East Ham Improvement Act 1898
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1898 c. cxxiv |
| Year | 1898 |
[61 & 62 VICT.] East Sam
Improvement
Act, 1898. [Ch. cxxiv.]
CHAPTER cxxiv.
An Act to confer further powers upon the Urban District A.IU898.
Council for the District of East Ham in the County of
Essex. [25th July 1898.]
W
HEREAS the district of East Ham in the county of Essex
is
an
urban district within the meaning of the Local Government
Act 1894 and is under the management of the East Ham Urban
District Council:
And whereas the population of the district has more than
sextupled during the last twenty years and owing to its proximity
to the metropolis is increasing at a rapid rate :
And whereas there are extensive docks and chemical works within
the district and a large number of factories workshops and other
places of employment immediately surrounding it:
And whereas it is expedient that better provision should be made
with reference to streets and buildings within the district and
that the powers of the Council in relation to the health the
local government and the improvement of the district should be
enlarged:
And whereas it is expedient that the Council should
be
empowered
to work any tramways within the district belonging to them by
mechanical or other traction :
And whereas there is within the district a quantity of roadside
waste and doubts exist with regard to the rights in or affecting the
same and it is expedient in the interests of the inhabitants of the
district and with a view to the avoidance of litigation that provision
should be made for vesting all public rights over certain portions of
such roadside waste in the Council:
And whereas the district is supplied with water by the East
London Water Company and it is desirable that for purposes of
public health and for extinction of fires the Council should be the
metropolitan authority for the "purposes of the Metropolis "Water
Acts 1852 and 1871:
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Improvement
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1898.
And whereas it is expedient that special provisions should be
conferred upon the Council to enable them to deal with indecent
shows and to prevent betting:
And whereas it is desirable that the Council should be empowered
to borrow money for the purchase of land for and the erection of a
town hall and public offices and for the purchase and improvement
of the tramways aforesaid and estimates have been prepared by the
Council for and incidental to these purposes and they amount to
the sum following (that is to say):—
For the purchase of land and erection of a town hall
and other buildings - - ' - - £60,000
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
Council at a meeting held on the second day of November 1897
after ten clear days' notice by public advertisement of such meeting
and of the purposes thereof in the East Ham Echo a local newspaper
published and circulating in the district (such notice being in
addition to the ordinary notices required for summoning such
meeting) resolved that the expense in relation to promoting the Bill
for this Act should be charged upon the general district rate:
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the said
newspaper and has received the approval of the Local Government
Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number
of the Council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the eighteenth day of January 1898 being not
less than fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the district by
resolution in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this Act:
May it therefore please Tour 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):—
PBELIMINAEY.
Short
title.
!• This Act may be cited for all purposes as the East Ham
Improvement Act 1898.
Incorpora- 2. The provisions of section 3 (Interpretation of terms)
tion of
Acts,
section 19 (Power to lease or take tolls) and Parts II. and III. of
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[61 & 62 VICT.] East Ham
Improvement
Act, 1898. [Ch. CXXiv.]
the Tramways Act 1870 so far as the same are applicable for the
A.D.
1898.
purposes of and not varied by or inconsistent with this Act are
hereby incorporated with this Act.
3.
In construing this Act the following words and expressions Interpreta-
have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively unless tloa'
there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction (that is to say):—
" The district" means the urban district of Bast Ham in the
county of Essex:
" The Council" means the urban district council of the district:
"The clerk" "the surveyor" "the treasurer" "the medical
officer of health" " the inspector of nuisances" mean
respectively the clerk the surveyor the treasurer the medical
officer of health and any inspector of nuisances for the district
and " office " in relation to any of the said officers means the
office of such officer at the district council office or town hall
or at such other place as the Council may appoint:
"Mechanical power" includes steam electric and every other
motive power:
" Engine " includes motor :
" Structure" means any building wall bridge (except county
bridges) fence railing balcony hoarding scaffold platform stack
of bricks or of timber pier pillar post door gate or other
such erection construction or thing but shall not include any
telegraphic or telephonic standard posts or other apparatus:
" Ground floor " used with reference to any building means that
floor thereof the upper surface of which is nearest to the level
of the street or ground adjoining the principal or only entrance
to such building:
"Infectious disease" means and includes any infectious disease
to which the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889 for the
time being applies within the district:
" Sky sign" means any word letter model sign device or
representation in the nature of an advertisement announcement
or direction supported on or attached to any post pole standard
framework or other support wholly or in part upon over or
above any house or building which or any part of which sky
sign shall be visible against the sky from any point in any
street or public way and includes all and every part of any
such post pole standard framework or other support The
expression " sky sign " shall also include any balloon parachute
or similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes
of any advertisement or announcement on over or above any
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