Gas Orders Confirmation (No.1) Act 1903
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1903 c. cxxxii |
| Year | 1903 |
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Act,
1903.
CHAPTER
cxxxii.
hi
Act
to
coilfirin
certain Provisional
Orders
iiiacle
by
A.D.
1903.
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the
Eottrd
of
Trade
~uiiclcr
the
Gas
arid
Water
llrorks
Facilities
Act
1SiO
relating
to
Cobharii
Gas
Coiiisbrougli
Gas
Hailshaiii
Gas
St.
Ives
(Hunts)
Gas
md
IYokiiig
District
Gas.
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ALI~LIS~
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HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and Water
Works
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Vict.
w
Facilities Act
1870
the Board of Trade have made the
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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 said Act
is
not of any validity
or
force
whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act of Parliament
:
And whereas
it
is
expedient that the Provisional Orders made
by the Board of Trade
as
aforesaid and
set
out in the schedule to
this Act be confirmed by Act of Parliament
:
Be
it
therefore enacted by the King’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
fcllows
:--
1.
This Act may be cited as the
Gas
Orders Confirmation
Short
title.
2.
The Orders
as
set out in the schedule
to
this Act shall be
Confirmation
of
Orders
in
(No.
1)
Act
1903.
and the same are hereby confirmed and all the provisions thereof
sclledule.
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 named
in
the said Orders shall not
Specialpro-
nnder
the
powers of this Act
or
of the said Orders pnrchase
or
,ollousex
acquire
in
any city
borough
or
urban district
or
in any parish
or
of
labouring
part
of
a
parish not within an urban district ten
or
more houses
visions
as
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Orders
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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 wit'h the consent of the Local Govern-
ment 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
If
the Undertakers purchase
or
acquire
any house under the powers of this Act
or
the said Orders in
contravention of the foregoing provisions they shall be liable to
a
penalty
of
five hundred pounds
in
respect of every such house
which penalty shall be recoverable by the Local Government
Board by action in the High Court and shall be carried to and form
part
of
the Consolidated Fund
of
the United Kingdom Provided
that the court may reduce such penalty.
For the purposes
of
this section the expression
''
labouring
class
"
means 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 thirty
shillings
a
week and the families of any such persons who may be
residing with them The eypression
"
house
'I
means any tenement
separately occupied by any person or persons.
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S
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D
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E.
LIST
OF
ORDERS.
COBHAM
GAs.-order
empowering
the
Cobhain
Gas
Company to
raise
additional vapital
and
for
other
purposes.
CONISBRODGH
GAs.-Order
qnpov
ering the Conisbrough
Gas
Company
Limited to maintain construct
and
continue gasworks
and to
manufacture
and supply
gas
within part
of
the township and parish
of'
Conisbrough in
the West Riding
of
the county
of
York.
HAILSUM
GAS.-Order
empowering
the Hailsham
Gas
Company
to
maintain
and continue their existing
gaswoi
ks
to construct further
works
and
to
supply
gas
in the parish
of
Hailsliam
in
the county
of
Sussex and
for
other purposes.
ST.
IVES
(HUNTS)
GAS.-ckder
empowering the
St.
Ives
(Hunts)
Gas
Company Limited to raise additional capital.
WOKING DISTRICT
GAs.-order amending the provisions of the
Waking
District Gas Order
1901
with regard
to
the distribution
of
revenues
applicable to dividend.
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Act,
1903.
[Ch.
cxxxii.]
COB1I.ARI GAS.
A.D.
1903.
Order empowering the
Cobham
Gas
Cornpuny
to
raise
additionui
Cobham
Gas.
capital
and.
for
other
purposes.
Preliminary .
1. This Order may be cited
as
the Cobham
Gas
Order 1903.
Short
title.
2.
This Order shall come into force and have effect upon the day when the
Commence-
ment
of
Order.
Act confirming this Order
is
passed which tlate
is
in
this
Order referred to as
“
the commencement
of
this Order.”
of
1899
”)
as amended by this Order and this Order shall be construed together
except
so
far
as such construction
would
be inconsistent with
or
repugnant
to
the provisions
of
this Order.
f‘or the purposes and are not inconsistent with the provisions
of
this Order are
incorporated with and form part of this Order (that is to say)
:-
The provisions
of
the Companies Clauses Acts 1845 to 1889 with respect
3.
The
Cobliam
Gas
Act
1899
(in this Order referred to as “the Act
Construction
of
Order.
4. The following Acts and parts of Acts
so
far as the same are applicable
Incorporation
of
Acts.
to the following matters
:-
The distribution of the capital
of
the Company into shares
;
The transfer or transmission
of
shares
;
The payment of subscriptions and the means of enforcing the
The forfeitiire of shares
f‘or
non-payment
of’
calls
;
The remedies of creditors
oC
the Company against the shareholderb
;
The borrowing of money
by
the Company on mortgage
or
bond
;
The consolidation of the shares into stock
;
The general meetings of the Company and the exercise of the
The making of dividends
;
The giving
oi
notices
;
and
The provisioii to be made for affording access to the special Act
by all parties interested
:
And Part
I.
(relating to tlie cancellation and surrender of shares)
Part
11.
(relatilig
to
additional capital) and Part
111.
(relating
to
debenture stock)
of
the Companies Clauses Act 1863 and the Conipanies
Clauses Act 1869
and
the Gasworks Clauses Acts 1847 and 1871.
respective meanings and the term
“
Company
”
shall mean the Undertakers.
payment
of
calls
;
right
of
voting by the shareholders
;
5. The several words terms and expressions to which by any Act
in
Interpretation.
Uxdertaken.
6.
The
Cobham Gas Company shall be the Undertakers for the purposes
Undertakers.
of this Order and are
in
this Order referred to
as
‘‘
the Undertakers.”
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