Liverpool Cattle Market Act 1896
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1896 c. xxi |
[59 VICT.] Liverpool Cattle Market Ad, 1896. [Oh. XXI.]
CHAPTER xxi.
An Act to incorporate and confer powers on the Liverpool
A.D.
1896.
Cattle Market Company and for other purposes. —
[21st May 1896.]
W
HEREAS the provision of improved market accommodation
for the sale of cattle and other live stock and of meat game
fruit vegetables hay straw and other articles and things in the
city of Liverpool or neighbourhood would be of local and public
advantage:
And whereas the persons in this Act named are (with others)
willing to undertake such provision and it is expedient that they be
incorporated as a Company (in this Act called " the Company ") and
that powers be conferred on them for the purpose :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company be empowered to
acquire the lands and to make and maintain the railways subways
or street tunnels and other works in this Act described :
And whereas the Liverpool New Cattle Market Company (in this
Act called " the Old Company ") which was incorporated by an
Act passed in the year 1832 (2 Will. IV. c. viii.) intituled " An Act
" for establishing a market in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill in
" the county palatine of Lancaster " (in this Act referred to as " the
Act of 1832 ") has for many years earned on a market for the sale
of cattle and other live stock in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill
near the city of Liverpool:
And whereas the share capital of the Old Company is fifteen
thousand pounds divided into six hundred shares of twenty-five
pounds each all of which have been issued and fully paid and the
Old Company has borrowed on mortgage debentures the sum of
seven thousand nine Imndred and fifty pounds:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Company to acquire
by agreement the undertaking of the Old Company :
And whereas an agreement has been entered into (subject to the
sanction of Parliament) on behalf of the Company proposed to be
incorporated by this Act for the purchase of the undertaking of the
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[Ch.
XXi.] Liverpool Cattle Market Act, 1896. [59 VICT.]
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1896. Old Company and for taking over the powers assets and liabilities of
that Company and it is expedient to confirm the said agreement as
set out in the First Schedule to this Act:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the
railways and subways or street tunnels 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 county of Lancaster and are herein-after respectively referred
to as the deposited plans sections and books 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 :—
I.—PRELIMINARY.
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Liverpool Cattle Market Act
1896.
2.
The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 Part I.
(relating to cancellation and surrender* of shares) and Part III.
(relating to debenture stock) of the Companies Clauses Act 1863
the Lands Clauses Acts the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
and Part I. (relating to construction of a railway) and Part III.
(relating to working agreements) of the Railways Clauses Act 1863
and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847 except section 13
thereof are (except where expressly varied by this Act) incorporated
with and form part of this Act Provided that the Public Health
(Confirmation of Byelaws) Act 1884 shall apply to byelaws made
under this Act and to any byelaws which may hereafter be made
under the Act of 1832.
3.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction And
for the purposes of this Act the expression " superior courts " or
" court of competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in
this Act or any Act wholly or partially incorporated herewith shall
be read and have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to
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which the expression is used were a simple contract debt and not a
A.D.
1896.
debt or demand created by statute. —
4.
The limits of this Act so far as it relates to markets and Limits
of
slaughter-houses shall be co-extensive with the limits for the time Act'
being of the market places market buildings and other buildings
conveniences lands and approaches connected therewith belonging
to or under the control from time to time of the Company.
II.—CONSTITUTION
&C. OF
COMPANY.
5.
John Sutherland Harmood Banner Benjamin Cain Hugh Company
Cullen Sir William Bower Forwood Walter Glynn William Nelson
incorPorated-
George Nicholson James Marke Wood and all other persons and
corporations who have already subscribed to or shall hereafter
become proprietors in the undertaking and their executors adminis-
trators successors and assigns respectively shall be and are hereby
united into a company for the purpose of providing and maintaining
market accommodation and of establishing and holding markets for
the sale of cattle and other live stock and of meat poultry game
fruit vegetables hay straw and other articles and things and
generally for the purpose of putting into execution the powers and
provisions of this Act and for those purposes shall be and are
hereby incorporated by the name of the Liverpool Cattle Market
Company and by that name shall be a body corporate with perpetual
succession and a common seal and with power to purchase take hold
and dispose of lands and other property for the purposes of this Act.
6. The capital of the Company shall be three hundred thousand Capital.
pounds in thirty thousand shares of ten pounds each.
7.
The Company shall not issue any share created under the Shares not
authority of this Act nor shall any such share vest in the person to
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accepting the same unless and until a sum not being less than fifth paid.
one-fifth of the amount of such share is paid in respect
thereof.
8. One-fifth of the amount of a share shall be the greatest Calls on
amount of a call and three months at least shall be the interval shares'
between successive calls and three-fourths of the amount of a
share shall be the utmost aggregate amount of the calls made in
any year on any share.
9. If any money is payable to a shareholder or mortgagee or
Receipt in
debenture stockholder being a minor idiot or lunatic the receipt ^^fr"
of the guardian or committee of his estate skall be a sufficient sui juris.
discharge to the Company. A 2 a
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