Ilkley Local Board Act 1893
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[56
VICT.]
Wdey Local Board
Act,
1893.
[CJl. xlviiJ
CHAPTER xlvii.
An Act for empowering the Local Board for the district of
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Ilkley in the west riding of the county of York to
construct additional waterworks and improve their
existing water supply and to purchase the undertaking
of the Ilkley Gas Company and for making better
provision for the health and government of the district
and for other purposes. [9th June 1893.]
W
HEREAS under
the
Ilkley Local Board
Act 1871 the
Local
Board
for the
district
of
Ilkley
in the
west riding
of the
county
of
York acquired
the
undertaking
of the
Ilkley Waterworks
Company
and are
now supplying water throughout their district:
And whereas
in
consequence
of the
growth
of
population
and the
rise
of
large hydropathic establishments within
the
district
the
existing water supply
is
insufficient
for
public requirements:
And whereas
it is
expedient
to
empower
the
Local Board
to
acquire
an
additional supply
of
water from certain springs
and to
construct additional waterworks:
And whereas
it is
expedient
to
extend
the
limits
of
water supply
of
the
Local Board
so as to
include
the
parishes
or
townships
of
Myddelton Nessfield-with-Langbar
and
Denton
all in the
west
riding:
And whereas under
the
Ilkley
Gas Act 1869 the
Ilkley
Gas
Act 1871
and the
Ilkley
Gas Act 1879 the
Ilkley
Gas
Company
(herein-after called
" the Gas
Company
") are
supplying
gas
within
limits which comprise
the
district
of the
Local Board
and the
parishes
or
townships
of
Myddelton
and
Nessfield-with-Langbar:
And whereas
it has
been agreed between
the
Local Board
and the
Gas Company that
the
undertaking
of the Gas
Company shall
be
sold
and
transferred
to the
Local Board upon
and
subject
to the
terms
and
conditions
of the
agreement
a
copy
of
which
is set
forth
in
the
schedule
to
this
Act
(herein-after referred
to as "the
scheduled agreement"):
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ind whereas it is expedient that the scheduled agreement be
confirmed and that the Local Board be empowered from and after
the completion of the sale and transfer to supply gas within the
present limits of supply of the Gas Company and also within the
township and parish of Denton :
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board be empowered
to erect and provide a new town hall with all necessary offices and
buildings on land now possessed by them or to be hereafter acquired
by them by agreement and with the sanction of the Local Govern-
ment Board to borrow money for the purpose :
And whereas it is expedient that further powers in relation to
infectious diseases sanitary matters buildings and streets private
street works street traffic and police regulations and other matters
should be conferred on the Local Board and that such other
provisions should be made as this Act contains:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the works authorised by this Act and also books of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required or which may
be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were duly
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the west riding of the
county of York and are hereafter referred to as the deposited plans
sections and books of reference :
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Local Board
for works for waterworks purposes and such estimates amount to
the sum of twenty thousand pounds and the said works are
permanent works within the meaning of section two hundred and
thirty-four of the Public Health Act 1875:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
Local Board at two meetings held on the twenty-first day of
October one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one and the
eighteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
one respectively after ten clear days notice by public advertisement
of such meetings and of the purpose thereof respectively in the
Hkley Free Press and Addingham Courier and in the Ilkley Gazette
being local newspapers published and circulating in the district
(such notices being in addition to the ordinary notices required for
summoning such meetings) resolved that the Bill for this Act be
promoted and that the Local Board incur the requisite expense in
relation thereto :
And whereas such resolutions were each published twice in the
said newspapers and in respect of matters under the respective
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jurisdictions of the Local Government Board and the Secretary of
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State have received the approval of such Board and one of Her
Majesty's Secretaries of State respectively:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole members
of the Local Board at a further special meeting held in pursuance
of a similar notice on the twenty-fifth day of January one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-two being not less than fourteen days
after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the district by
resolutions in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of the
Public Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act:
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 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 Ilkley Local Board Act 1893. short title.
2.
This Act is divided into parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Water.
Part IIL—Gas.
Part IV.—Town hall.
Part V.—Infectious diseases.
Part VI.—Sanitary.
Part VII.—Buildings and streets.
Part VIII.—Street traffic and police regulations.
Part IX.—Slaughter-houses.
Part X.—Finance.
Part XL—Bvelaws.
Part XII.—Miscellaneous.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts the "Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 as Incorpora-
altered by section 57 of the Public Health Act 1875 and except the *£J^,
provisions thereof with respect to the amount of profit to
be
received Acts.
by the Undertakers when the waterworks are carried on for their
benefit and the Waterworks Clauses Act 1863 shall (except where
expressly varied by or inconsistent with this Act) be incorporated
with and form part of this Act.
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Act
divided
into
parts.
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