Colwyn Bay and District Gas Act 1896

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1896 c. lviii
[59
&
60 VICT.]
Golwyn
Bay and District Gas Act, 1896. [Ch. lviii.]
An Act for incorporating and conferring powers on the A.D.1896.
Colwyn Bay and District Gas Company.
[2nd July 1896.]
HEREAS in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
three certain persons formed themselves into a gas company
under the name of the Colwyn Bay and District Gas and Lighting
Company Limited (herein-after referred to as " the Limited Company")
for the purpose of supplying gas in the parish of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos
in the county of Denbigh and in the parish of Birias in the county
of Carnarvon and generally for carrying on the business usually
carried on by gas companies and such Company was duly registered
without articles of association under the Companies Acts 1862 to
1880:
And whereas by the Colwyn Bay and District Gas Order 1884
(in this Act called"" the Order of 188-1"} made by the Board of Trade
under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act
1870 and confirmed by the Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Act
1884 the Limited Company were constituted the undertakers
for the purposes of that Order and it was provided that the limits
within which the Order should be in force should be the said
parishes of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos and Eirias and that the share capital
of the Limited Company should not for the purposes of their
gas undertaking authorised by the Order exceed eight thousand
pounds nnless they were authorised to raise for such purposes
additional share capital by Provisional Order or by Act of
Parliament:
And whereas the present share capital of the Limited Company
consists of eight thousand pounds divided into one thousand six
hundred shares of five pounds each the whole of which have been
subscribed and are fully paid up and the Limited Company have
borrowed on mortgage two thousand pounds:
And whereas the Limited Company purchased the piece of land
firstly described in the schedule to this Act and erected gasworks
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lviiij
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Bay
and District Gas
Act, 1896. [59
& 60
ViCTl]
A.D.
1896.
thereon and have from time to time improved and enlarged the
same with the capital raised by them and are now supplying gas
within the said parishes of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos and Eirias:
And whereas it is expedient that the. Limited Company should
be dissolved and re-incorporated with further powers and that
the Order of 1884 be repealed:
And whereas the demand for gas in the district supplied by the
Limited Company has increased and is increasing and it is expedient
that the Company incorporated by this Act should be empowered to
improve and extend such works and to acquire the land secondly
described in the schedule to this Act and to erect gasworks thereon
and that for such purposes and other the purposes of this Act the
Company should be authorised to raise additional capital as by this
Act provided:
And whereas a plan showing the lands which may be taken
under the powers of this Act and a book of reference thereto
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands were duly
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of Denbigh
and are herein-after respectively referred to as the deposited plan
and book of reference :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected 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):
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Colwyn Bay and District Gas
Act 1896.
Incorpora- 2. The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 the Gas-
tion of
Acts.
workg clauses Act 1847 except section 31 and Part I. (relating to
cancellation and surrender of shares) Part II. (relating to additional
capital) and Part III. (relating to debenture stock) of the Companies
Clauses Act 1863 as amended by the Companies Clauses Act 1869
and the Lands Clauses Acts are subject to the provisions of this
Act incorporated with and form part of this Act and the Gasworks
Clauses Act 1871 shall subject to the like provisions apply to the
existing undertaking of the Limited Company as if the same had
been authorised by this Act.
Interpreta- 3. In this Act the several words and expressions to which
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be

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