Exeter Corporation Act 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1971 c. lxv |
| Year | 1971 |
Exeter Corporation
Act
1971
c. lxv 1
ELIZABETH H
1971 CHAPTER lxv
An Act to empower the mayor, aldermen and citizens
of the city of Exeter to discontinue and abandon the
ferry in the city across the river Exe commonly known
as the Quay Ferry; to make further provision with
regard to the improvement, health, local government
and finances of the city; and for other purposes.
[5th August 1971]
1T7HEREAS—
(1) The city and county of the city of Exeter (hereinafter
referred to as " the city ") is a county borough under the manage-
ment of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city (hereinafter
referred to as " the Corporation "):
(2) It is expedient to empower the Corporation to discontinue
and abandon the ferry in the city across the river Exe commonly
known as the Quay Ferry.
(3) It is expedient to make further provision with reference to
the improvement, health, local government and finances of the
city and that the powers of the Corporation in relation thereto
should be enlarged and extended:
(4) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
2 c. Ixv Exeter
Corporation
Act
1971
1933 c. 51.
(5) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(6) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
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 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:—
Short
and
collective
titles.
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Exeter Corporation
Act 1971.
(2) The Exeter Corporation Acts 1820 to 1966 and this Act
may be cited together as the Exeter Corporation Acts
1820
to
1971.
Division
of
Act
into
Parts.
inferoretation.
1936 c. 49.
1882 c. 56.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Highways.
Part III.—Hackney carriages, etc.
Part IV.—Finance.
Part V.—Miscellaneous.
Part VI.—General.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions to
which
meanings are assigned by sections 90 and 343 of
the
Act of
1936
have the same respective meanings, unless there be something
in
the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
(2) In this Act, unless otherwise expressly provided or the
subject or context otherwise requires—
" the Act of
1933
" means the Local Government Act 1933;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" apparatus" means-
Co) in relation to the generating board and the
electricity board any electric line or
works,
as respec-
tively defined in the Electric Lighting Act im,
belonging to or maintained by the generating boaru
or the electricity board; and
Exeter
Corporation
Act
1971
c. lxv 3
(b) in relation to the Gas Council and the gas board
PART
I
mains, pipes or other apparatus belonging to the —com.
Gas Council or the gas board;
and includes any works constructed for the lodging
therein of apparatus;
"the appointed day" has the meaning assigned to it by
section
41
(The appointed day) of this Act;
" the city " means the city and county of the city of Exeter;
"contravention" includes a failure to comply and
" contravene " shall be construed accordingly;
" the Corporation " means the mayor, aldermen and citizens
of
the
city acting by the council;
" the council" means the council of the city;
" daily fine " means a fine for each day on which an offence
is continued after conviction;
" the electricity board " means the South Western Electricity
Board;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act and in any
general or local Act, and any order, byelaw or regulation
for the time being in force within the city;
" the gas board " means the South Western Gas Board;
"the generating board" means the Central Electricity
Generating Board;
"magistrates' court" has the same meaning as in sub-
section (1) of section 124 of the Magistrates' Courts
Act 1952;
1952
c.
55.
"operational land" in relation to the generating board,
the electricity board, the Gas Council or the gas board
means land which is used for the purpose of
the
carrying
on of their undertaking and land in which an interest
is held for that purpose, not being land which in respect
of its nature and situation is comparable rather with
land in general than with land which is used, or in which
interests are held, for the purpose of the carrying on of
statutory undertakings;
" the town clerk " means the town clerk of the city.
(3)
Any
reference in this Act to any enactnient
shall be
construed
as a reference to that enactment
as.
applied,, extended, amended or
varied by or by virtue ©f any subsequent enactment, including
this Act.
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