Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1895
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1895 c. i |
| Year | 1895 |
[ffiTim.*] Gas Orders Confirmation Act, 1895,Session 2. [Oh. i.]
CHAPTER i.
An Act to confirm certain
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Provisional Orders made by
A.D.
1895.
the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works "'
Facilities Act 1870 relating to Barnstaple Gas Bognor
Gas Felixstowe Gas and Kildwick Parish Gas.
[5th September 1895.]
W
HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and "Water Works
Facilities Act 1870 the Board of Trade have made the several
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
1895,
Session 2.
2.
The several Orders as amended and set out in the schedule to
this Act shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and all 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.
3.
The Undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not under
the powers of this Act or of the said Orders purchase or acquire
in any city borough or other urban district or in any parish
or part of a parish not being within an urban district ten or
more houses which on the fifteenth, day of December last were
[Price Is. 9d.] A 1
33 & 34 Vict.
c. 70.
Short title.
Confirmation
of Orders in
schedule.
Special pro
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visions as to
houses of t!:r
labouring
class.
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A.D. 1895.
occupied either wholly or partially by persons belonging to the
labouring class as tenants or loggers or except with the consent
of the Local Government Board teti: or more houses which were not
so occupied on the said fifteenth day of December but have been
or shall be subsequently so occupied.
For the purposes of this section the expression "labouring class"
includes mechanics artisans 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 f ajmlies of any. of .such persons who
may be residing with them.
SCHEDULE OE ORDERS.
BARNSTAPLE
GAS.—Order
empowering the Barnstaple Gas Company to raise
additional capital.
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BOGNOR
GAS.—Order
empowering the Bognor Gaslight and Coke Company
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Limited to construct additional works for the manufacture and storage of
gas and for other purposes.
FELIXSTOWE
GAS.—Order
empowering the Felixstowe Gaslight Company
Limited to maintain and continue gasworks and to manufacture and
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supply gas in the parishes of Walton and Felixstowe in the county of
Suffolk.
KILDWICK
PARISH
GAS.—Order
empowering the Kildwick Parish Gas Company
to raise additional capital
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