Gloucestershire County Council Act 1956
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1956 c. xl |
| Year | 1956 |
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Gloucestershire
County Council
Qu ri
Act, 1956
CHAPTER xl
An Act to empower the Gloucestershire County Council
to demolish the concert hall forming part of the shire
hall of the county and to use the space thereof for
building purposes to confer further powers on the
Gloucestershire County Council and local authorities
in the county of Gloucester in relation to lands and
highways and the local government improvement health
and finances of the county to enact provisions with
respect to hairdressers' and barbers' premises and
public entertainments to make further provision for
the superannuation of employees and for other
purposes. [28th March 1956.]
I^THEREAS—
(1)
By an Act of
Parliament passed
in the
year eighteen
hundred and fourteen and intituled
"
An Act
for
erecting
a
Shire
Hall
and
Courts
for the
Administration
of
Justice,
and
other
buildings
for
public Purposes
for the
County
of
Gloucester and
County
of
the City
of
Gloucester
"
(hereinafter called
"
the
Act
of 1814 ")
the
justices
of the
peace
for the
time being
for the
county
of
Gloucester were constituted
as a
body
of
com-
missioners
for
carrying the
Act of
1814 into execution except
so
far
as the
mayor
and
aldermen
for the
time being
of the
city
of Gloucester were
by the Act of
1814 authorised
to act in the
execution
thereof:
(2)
By the
Act
of
1814 provision was made
for
certain lands
houses buildings
and
premises situated
in
the city
of
Gloucester
and described
or
mentioned
in a
schedule
to the Act of 1814
(hereinafter called
"
the scheduled properties")
to be
acquired
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by agreement or by compulsory procedure in pursuance of the
Act of 1814 by the mayor and aldermen for the time being
of the said city or any three or more of them (hereinafter
referred to as " the corporation ") and for the said properties
when so acquired to vest in the said commissioners and for
the said commissioners or any five or more of them (hereinafter
referred to as " the commissioners") to take possession of the
scheduled properties and to pull down the houses and buildings
comprised therein and to use the sites of all the scheduled
properties for the purpose of building thereon new courts of
justice a new shire hall and offices buildings rooms and other
accommodations as in the Act of 1814 mentioned to be com-
pleted and fitted up as the commissioners should deem requisite
and proper:
(3) It was provided by the Act of 1814 that the cost of
acquisition of the scheduled properties should be contributed
as to the sum of one thousand pounds by the mayor and
burgesses of the city of Gloucester and as to the remainder
thereof by raising assessing and levying the same within eighteen
months from the passing of the Act of 1814 by proportional
rating of the inhabitants and occupiers of properties within the
city and county of the city of Gloucester and any lands tenements
and hereditaments lying outside the county of the said city
but usually rated and assessed to the poor rate in a parish
within the said city and county of a city but omitting any
cottages messuages tenements or gardens ordinarily omitted
from rating for reasons other than vacant possession or
accidental omission:
It was also provided by the Act of 1814 that every tenant
at a rack-rent paying any such rate or assessment should be
entitled to deduct one half-part thereof out of his her or their
respective rent or rents:
(4) It was further provided by the Act of 1814 that all the
costs of obtaining the Act of 1814 and carrying into execution
the several powers and purposes of the Act of 1814 other than
the acquisition of the scheduled properties should be raised by
a rate or rates to be made assessed and levied proportionately
from time to time by the commissioners on all and every
parish town liberty precinct village and hamlet within the
county of Gloucester (except such parts of the borough of
Tewkesbury as had not ordinarily been assessed and contributed
to the county rates for the said county) and all and every extra-
parochial place and other places within the said county (which
should have been rated or assessed to the property tax) but in
making such rate or rates no messuages lands tenements and
premises not exceeding in annual value the sum of four pounds
and which should be in the actual occupation of the owner or
proprietor thereof getting his or her livelihood wholly by daily
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labour and having no other lands or property yielding an income
should be included or estimated nor should such rate or rates
include or estimate such parts of the county of Gloucester as
had been usually rated and assessed to the poor rate in a parish
within the said city and county of a city provided that those
parts should be rated or assessed as hereinbefore mentioned
towards raising money for the purchasing of the scheduled
properties:
It was also provided by the Act of 1814 that every tenant
at a rack-rent paying such rate or rates should be entitled to
deduct two third-parts thereof out of his her or their respective
rent or rents:
(5) It was further provided by the Act of 1814 that the
commissioners might apply towards the expense of erecting the
buildings authorized and directed by the Act of 1814 to be
built the money arising by the sale of a building previously
used as the office of the clerk of the peace of the county of
Gloucester which the commissioners were authorized by the
Act of 1814 to sell when they should have appropriated as such
office and completely finished and fitted up for that purpose
part of the buildings by the Act of 1814 authorized to be
erected
:
(6) With respect to the holding appropriation and use of
the new courts of justice new shire hall offices buildings rooms
and other accommodations which the commissioners were re-
quired by the Act of 1814 as hereinbefore mentioned to build
and fit up and which were in due course built and fitted up
the Act of 1814 contained the several sections and parts of
sections set forth in the First Schedule to this Act:
(7) Power was also given by the Act of 1814 to the justices
of the peace of the county of Gloucester assembled at the general
quarter sessions of the peace for the said county at any time
or times thereafter if they should think it necessary or proper
to order and cause a house with suitable conveniences and accom-
modations to be built on some part of the site of the scheduled
properties for the residence of the clerk of the peace of the
said county or his deputy and to be fitted up in such manner
as such justices should direct and it was provided that all ex-
penses of the erecting and fitting up of the same and all other
expenses incident thereto should be paid out of the county rate
for the county of Gloucester and that when such house con-
veniences and accommodations should be completed and fitted
up the same and every matter and thing appertaining thereto
should from thenceforth be appropriated to the use occupation
and residence of the clerk of the peace for the time being
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