Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. cxxiv |
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5.] Gas Orders
Confirmation
[Ch. CXXiv.]
Act, 1913.
CHAPTER cxxiv.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by A.D. 1913.
the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works
Facilities Act 1870 relating to Kibworth Gas Midsomer
Norton Gas Redditch Gas and West Staffordshire Gas.
[15th August 1913.]
W
HEEEAS under the authority of the Gas and Water Works
33 &
34 Vict.
Facilities Act 1870 the Board of Trade have made the c-7o-
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 said Act is not of any
validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act
of Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient that the Provisional Orders
made by the Board of Trade as aforesaid and set out in the
schedule to this Act be confirmed by Act of Parliament:
Be it therefore 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:—
1.
This Act may be cited as the Gas Orders Confirmation Short title.
Act 1913.
2.
The Orders as amended and set out in the schedule to Confirmation
of Orders
schedule.
this Act shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and of 0rders m
the provisions thereof 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.
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SCHEDULE.
LIST OF ORDERS.
KIBWORTH GAS.—Order authorising the maintenance -and continuance
of existing gasworks and works connected therewith and the
manufacture and supply of gas in the parishes of Kibworth
Beauchamp Kibworth Harcourt Smeeton Westerby Fleckney and
Saddington in the rural district of Market Harborough all in the
county of Leicester.
MIDSOMER NORTON GAS.—Order empowering the Midsomer Norton Gas
and Coke Company Limited to construct additional gasworks to raise
additional capital and. for other purposes.
REDDITCH GAS.—Order empowering the Redditch Gas Company to
construct further works for the manufacture and storage of gas
and to raise additional capital and for other purposes.
WEST
STAFFORDSHIRE GAB.—Order authorising the maintenance and
continuance of gasworks and the manufacture and supply of gas
in the parishes of Brewood Lapley and Wheaton Aston Stretton
Church Eaton Gnosall and Haughton and part of the parish of
Blymhill all in the county of Stafford and for other purposes.
A.D.
1913.
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Act, 1913.
KIBWOETH GAS. A.D. 1913.
Order authorising the mamtencmce and continuance of existing Kibworth.
Gasworks and Works connected therewith and the
manufacture and supply of Gas in the Parishes of Kibworth
Beauchamp Kibworth Sarcourt Smeeton Westerby
Fleckney and Saddmgton in the Mural District of Market
Harborough all in the County of Leicester.
Preliminary.
1.
This Order may be cited as the Kibworth Gas Order 1913. Short title.
2.
This Order shall come into force and have effect upon the day Commence-
when the Act confirming this Order is passed which date is in this me?
Order referred to as " the commencement of this Order."
3.
The provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts (except with respect Incorpora-
to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement and tl0nof Acts-
with respect to the entry upon lands by the promoters of the undertaking)
of the Gasworks Clauses Act 1847 (except sections 31 to 34) and of
the Gasworks Clauses Act 1871 are hereby incorporated with this Order
except so far as the same are expressly varied by or. are inconsistent
with the provisions hereof and the said provisions of the Gasworks
Clauses Acts shall apply as well to the mains pipes and works of the
Undertakers laid down or constructed before the commencement of this
Order and situate within the limits of supply as defined by this Order
as to any mains pipes or works which may be laid down or constructed
under the authority of this Order:
Provided that section 13 of the Gasworks Clauses Act 1847 shall
be read as if the words " or any premises" were inserted after the
words "private building "and as if the words "Provided also that every
such contract entered into by the Undertakers shall be alike in terms
and amount under like circumstances to all consumers " were added at
the end of that section and also that section 35 of such Act shall be
read and construed as if the words from "in case the whole" down
to the words "have been paid " were omitted therefrom and as though
the expression " the prescribed rate" included the authorised rates as
defined by this Order together with any sum which under the provisions
of this Order may lawfully be carried to the special purposes fund.
4.
In this Order the several words terms and expressions to which hiterpreta-
by any Act in whole or in part incorporated with this Order and by tl0n-
the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 meanings are assigned
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