Chepping Wycombe Corporation Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. lxxxiii |
| Year | 1927 |
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5.] Ghepping Wycombe [Ch. lxxxiii.]
Corporation Act, 1927,
CHAPTER lxxxiii.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the borough
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1927.
of Chepping Wycombe to provide for the extinc-
tion of the rights of depasturage in the Rye
Mead and to confer further powers upon the
Corporation of the said borough in regard to
their water undertaking and the health local
government and improvement of the borough
and for other purposes. [29th July 1927.]
W
HEREAS the existing borough of Ghepping
Wycombe in the county of Buckingham (herein-
after called " the existing borough") is a municipal
borough under the government of the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough of Chepping Wycombe (in
this Act called " the Corporation ") and the Corporation
acting by the council of the borough are the sanitary
authority for the existing 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 parishes of Chepping Wycombe
(Rural) Hughenden and West Wycombe all in the rural
district of Wycombe are respectively situate in the
administrative county of Buckingham and adjoin the
existing borough:
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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 parishes of Ohepping Wycombe
(Rural) Hughenden- and West Wycombe :
And whereas the existing borough is co-extensive with
the existing parish of High Wycombe which forms part of
the Wycombe Union and the existing parishes of Ohepping
Wycombe (Rural) Hughenden and West Wycombe form
part of the same union and it is expedient to alter and
extend the boundaries of the existing parish of High
Wycombe so as to include within that parish parts of the
parishes of Chepping Wycombe (••Rural)' Hughenden and
West Wycombe :
And whereas the Corporation are or claim to be
seised of the inheritance in fee simple of and in, the soil
and- freehold of' the lands in the borough known: as the
Rye Mead over which it is claimed that certain rights of
depasturage are exerciseable :
And whereas the said, rights are only exercised to a
very limited extent at the present time and it is expedient
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make provision for the extinction of those rights in
manner provided by this Act:
Arid whereas the Corporation are the owners of
waterworks and supply water within* the borough and
in the adjoining parish of Chepping Wycombe (Rural)
and- it
is-
expedient to extend the limits of supply of the
Corporation so* as- to include therein the borough a,s
extended' by this Act arid to make further provision with-
regard to1 the: water undertaking of the Corporation and
the supply of water by them:
And whereas it is expedient to alter or repeal the
powers of the Amersham Beaconsfield and District Water-
works Company Limited in relation to
,
the supply of
water in any part of the extended borough and to make
tether provision iri relation to the supply of- water in
that part of- the- parish of Chepping* WycomBe (Rural)
which-is within the limits of.supply both of the Corporation
and of the said company :
And whereas, it is expedient to- make further and
better provision with regard to the health local- govern-
ment and! improvement of the borough and- that the
powers of the Corporation in regard thereto should be
enlarged as is provided in this Act :
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And, whereas it is-expedient to confer further powers A.D. 1927/.
upon the- Corporation and to make-further provision with —-
regard to rivers streams and watercourses in the borough
and to empower the Corporation to apportion expenses
incurred by them in the execution of such powers among
persons benefited:
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 provisions;
contained in this Act be enacted :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cann,ot 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 Acts
1872 and 1903 have been observed :
And whereas a plan of the lands required or which
may be taken for the purposes or- under the powers of
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 those lands were duly deposited
with the clerk of the peace for the county of Buckingham
and are hereinafter respectively referred to. as the
deposited plan 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 Chepping Wycombe' Short title.
Corporation Act 1927.
2..
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Borough extension.
Part III,—The Rye Mead.
Part IV.—Water supply.
Part V.—Streets buildings and drains.
Part VI.—Streams and watercourses.
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Division of
Act into
Parts.
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