Gas Orders Confirmation (No.1) Act 1897

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1897 c. cliv
Year1897
£60 & 61 VICT.] Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [Ch. cliv.]
Act, 1897.
CHAPTER cliv.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by
A.D.
1897.
the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works
Facilities Act 1870 relating to Hoy lake and West
Kirby Gas Killamarsh Gas Sedbergh Gas and
Westbury Gas. [6th August 1897.]
W
HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and "Water Works
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Facilities Act 1870 the Board of Trade have made the several c-
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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 (No. 1) Short title.
Act 1897.
2.
The several Orders as set out in the schedule to this Confirmation
Act annexed shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and °che^u^' m
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 Special pro-
the powers of this Act or of the said Orders purchase or acquire i™™^t0
in any city borough or urban district or in any parish or labouring
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Act, 1897.
A.D.
1897. part of a parish not being within an urban district ten or
more houses which on the fifteenth day of December last were
occupied either wholly or partially by persons belonging to the
labouring class as tenants or lodgers or except with the consent
of the Local Government Board ten 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 families of such persons who are
residing with them.
SCHEDULE.
LIST OF ORDERS.
HOYLAKE
AND
WEST
KIRBY- GAS.—Order empowering the Hoylake and West
Kirby Gas and Water Company Limited to raise additional Capital for the
purposes of their Gas Undertaking.
KILLAMABSH
GAS.—Order empowering the Killamarsh Gas Light and Coke
Company Limited to construct and maintain Gasworks and to make and
supply Gas within the parish of Killamarsh in the county of Derby.
SEDBERGH
GAS.—Order empowering the Sedbergh New Gas Company
Limited to maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture and supply
Gas in the township of Sedbergh in the parish of Sedbergh in the west
riding of the county of York.
WESTBURY
GAP.—Order empowering the Westbury Gas and Coke Company
Limited to maintain and continue Gasworks to construct and maintain
additional Works to purchase additional Lands and
to
manufacture and supply
Gas -within the parishes of Westbury Upton Scudamore Diiton Marsh
Bratton Edington and Hey wood-cum-Hawkeridge in the county of Wilts.
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