Gas Orders Confirmation (No.2) Act 1892
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1892 c. cxcvi |
| Year | 1892 |
[55
&
56
VICT.]
Gccs
Orders
Coitfimtion
(NO.
2)
[Ch.
cxcvi.]
Act,
1892.
CHAPTER
cxcvi.
An
Act
to confirm
certain
Provisional
Orders
made
by
A’’*
---
‘w2*
the
Board
of
Trade
under
the
1870,
relating
to Bideford
Gas,
Glastonbury
and Street
Gas,
Prestatyn
Gas,
and
Willenhall
Gas.
[27th
June
1892.1
HEREAS under the authority
of
the Gas and Water
Works
33
ct
3.1
Vict,
w
Facilities act,
1870,
the Board of Trade have made the
C.
70.
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
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
(No.
2)
ghm
title.
2.
The several Orders
as
amended and set out
in
the schedule
confirmotion
Act,
1892.
to this Act annexed shall be and the same are hereby confirmed
;
of
@dm.
and all the provisions thereof,
in
manner and
€orm
as
they are set
out in the said schedule, shall,
from
and after the passing
of
this
Act, have full validity and effect.
[Price
2s.
3d.l
a
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[Ch.
cxcvi.]
Gas
Orders
Con$rrnatiolz
(No.
2)
[55
&
56
VICT.J
Act,
1892.
A.D.
1892-
3.
The Undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not,
special
pro-
under the powers of this Act,
or
of the said Orders, without the
vision
8s
to
consent
of
the
Local
Government
Board,
purchase
or
acquire in
any
houses
of
labouring
city, borough,
or
other urban sanitary district,,
or
in any parish
or
class.
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, 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 families
of
any
of
such persons who
may be residing with them.
-
SCHEDULE
OF
ORDERS.
~-
BIDEFORD
BAs.-Order empowering the Bideford Gas and Coke Company,
Limited,
to
maintain and continue gasworks, and to manufacture and
supply
gas
in the township, parish, and borough
of
Bideford in the county of
Devon.
GLASTOmURY
AND
STREET
Gas.-Order empowering the Glastonbury
Gas
and
Coke Company, Limited, to maintain and continue gasworks, and to manu-
facture and supply gas in the united parishes
of
St.
John the Baptist and
St.
Benedict, Glastonbury, and the parish of Street, all in the county of
Somerset.
PRESTATYN
GAs.-order authorising the construction and maintenance of
gas-
works
and the manufacture and supply of gas in the parishes of Meliden,
Cwm, Dyserth, and Newmarket, all in the county
of
Flint.
WILLENHALL
Gas.-Order empowering the Willenhall Gas Company to raise
additional capital, to construct and maintain additional works
;
and
for
other
purposes.
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[55
&
56
VICT.]
Gas
Orders
CortJrrnatiolz
(No.
2)
Act,
1892.
[Ch.
cxcvi.]
BIDEFORD
GAS.
A.D.
1892.
RiW0l.d.
-
Order empowering the Bideford Gas and Coke Compcrny Limited
to maintain and continue*Gasworks and to manufacture and
supply Gas
in
the
Towizship Parish and Borough
of
Bidef~rd
in
the County
of
Devon.
Short title.
1.
This Order may be cited as the Bideford Gas Order
1892.
2.
This Order shall come into force and have effect upon the day when the
Commence-
meut
of
Order.
Act confirming this Order is passed which date is in this Order referred to as
(‘
the commencement of this Order.”
3.
’The provisions
of
the Lands Clauses Acts (except with respect to the
r;’y;mtion
purchase and taking
of
lands otherwise than by agreement and with respect to
the entry upon lands by the Promoters of the undertaking) of the Gasworks
Clauses Act
1847
(except sections thirty to thirty-four both inclusive) and
of
are hereby incorporated with this Order except
where t8he same are expressly varied by this Order and the said provisions
of
the said 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 for the purpose of such incorporation section
thirty-five of the said Gasworks Clauses Act
1847
shall be read and construed
as though the words from
‘I
in case the whole
”
down to
(‘
have been paid
”
all
inclusive had been omitted therefroin and as though the expression “‘the pre-
scribed rate
”
included the prescribed rates
as
defined
by
this Order together
with any sum which under the provisions of this Order might lawfully be carried
to the insurance fund.
ditidend authorised by this Order on the capital of the Undertakers or such
rates as reduced or increased in accordance with the provisions of this Order
and the several words terms and expressions to which by any Act in whole or in
part incorporated with this Order and by the Gas and Water Works Facilities
meanings are assigned have the same respective meanings and in the
construction
of
this Order or
of
any such Act for the purposes of this Order the
expression the undertaking
”
shall include the gasworks and works connected
therewith by this Order authorised to be maintained and continued.
have effect (in this Order referred to as
(‘
the limits
of
supply
”)
shall be the
supp’y*
township parish and borough of Bideford in the county
of
Devon.
4.
In this Order the expression
((
th’e prescribed rates
”
means the rates
of
Interpretation.
5.
The limits within which the provisions
of
this Order shall be in force and
Limitt
of
Undertakers.
for the purposes of this Order :and are in this Order referred
to
as
“the
Undertakers.”
6.
The Bideford Gas and Coke Company Limited shall be the Undertakers
Undartakers.
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