Humber Bridge Act 1959
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7 & 8 ELIZ.
2
Humber Bridge
Act,
1959
Ch. xlvi
CHAPTER xlvi
An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of
a bridge across the river Humber with approach roads
and other works to constitute a Board and for other
purposes. [29th July 1959.]
VI7HEREAS—
(1)
The
construction
of a
bridge
for
vehicular
and
pedestrian
traffic across
the
river Humber between
the
urban district
of
Barton-upon-Humber
in the
Parts
of
Lindsey Lincolnshire
and
the urban district
of
Haltemprice
in the
East Riding
of
Yorkshire
with approach roads would be of public and local advantage:
(2) It
is
expedient to authorise
the
construction and maintenance
of such
a
bridge
and
approach roads
and for
that purpose
to
constitute
a
Board as by this Act provided and to confer upon the
Board
the
power
to
take tolls
in
respect
of the
user
of the
said
bridge
and to
confer upon them
the
other powers contained
in
this
Act:
(3)
It is
expedient that
the
other provisions contained
in
this
Act be enacted:
(4)
The
purposes
of
this
Act
cannot
be
effected without
the
authority
of
Parliament: I
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(5) Estimates have been prepared for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned and such estimates are as follows:— £
The construction of the bridge and other
works authorised by Part IV (Works)
of this Act 15,750,000
(6) The works included in such estimates are permanent works
and it is expedient that the cost thereof should be spread over a
term of years:
(7) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act
1933
have
been observed by the council of the city and county of Kingston
upon Hull:
(8) Plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the works
authorised by this Act and showing the lands required or which
may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act
and also a book of reference containing the names of the owners
and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers
of those lands were duly deposited in the office of the Clerk of
the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of
Commons and with the respective clerks of the county councils
of the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Parts of Lindsey
Lincolnshire which plans sections and book of reference are in
this Act referred to respectively as the deposited plans sections and
book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it 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 (that is to say):—
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Humber Bridge Act 1959.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I—Preliminary.
Part II—Establishment constitution and proceedings of
Board.
Part III—Lands.
Part IV—Works.
Part V—Tolls.
Part VI—Finance.
Part VII—Protective provisions.
Part VIII—Miscellaneous.
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Short title.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
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3.—(1)
The following Acts and parts of Acts (so far as the PART I
same are applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent —cont.
with the provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with this Incorporation
Act (namely):- ofActs-
(a) the Lands Clauses Acts except sections 92 127 to 133
and 150 and 151 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation
Act 1845;
(b) sections 16 and 30 to 44 of the Railways Clauses
Consolidation Act 1845 and sections 78 to 85 of the
same Act as the said sections were originally enacted
and not as amended for certain purposes by section 15
of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1923
and in the construction of those provisions " the
railway " shall mean the works authorised by this Act
and " the centre of the railway " shall mean any part
of those works;
(c) the provisions of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847
with respect to the following matters (namely):—
the contracts to be entered into and the deeds to be
executed by the commissioners (except section 57);
and
the liabilities of the commissioners and legal
proceedings by or against the commissioners.
(2) In the construction of the provisions of the Lands Clauses
Acts the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 and the
Commissioners Clauses Act 1847 incorporated with this Act the
expressions " the promoters of the undertaking" " the
company" and " the commissioners" mean respectively the
Board.
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpretation.
meanings are assigned by section 343 of the Public Health Act
1936
have the same respective meanings unless there be something
in the subject or context or in this section repugnant to such
construction.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
requires—
" the Act of 1933 " means the Local Government Act 1933;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" the Board " means the Humber Bridge Board incorporated
by this Act;
" the bridge " means the river bridge comprised
in
Work
No.
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authorised by
this
Act and
so
much of the approach roads
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