Charing Cross and Victoria Embankment Approach Act 1873

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1873 c. c
[36 & 37 VICT.J The Charing
Cross
and Victoria [Ch. C.]
Mnbankment Approach Act, 1873.
CHAPTER c.
An Act for making a new Street from Charing Cross to the
A.D.
1873.
Victoria Embankment. [7th July 1873.]
TTfTHEHEAS the making a new street from Charing Cross to
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the Victoria Embankment would be a work of public utility
and an important metropolitan improvement, and it is expedient
that the Metropolitan Board of Works, in this Act called " the
Board," be authorised to undertake and carry the same into
effect:
And whereas the Board have caused to be deposited with the
clerk of the peace for the county of Middlesex plans and sections
describing the line and levels of the intended new street, and the
lands which will or may be required for the purposes
thereof,
or
which may be taken under the powers of this Act, and a book of
reference containing the names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers
of those lands, and describing the same lands, and such plans,
sections, and books of reference are in this Act respectively referred
to as the deposited plans, sections, and books of reference :
And whereas the Board are unable to construct the said new
street 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,)
1.
This Act may be cited as " The Charing Cross and Victoria short title.
Embankment Approach Act,
1873."
2.
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860, and Lands
1869,"
(except section 133 of the first-mentioned Act, and also such Clauses Acts
of the provisions of those Acts as are varied by or excepted from or
inconsistent with this Act,) are incorporated with and form part of
this Act.
[LocaL-WO.] A 1
Interpreta-
tion of
terms,
[Ch.
C.] The Charing
Gross
and Victoria [36 & 37 VICT.]
Mrtbcmkment
Approach Act, 1873.
A.D.
1873.
3. In this Act the following words and expressions have the
several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction
•,
(that is to say,)
The word "justice'" means justice of the peace acting for
the county, borough,- liberty? of place where the matter requir-
ing the cognizance of aalyh 'justice stall arise, and who
shall not be interested on the matter. "When any matter shall
require to be done before justices the expression " two justices "
shall be understood to mean two justices assembled and acting
together in petty sessions, or a metropolitan police magistrate
sitting alone;
The word " streets " shall include streets, courts, alleys, high-
ways,
roads, thoroughfares, or public passages or places;
The term "improvement" means the new street and works
connected therewith by this Act authorised;
The expression " the Board " means the Metropolitan Board of
Works;
The word " lessee " shall include any person holding a sub-lease;
And the several words and expressions to which by the Acts
incorporated herewith meanings are assigned have in this Act
the same respective meanings, unless there be in the subject
or context something repugnant to or inconsistent with such
construction.
Power to
make new
street.
Improve-
ments to be
made accord-
4.
The Board may construct a new street in the parish of
St. Martin in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, commencing
at Charing Cross, and terminating at the Victoria Embankment,
near the Charing Cross station of the Metropolitan District
Railway.
5.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the improvement may
be made in or upon the lands delineated on the deposited plans
ing to
de-
and described in the deposited books of reference, and the Board
posited
plans,
may enter upon, take, use, and hold such of the said lands as they
may deem necessary for the purposes of the improvement, and for
providing space for the erection of houses and buildings adjoining
and near thereto.
Sale
of 6. Algernon George Duke of Northumberland and Henry George
Northumber- Percy, commonly called Earl Percy, according to their respective
anddpropCTty estates and interests shall sell to the Board, and the Board shall
for
purposes
purchase and take, for the purposes of this Act, the lands and
of
Act.
property comprised in the two agreements of the 28th day of
February 1873, set forth in the schedule to this Act (one made
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