Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1887

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1887 c. cxxv
[50 & 51 VICT.] Gas Orders Confirmation Act, 1887. [Oh. CXXV.]
CHAPTER cxxv.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the
A.D.
1887
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works
Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Bedford Gas, Long
Melford Gas, Musselburgh Gas, Penmaenmawr Gas, and
Portsea Gas. [19th July 1887.]
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 Pacilities Act,
1870,
is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirma-
tion 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, Short title.
1887.
2.
The several Orders as set out in the schedule to this Act shall Confirmation
he and the same are hereby confirmed; and all the provisions ^£^™iu
thereof,
in manner and form as they are set out in the said sche-
dule,
shall, from and after the passing of this Act, have full
validity and effect.
Schedule.
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[0h. CXXV.J &mOrders OonprnaUim *Act}l8&I. [50&51VICT.]
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1887. 3. The Undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not,
" under the powers of this Act or of the said Orders, without the
provisions consent of the Local Government Board in England, or of the
as
to houses Secretary for Scotland in Scotland, purchase or acquire in any city,
class.
ouriDg borough, or other urban sanitary district, or in any parish or part
of a parish not being within an urban sanitary district in England,
or in Scotland in any district within the meaning of the Public
Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, 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,
Eor 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.
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