Cheltenham Improvement Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. clxxxiv |
[52 & 53 VICT.] Cheltenham Improvement [Ch. ClXXXiv.]
Act, 1889.
CHAPTER clxxxiv.
An Act to make further and better provision for the
A.D.
1889.
improvement health and good government of the
borough of Cheltenham to provide for the issue of
Corporation Stock and for other purposes.
[26th August 1889.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Cheltenham in the county of
Gloucester is a municipal borough under the government for
municipal and other purposes of the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough (herein-after called " the Corporation ") who are also
the urban sanitary authority for the district of the borough :
And whereas by the Cheltenham Improvement Act 1852 various
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powers for the improvement of the borough were conferred on the c-1<
Cheltenham Improvement Commissioners appointed for the execu-
tion of that Act which powers are now vested in the Corporation :
And whereas the said Act requires amendment in various par-
ticulars and it is expedient to make further and better provision
with reference to streets and buildings and sanitary matters (in-
cluding provisions for prevention of the spread of infectious diseases)
and with reference to public parks and pleasure grounds :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the trustees of the
hospital known as the Delancey "Fever Hospital and the Corporation
to make arrangements for joint management of the said hospital
and to authorise the Corporation to contribute to the funds of the
Cheltenham General Hospital:
And whereas it would be for the benefit and advantage of the
inhabitants of the borough if the Corporation were empowered to
purchase the pump-room and buildings and pleasure grounds
known as the Pittville Estate and to maintain the same subject
to the provisions of this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to make such provisions as this Act
contains with respect to museums schools of art and similar institu-
tions in the borough and for the regulation of overhead wires and
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1889. hackney carriages and for the prevention of divers offences and
annoyances in the streets of the borough and with respect to other
matters of local government:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Corporation to
borrow for the purpose of contributing to the funds of the Chelten-
ham General Hospital and for acquiring the Pittville Estate :
And whereas it is expedient, that the Corporation be empowered
to exercise their statutory borrowing powers for the time being by
the creation and issue of Corporation Stock :
And whereas it is expedient to enable the Corporation to equate
the periods for repayment of certain of the loans of the Corporation
and to make other provisions in connexion therewith and a state-
ment of such loans and sinking funds existing on the twenty-fifth
day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine is set
forth in the Second Schedule to this Act:
And whereas under the Cheltenham Improvement Act 1852
there are leviable certain special district rates and also a general
rate known as the borough rate out of which the expenses of the
Corporation in the execution of the said Act and of the Public
Health Act 1875 are defrayed:
And whereas it is expedient that the expenses of the Corporation
in the execution both of the said Act of 1852 and of the Public
Health Act 1875 be defrayed in manner provided by and out of the
general district rate leviable under the said Public Health Act and
that the rating provisions of the said Act of 1852 and. other of its
provisions which are obsolete or unnecessary be repealed :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the fifteenth day of October one
thousand eight t hundred and eighty-eight after ten clear days'
notice by public advertisement of such meeting and of the purpose
thereof in the " Cheltenham Examiner " a local newspaper pub-
lished or circulating in the borough such notice being in addition to
the ordinary notices required for summoning such meeting resolved
that the expense in relation to promoting the Bjll for this Act
should at the option of the council be charged on the borough
fund borough rate district fund general district rate or other public
funds or rates under the control and management of the council in
such proportions as the council may determine or out of moneys
to be borrowed by the Corporation on the security thereof :
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the " Chel-
tenham Examiner" a local newspaper published or circulating in
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the borough and has received the approval of one of Her Majestys A.D. 1889.
Secretaries of State and of the Local Government Board :
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
the council at a further special meeting held on the twenty-eighth
day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine in
pursuance of a similar notice being not less than fourteen days
after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by
resolution in the manner provided in Schedule III. of the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act:
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):—
PABT
I.—PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Cheltenham short title.
Improvement Act 1889.
2.
This Act is divided into parts as follows (that is to say) :— Act divided
Part I.—Preliminary. into parts.
Part II.—Sanitary provisions.
Part III.—Streets and buildings ; Fires.
Part IV. ~ Parks and pleasure grounds.
Part V.—Purchase of Pittville Estate.
Part VI.—Museums schools of art &c.
Part VII.—Overhead wires &c.
Part VIII.—Hackney carriages.
Part IX.—Porters' licenses.
Part X.—Markets and slaughter-houses.
Part XL—Lands.
Part XII.—Byelaws.
Part XIII.—Private improvement works and expenses.
Part XIV.—Borrowing powers and rates.
Part XV.—Corporation Stock.
Part XVI.—Miscellaneous.
3.
In this Act the following words and expressions have the interpreta-
meanings hereby assigned to them respectively unless there be
tion of
terms.
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