Conway Corporation Act 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1965 c. xxxv |
| Year | 1965 |
Conway Corporation
Act
1965
CH. XXXV
ELIZABETH H
1965 CHAPTER xxxv
An Act to provide for the transfer of the Conway Bridge to
the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of
Conway or the National Trust for places of Historic
Interest or Natural Beauty or other body approved by
the Minister of Public Building and Works and for
the dissolution of the Conway Bridge Commissioners;
to authorise the taking down and removal of the said
bridge; to make further provision with regard to the
health, local government, improvement and finances
of the borough; and for other purposes.
[5th August 1965]
WHEREAS"
(1) The borough of Conway in the county of Caernarvon (in
this Act referred to as " the borough ") is a municipal borough
under the management and local government of the mayor,
aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act referred to
as "the Corporation"):
(2) By virtue of the Conway Bridge Act, 1878, the Conway
c
Ixviii.
Bridge (in this Act referred to as " the bridge ") was vested in
the Conway Bridge Commissioners (in this Act referred to as
" the commissioners "), and it was provided by that Act that
the commissioners should be the persons who for the time being
are members of the town council of the borough:
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(3) It is expedient to provide for the dissolution of the com-
missioners and for the transfer of the undertaking of the
commissioners as in this Act provided:
(4) By an agreement entered into in July, 1954, between the
commissioners and the Minister of Transport, the commissioners
agreed to sell to that Minister their interest in certain lands in the
borough containing 1.962 acres or thereabouts (in this Act
referred to as " the specified lands") forming part of their
undertaking:
(5) By virtue of the Secretary of State for Wales and Minister
of Land and Natural Resources Order, 1965, the functions of
the
Minister of Transport in relation to the subject-matter of the
said agreement were transferred to the Secretary of State:
(6) Doubts have arisen as to the powers of the commis-
sioners to carry the said agreement into effect and it is expedient
to vest the specified lands in the Secretary of State as by this Act
provided:
(7) By virtue of the Chester-Bangor Trunk Road (Conway
S.T.
No.
1226 By-Pass Bridge) Order, 1951, the Minister of Transport has
constructed another bridge over the navigable waters of the river
Conway and in consequence the bridge
is
no longer used for traffic:
(8) The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or
Natural Beauty have represented to the Corporation that they
desire to be given an opportunity to preserve the bridge as a
building of special architectural or historic interest and it is
expedient to make provision to enable them or such other body
desirous of preserving and maintaining the bridge as may be
approved by the Minister of Public Building and Works to acquire
the bridge and the approaches thereto for that purpose:
(9) It is expedient to authorise the taking down and removal
of the bridge by the body in whom it is vested in pursuance of
this Act:
(10) It is expedient to make further provision with reference to
the health, local government, improvement and finances of the
borough and that the powers of the Corporation in regard thereto
should be enlarged and extended as in this Act provided:
(11) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act be enacted:
(12) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(13) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act, the
c.
51.
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act, 1933,
have been observed:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by
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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
1.
This Act may be cited as the Conway Corporation Act
1965.
Short title.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Conway Bridge.
Part III.—Streets.
Part IV.—Parks, municipal property, seashore, etc.
Part V.—Finance.
Part VI.—Miscellaneous.
Part VII.—General.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpre-
meanings are assigned by section 295 of the Act of
1959,
have the tatl0n-
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—
" the Act of 1878 " means the Conway Bridge Act, 1878; c. lxviii.
" the Act of 1933 " means the Local Government Act,
1933;
c.
51.
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act, 1936;
c.
49.
" the Act of 1959 " means the Highways Act, 1959; c. 25.
" the Act of 1960 " means the Road Traffic Act, 1960; c. 16.
" the Act of 1962 " means the Town and Country Planning
c.
38.
Act, 1962;
" the appointed day" has the meaning assigned to that
expression by section 47 (The appointed day) of this Act;
" the approaches " means the approaches to the bridge shown
coloured blue on the signed plan, together with any
buildings thereon and together with so much of the wall
shown on the signed plan as belongs to the commis-
sioners as is not included in the definition of " the
specified lands";
" authorised security " means any mortgage, stock, bond or
other security which the Corporation are for the time
being authorised to grant, create or issue, or upon or
by means of which the Corporation are for the time
being authorised to raise money;
Division
of
Act
into
Parts.
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