Keighley Corporation Act 1912

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1912 c. cvii
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5.] Keighley Corporation Act, 1912. [Ch. Cvii.]
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An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses A*D*1912-
of the borough of Keighley to construct further water-
works and a street improvement to provide and work
a trolley vehicle system to provide and work motor
omnibuses on additional routes to extend the powers
of the Corporation with regard to the health local
government and improvement of the borough and for
other purposes. [7th August 1912.]
W
HEKEAS the borough of Keighley in the West Riding
of the county of York is a municipal borough under the
local government and management of the mayor aldermen and
burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the Corporation"):
And whereas the Corporation are by the Keighley Water-
works Extension and Improvement Act 1869 (hereinafter called
" the Act of 1869 ") the Keighley Corporation Act 1891 (herein-
after called " the Act of 1891") and the Keighley Corporation
Act 1898 authorised to construct certain waterworks and by the
Keighley Corporation Act 1908 the time limited for the con-
struction of such of the works as at the date of the passing of
that Act were not made was extended:
And whereas the Corporation have commenced the con-
struction of the last-named works but it has been found impossible
to proceed with the new Bully Trees reservoir authorised hy the
Act of 1891 and it is therefore expedient to empower the Cor-
poration to abandon the construction of that reservoir and the
Bully Trees conduit required to be constructed hy the Act of
1869 and to construct partly on the site of the Lower Laithe
reservoir authorised by the Act of 1869 the reservoir-by this
Act authorised:
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And whereas it is expedient that the other powers with
regard to the water undertaking of the Corporation set forth in
this Act should be conferred upon the Corporation and that the
provisions with regard to compensation water contained in the
Act of 1869 should be partly repealed and that the provisions'
with regard to discharging compensation water from the reservoir
authorised by this Act should be enacted in lieu
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Corporation to
execute the street improvement referred to in this Act:
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And whereas the Corporation own and work tramways within
the borough and own and work motor omnibuses within and
beyond the borough and it is expedient to authorise them to
provide and work vehicles moved by electrical power transmitted
thereto from some external source and to confer upon the Cor-
poration all necessary powers with regard thereto and also to
enable them to run motor omnibuses upon additional routes beyond
the borough :
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision with
regard to the electricity undertaking of the Corporation:
And whei^eas it is expedient that better provision should be
made with reference to streets buildings sewers and drains within
the borough and that the powers of the Corporation in relation
to the health local government and improvement of the borough
should be enlarged as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Corporation to
discharge the existing mortgage debt on the premises known a,s
the Keighley Institute and to carry out certain extensions of such
premises:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Cor-
poration for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and such estimates
are as follows: £
For the purchase of lands for and for and in
connection with the waterworks authorised by
Part II. of this Act - - - - - 208,750
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£ A.D. 1912.
For the purchase of lands for and for and in
connection with the construction of the street
improvement authorised by Part III. of this
Act - - - - 27,150
For the provision of 'trolley vehicles and the
electrical equipment and other works necessary
for working trolley vehicles - - - . - 27,100
For and in connection with the extension and
improvement of the Keighley Institute - - 27,000
And whereas 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 :
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number
of the council at a meeting held on the twelfth day of
December one thousand nine hundred and eleven after ten
clear days' notice by public advertisement of such meeting
and of the purpose thereof in the Bradford Daily Telegraph
a local newspaper circulating in the borough such notice being
in addition to the ordinary notices required for summoning
such meeting resolved that the expense in relation to promoting
the Bill for this Act should be charged on the district fund
and general district rate:
And whereas the said resolution was published twice in the
Keighley News a local newspaper circulating in the borough and
has received the approval of the Local Government Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for
this Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole
number of the council at a further special meeting held in
pursuance of a similar notice in the Keighley News on the ninth
day of January one thousand nine hundred and twelve being
not less than foui'teen days after the deposit of the Bill in
Parliament:
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And whereas in relation to the promotion, of the Bill for
this Act the requirements contained in the First Schedule to the
Borough Funds Act 1903 have been observed :
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And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works authorised by this Act and a book 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
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