Croydon Corporation Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. cvi |
| Year | 1927 |
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5.] Croydon [Ch, CVi.]
Corporation
Act, 1927.
CHAPTER cvi.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the borough
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1927.
of Croydon to authorise the mayor aldermen and
burgesses of the borough to execute street works
and to extend the time for the construction
of the street works authorised by the Croydon
Corporation Act 1924 to confer further powers
upon the Corporation with regard to their elec-
tricity undertaking and the health local govern-
ment and improvement of the borough and for
other purposes. [29th July 1927.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Croydon in the county of
Surrey (in this Act called " the existing borough ")
is a county borough under the government of the mayor
aldermen and burgesses thereof (in this Act called " the
Corporation ") and the Corporation acting by the council
of the existing 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 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 parish of Addington in the rural
district of Godstone is situate in the administrative
county of Surrey and immediately adjoins the existing
borough :
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1927. And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the
— boundaries of the existing borough so as to include within
the borough the said parish of Addington :
And whereas the existing borough is co-extensive
with the parish of Croydon which forms part of the
Croydon Union and the parish of Addington forms part of
the same union and it is expedient to alter and extend
the boundaries of the parish of Croydon so as to include
within that parish the parish of Addington :
And whereas by the Croydon Corporation Act 1924
the Corporation were authorised to acquire lands for and
to execute the street works referred to in that Act and
it is expedient to extend the time for the acquisition of
such lands:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Cor-
poration to execute the further street works authorised
by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to confer further powers
upon the Corporation with reference to the retention
disposal and development of lands acquired by them
for and in connection with the execution of the street
works authorised by the said Act of 1924 and this Act
but not required for such works :
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of an
electricity undertaking by means of which they supply
electricity within the existing borough and for certain
purposes in the neighbourhood thereof and it is expedient
to make further provision with regard to the electricity
undertaking of the Corporation :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Cor-
poration to erect or acquire concert halls and other
buildings and to confer further powers upon the Corpora-
tion with regard to open spaces :
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 with regard thereto should be
enlarged as is provided in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the provisions
contained in this Act with respect to the carrying on of
trading in the streets of the borough should be made:
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And whereas it is expedient to empower the Cor-
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poration to create and issue a new class oi redeemable —
stock:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the
Corporation for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and
such estimates are as follows:—
The construction of the street works £
authorised by this Act - - 3,000
New mains extensions of mains and
other waterworks purposes - 40,0QQ
And whereas the several works included in such
estimates respectively are permanent works and it is
expedient that the cost thereof should be spread over
a term of years:
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 plans and sections showing the lines
and levels of the street works authorised by 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 the lands required or which may be taken
for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were duly
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of
Surrey and are hereinafter respectively referred to as the
deposited plans sections 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:—
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P»ELIMJNA£Y.
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This Aet may be cited as the Croydon Corporation Short title.
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