Gas Orders Confirmation (No.1) Act 1892
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1892 c. lxvi |
| Year | 1892 |
[55 & 56 VICT.] Gas Orders
Confirmation
(#b. 1) [Ch.. lxvi.l
Act, 1892,
CHAPTER lxvi.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Aj). 1892.
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities
Act, 1870, relating to Cullingworth Gas, Kempston Gas,
Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas, South Normanton
and Blackwell Gas, and Sutton and Hooton District
Gas.
[20th June 1892.]
W
HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and Water Works
33 & 34
Vict.
Facilities Act,
1870,
the Board of Trade have made the several 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 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:
And whereas the limits of supply as defined by the Cullingworth
Gas Order, 1892, hereby confirmed, include a portion of the area
within which the Commissioners as defined by the Bingley Extension
30 & 31
Vict.
and Improvement Act,' 1867, were by the said Act authorised to c- 88-
supply gas, and a portion of the area within which the Clayton,
Allerton, and Thornton Gas Company were by the Clayton, Allerton,
27 & 28
Vict.
and Thornton Gas Act, 1864, authorised to supply gas; and it has
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30'
been agreed between the said Commissioners and the Undertakers
for the purposes of the said Order and between the said Company
and the said Undertakers respectively, that the said Undertakers
shall be authorised to supply gas within the said portions, and that
so much of the said Acts as authorises the said Commissioners and
the said Company respectively to supply gas within any such
portion as aforesaid shall be repealed:
[Price
2s, 6d.] A I
A.D.
1892.
27
&
28 Vict.
c. 38.
Short
title.
Confirmation
of
Orders.
Special
pro-
visions
as to
houses
of
labouring
class.
Partial
repeal
of
30&31
Vict.
c. Ixxx'viii.;
27
&
28 Vict.
c. xxx.; and
27
& 28
Vict.
c. xxxviii.
[Oh. lxvi.] Gas Orders
Confirmation
(No. 1) [55 & 56 YICT.]
Act, 1892.
And whereas the limits of supply as defined by the Kempston
Gas Order, 1892, hereby confirmed, include a portion of the area
within which the Bedford Gas Light Company were by the Bedford
Gas Act, 1864, authorised to supply gas, but the said Company
have not in fact supplied gas within the portion aforesaid, and it
has been agreed between the said Company and the Undertakers
for the purposes of the said Order that the said Undertakers shall
be authorised by the said Order to supply gas therein, and that so
much of the said Act as authorises the said Company to supply gas
therein shall be repealed:
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. 1)
Act, 1892.
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, without the consent
of the Local Government Board, purchase or acquire in any city,
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 such persons who
may be residing with them.
4.
So much of the Bingley Extension and Improvement Act,
1867,
and of the Clayton, Allerton, and Thornton Gas Act, 1864,
as authorises the Commissioners as defined by the said first
mentioned Act and the Clayton, Allerton, and Thornton
Gas
Company
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-[55 & 56 VICT.] Gas Orders Confirmation {No. 1) [Ch. lxvl]
Act, 1892.
respectively to supply gas within any parishes or parts of parishes
^°-1892.
in the West Biding of the County of York which are included
within the limits of supply as defined by the Cullingworth G-as
Order, 1892, hereby confirmed, and so much of the Bedford Gas
Act, 1864, as authorises the Bedford Gas Light Company to supply
gas within any parishes or parts of parishes in the county of
Bedford which are included within the limits of supply as defined
by the Kempston Gas Order, 1892, hereby confirmed, are hereby
repealed, and from and after the passing of this Act all the powers
of the said Commissioners and Companies with reference to the
supply of gas within any such parishes or parts of parishes as
aforesaid shall absolutely cease and determine, and the said Orders
shall have as full validity and effect as though such parishes or
parts of parishes had never been included within the limits within
which the said Commissioners or either of the said Companies were
by any of the said Acts authorised to supply gas.
SCHEDULE OF ORDERS.
CULLINGWORTH
GAS.—Order empowering the Cullingworth Gas Company,
Limited, to maintain and continue gasworks and to manufacture and
supply gas in the township and parish of Bingley and the township of
Wilsden, in the parish of Bradford, all in the West Riding of the county
of York.
KEMPSTON
GAS.—Order empowering the Kempston Gas Company. Limited, to
maintain and continue gasworks and to manufacture and supply gas in the
several parishes of Kempston, Elstow, and Wooton, all in the county of
Bedford.
MITCHAM
AND WIMBLEDON DISTRICT GAS.—Order empowering the Mitcham
and Wimbledon District Gaslight Company to construct and maintain
additional works.
SOUTH
NORMANTON AND BLACKWELL GAS.—Order empowering the South
Normanton, Blackwell, and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite Gas Company,
Limited, to maintain and continue .gasworks and to manufacture and
supply gas within the parish of Blackwell and parts of the parishes of
South Normanton and
Tibshelf,
all in the county of Derby.
SUTTON
AND HOOTON DISTRICT GAS.—Order empowering the Sutton and
Hooton Gas Company, Limited, to maintain and continue gasworks and to
manufacture and supply gas in the townships of Willaston, Hooton, Cbilder
Thornton, Great Sutton, Little Sutton, Ledsham, and -Capenhurst, all in
the county of Chester.
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