of Lords to
which the Bill for this Act was referred one
copy of which has been deposited in the Parlia-
ment 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 Kent
and the county council of that county;
" The Blean district " and " the Bridge district "
mean respectively the Blean rural district and
the Bridge rural district;
" The Blean Council " and " the Bridge Council "
mean respectively the Blean Rural District
Council and the Bridge Rural District Council;
" The district councils " means the Blean Council
and the Bridge Council;
" The added part of Saint Dunstan " " the added
part of Hackington" "the added part of
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