Derby Corporation Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. xcii |
| Year | 1913 |
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Derby
Corporation
Act, 1913. [Oh. XCiL]
CHAPTER xcii.
An Act to authorise the major aldermen and burgesses
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of the borough of Derbj to construct tramways and
street works to make further provision in regard to
their tramway water electricity and markets undertakings
and the health local government and improvement of
the borough to enable them to establish a fund for the
granting of superannuation allowances to their officers
and servants to provide for -the simplification of the
procedure in the Derby Borough Court of Record and
for other purposes. [15th August 1913.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Derby is a municipal and county
borough under the management and local government of
the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough acting by the
council (in this Act called " the Corporation "):
And whereas in pursuance of powers conferred upon them
by the Derby Corporation Tramways &c. Act 1899 and the
Derby Corporation Act 1901 the Corporation have acquired and
constructed and are working an extensive system of tramways
in the borough and it is expedient to empower them to construct
and work the additional tramways referred to in this Act and
to confer further powers upon them in connexion with their
tramway undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
construct the street works referred to in this Act and to acquire
lands for and in connexion with the construction of those works
and to extend their fire brigade station in Lower St. Mary's Gate:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of waterworks
and are supplying water within the borough and certain districts
in the neighbourhood thereof and it is expedient to increase the
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[Oh. XCii.] Derby Corporation Act, 1913. [3 & 4
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1913. rates and charges which the Corporation are authorised to
demand and take under the provisions of the Act 11 & 12 Vict.
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xxxvi and the Derby Improvement Act 1879 and to confer
further powers upon the Corporation in relation to their water
undertaking:
And whereas under the provisions of the Derby Corporation
Electric Lighting Orders 1890 and 1910 the Corporation are the
owners of an electricity undertaking whereby the borough and
certain districts in the neighbourhood thereof are supplied with
electricity and it is expedient to confer further powers upon the
Corporation in relation to that undertaking:
And whereas the Corporation under the authority of a
charter dated at Westminster the fifth day of September in the
thirty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Charles II.
and of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late
Majesty King George IV. cap. cxxxii provided a cattle market
and a market hall and other places for holding markets and
fairs and further powers in relation to their markets undertaking
were conferred upon the Corporation by the Derby Corporation
Act 1877 and it is expedient to make further provision in regard
to that undertaking:
And whereas by the Derby Corporation Act 1901 as amended
by the Derby Order 1905 (confirmed by the Local Government
Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 4) Act 1905) the
Corporation were empowered to make extensive works for the
sewerage of an area comprising the borough and parts of the
parishes of Alvaston and Boulton Osmaston and Normanton (in
the said Act of 1901 and herein-after referred to as "the main
drainage area") and it is expedient to make further provision
with regard to the sewerage of that area:
And whereas it is expedient to make further and better
provision with regard to the streets and buildings in the borough
and that the powers of the Corporation in regard to the health
local government and improvement of the borough be enlarged
as in this Act provided :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation
to establish a fund for the granting of superannuation and other
allowances to officers and servants of the Corporation:
And whereas it is expedient to make provision for altering
the procedure in the Derby Borough Court of Record:
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And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
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tained in this Act be enacted: '
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot l>e effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Corpo-
ration for the purposes herein-after mentioned and such estimates
are as follows:—
(A)
For and in connexion with the construction £
of the tramways authorised by this Act - 21350
(B)
For the provision and erection of posts
standards brackets conductors and other
apparatus works and conveniences for the
purpose of the tramways authorised by
this Act - - - - - 5100
(c) For the provision and equipment of omni-
buses - 5000
"(D)
For the purchase of lands for and for and in
connexion with the construction of the
street works authorised by this Act - 49000
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 the approval of the Local Govern-
ment Board has been obtained :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works authorised by this Act and 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 Derby and are in this Act 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
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