Gloucester Extension Act 1950

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Citation1950 c. li
14
GEO.
6
Gloucester
Extension Ch.
M
Acu 1950
CHAPTER li
An Act to extend the boundaries of the city of
Gloucester in the county of the city of Gloucester and
for purposes incidental thereto. [28th July 1950.]
W
HEREAS the city of Gloucester in the county of the city
of Gloucester (hereinafter called " the city ") is a city and
county borough under the government of the mayor
aldermen and citizens thereof (hereinafter called "the Cor-
poration "):
And whereas the city now comprises the parish of Gloucester
such parish being co-extensive with the city:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the local Acts speci-
fied in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act and of the Orders
specified in Part II of that schedule are in force in the city:
And whereas the parishes of Barnwood Brookthorpe Hemp-
:sted Longlevens and Quedgeley in the rural district of Gloucester
are respectively situate in the administrative county of Gloucester
and adjoin and form part of the environs of the city and the
parish of Wotton Vill in the said rural district and administra-
tive county is encompassed by the city:-
And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the boundaries
of the city and of the parish of Gloucester so as to include therein
parts of the said parishes of Barnwood Brookthorpe Hempsted
Longlevens and Quedgeley and the whole of the said parish of
Wotton Vill:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected with-
out the authority of Parliament:
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Ch.li
Gloucester
Extension
Act, 1950 14 GEO. 6
23 & 24 Geo. 5.
c. 51.
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act the requirements of the Local Government Act 1933 have
been observed:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it 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 follows (that is to
say):
Short title.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Gloucester Extension Act
1950.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
requires
" Act of 1894 " " Act of 1929 " and " Act of 1933 " mean
respectively the Local Government Act 1894 the Local
Government Act 1929 and the Local Government Act
1933;
" Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936 ;
56 & 57 Vict.
c. 73.
19 Geo. 5. c. 17.
26 Geo. 5. &
1 Edw. 8. c. 49. a
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added areas " means the added parts of Barn wood Brook
thorpe Hempsted Longlevens and Quedgeley and the-
whole of the parish of Wotton Vill (which parish is.
coloured green on the city map);
added part of Barnwood " " the added part of Brook-
thorpe " " the added part of Hempsted " " the added
part of Longlevens" and " the added part of
Quedgeley " mean respectively the parts of the existing,
parishes of those names which are respectively coloured
brown violet grey pink and yellow on the city map and
are described in the Second Schedule to this Act;
appointed day " means the first day of April nineteen
hundred and fifty-one;
city " means before the appointed day the existing city of
Gloucester in the county of the city of Gloucester and
on and after the appointed day that city as extended
by this Act;
city map " means the map marked " Map of the city of
Gloucester as extended by the Gloucester Extension
Act 1950" and signed in triplicate by the Right
Honourable the Earl of Drogheda the chairman of the
committee of the House of Lords to which the Bill
for this Act was referred one copy of which map has
been deposited in the Parliament Office of the House
of Lords one in the Private Bill Office of the House of
Commons and one with the town clerk at his office ;
Corporation " means the mayor aldermen and citizens of
the city;
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