Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1889
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[52 & 53 VICT.] Gas Orders
Confirmation
Act, 1889. [Ch. hriv ]
CHAPTER lxiv.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the
A.D.
1889.
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities "
Act, 1870, relating to Buckley Gas, Market Basen Gas,
Melton Mowbray Gas, Bomford Gas, and Warminster
Gas.
[9th July 1889.]
W
HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and "Water Works 33&34Yict.
Facilities Act,
1870,
the Board of Trade have made the several c' 70*
Provisional Orders set out in the schedule to this Act annexed :
And whereas a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade
under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act,
1870,
is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation
thereof by Act of Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders
made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the said Act,
and set out in the schedule to this Act annexed, be confirmed by
Act of Parliament:
Be it therefore 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 :
1.
This Act may be cited as the Gas Orders Confirmation Act, gnort
titie
1889.
2.
The several Orders set out in the schedule to this Act shall be Confirmation
and the same are hereby confirmed; and all the provisions
thereof,
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h^eers m
in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule, shall,
from and after the passing of this Act, have full validity and
effect.
3.
The undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not, under Special pro-
the powers of this Act or of the said Orders, without the consent of "S10n
as„t0
r ... houses ot
the Local Government Board, purchase or acquire m any city, labouring
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[Oh. lxiv.] Gas Orders Confirmation Act, 1889. [52 & 53 VICT.]
A.D.
1889.
borough, or other urban sanitary district, or in any parish or part
of a parish not being within an urban sanitary district, ten or more
houses which after the passing of this Act have been, or on the
fifteenth day of December last were, occupied either wholly or
partially by persons belonging to the labouring class as tenants or
lodgers.
For the purposes of this section the expression " labouring class "
includes mechanics, artizans, labourers, and others working for
wages, hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages but
working at some trade or handicraft without employing others
except members of their own family, and persons, other than
domestic servants, whose income does not exceed an average of
thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons
•who may be residing with them.
SCHEDULE OP OEDEES.
BUCKLEY
GAS.—Order empowering the Buckley Gas Company (Limited) to
construct and maintain gasworks, and to make and supply gas, within
parts of the parishes of Mold and Hawarden, both in the county of Flint,
MARKET
RASEX GAS.—Order empowering the Market Rasen New Lighting
Company (Limited) to maintain and continue gasworks, and to manufacture
and supply gas, within the parish of Market Rasen and parts of the parish
of Middle Rasen, both in the county of Lincoln.
MELTON
MOWBEAY GAS.—Order empowering the Melton Mowbray Gaslight
and Coke Company (Limited) to maintain and continue gasworks, and to
make and supply gas, within the parishes of Melton Mowbray and Thorpe
Arnold, both in the county of Leicester.
ROMFORD
GAS.—Order empowering the Romford Gas and Coke Company
(Limited) to construct and maintain additional works and to raise additional
capital.
WARMINSTER
GAS—Order empowering the Warminster Gas and Coke Company to
maintain and continue gasworks, and to manufacture and supply gas, within
the parishes of Warminster and Bishopstrow, both in the county of Wilts.
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& 53
VICT.]
Gas Orders
Confirmation
Act, 1889. [Oh. lxiv.]
A.D.
1889.
BUCKLEY
GAS. —
Buckley
Order empowering
the Buckley Gas
Company
Limited to
construct
Gas-
and
maintain
Gasworks
and to make and supply
Gas toithin
parts
of the Parishes of Mold and Eawarden, both in the
County of
Flint.
1.
This Order may be cited as the Buckley Gas Order, 1889. Short title.
2.
This Order shall come into force and have effect upon the day when the Commence-
Act confirming this Order is passed, which date is in this Order referred to as ment of 0rder-
the " commencement of this Order."
3.
The provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts (except with respect to the pur- Incorporation
chase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, and with respect to the of Acts'
entry upon lands by the Promoters of the undertaking) of the Gasworks Clauses
Act, 1847, and of the Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871, are hereby incorporated with
this Order, except where the same are expressly varied by this Order.
4.
The several
words,
terms, and expression which by any Act in whole or in Interpretation.
part incorporated with this Order, and by the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act,
1870,
meanings are assigned, have in this Order the same respective meanings.
5.
The limits within which the provisions of this Order shall be in force and Limits of
have effect (in this Order referred to as " the limits of supply") shall be so 0rder-
much of the townships or places of Bistre and Argoed, both in the parish of
Mold, and of the townships or places of Ewloe Wood, Ewloe Town, Pentrobin
andBannel, all in the parish of Hawarden, as lies within a distance of one mile
and a half from the junction of Church,Road, in the said township of Bistre, with
the Chester and Mold main highway, all in the county of Flint.
Undertakers.
6. The Buckley Gas Company (Limited) shall be the Undertakers for the Undertakers.
purposes of this Order, and are in this Order referred to as "the Under-
takers."
Capital.
7.
The
share
capital of the Undertakers shall not for the purposes of the gas Capital.
undertaking exceed five thousand pounds, unless the Undertakers are hereafter
authorised
to
raise for such purposes additional share capital by Provisional Order
under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, or by Act of Parliament.
8. The Undertakers shall not in any year declare or make out of their profits
Limit of
any larger dividends on the said capital than ten pounds in respect of every one ^^d on
hundred pounds actually paid up of so much of such capital as may be issued as
ordinary capital, or six pounds in respect of every one hundred pounds actually
paid up of so much of such capital as may be issued as preference capital.
9. The amount of all moneys borrowed by the Undertakers and secured by Limit
of
bor-
mortgage of the gas undertaking shall not at any time exceed in the whole one
rowing
powers.
fourth of the nominal value of their paid-up capital for the time being, and no
higher rate of interest than five pounds per centum per annum shall be paid
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