Liverpool Corporation Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. lxxxviii |
| Year | 1927 |
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5.] Liverpool [Ch.
lxxxviii.]
Corporation Act, 1927.
CHAPTER lxxxviii.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the city of
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1927.
Liverpool to authorise the Corporation of that
city to construct new streets additional tram-
ways and other works to confer further powers
upon them with respect to their tramways
waterworks and electricity undertakings to make
better provision for the health local government
and finance of the city to provide for the disuse
and deconsecration of the Chapel of the Liver-
pool School for the Indigent Blind to empower
the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to con-
tribute towards the cost -of a new arterial road
between Liverpool and East Lancashire and for
other purposes. [29th July 1927.]
W
HEREAS the city of Liverpool (in this Act referred
to as " the city ") is a municipal borough subject
to the Acts relating to municipal corporations and is a
county borough within the meaning of the Local
Government Act 1888 and is subject to the jurisdiction of
the lord mayor aldermen and citizens of the city (in
this Act referred to as " the Corporation "):
And whereas the city now comprises the parish of
Liverpool which is situate in the West Derby Poor Law
Union :
And whereas the parishes of Croxteth Park and West
Derby Rural adjoin the city and are subject to the juris-
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Corporation Act, 1927.
A.D.
1927. diction of the rural district council of Sefton and also
w— form part of the said poor law union :
And whereas the'.said parishes are already situate
within the limits for the supply of
watej'
by the Cor-
poration and the Corporation are carrying out extensive
housing schemes therein and the sewerage of the said
parishes .when developed can only be efficiently and
economically dealt with by the Corporation :
And whereas it is. expedient that the boundaries of
the city and of the parish of Liverpool should be extended
so as to include the said parishes therein ;
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the several
Acts Provisional and other Orders specified in the First
Schedule to this Act are immediately prior to the passing
of this Act in force within the city and it is expedient that
those Acts and Orders as amended by this Act should
apply throughout the city as extended by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the new arterial road
within the city (partly in tunnel) by this Act authorised
should be made so as to complete a direct communication
between the central portions of the city and the proposed
new arterial road between Liverpool and East Lancashire
and that in connection therewith an improvement of
certain congested areas should be carried out and that
the Corporation should be empowered to acquire lands
for those and other purposes:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
should be empowered to construct certain tramways
within the city and that further powers should be con-
ferred upon them with respect to their tramways
undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient that, the limits within
which the. Corporation are empowered to supply water
should be extended so as to include the township of
Rain hill in the rural district of Wbiston within which
water is now supplied by the Rainhill Gas and Water
Company and that a portion of the water undertaking
of the said company should be transferred to the Corpora-.
tion and that in connection with such transfer and for the
purposes of the supply of water in the said township the
VVhiston Rural District Council should be empowered to
borrow money as by this Act provided:
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And whereas it is expedient that further powers A.D. 1927.
should be conferred upon the Corporation in connection
with their waterworks undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient that the undertaking of
the Hightown Electricity Company should be vested in
the Corporation and that the limits within which they are
authorised to supply electricity should be extended as
provided by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that further and better
provision should be made with reference to baths streets
infectious disease and police and sanitary matters fire
prevention and otherwise for the local government health
improvement and finance of the city and that the powers
of the Corporation in relation thereto should be enlarged
and extended :
And whereas by the Act 10 Geo. IV. cap. xv. the
president vice-presidents treasurer and members of the
Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind (in this Act
referred to as "the charity") were incorporated and
provision was made for regulating and supporting a chapel
attached to the said school:
And whereas the chapel originally established in
connection with the said school was acquired by the
London and North Western Railway Company in pursu-
ance of the Lime Street (Liverpool) and Crewe Stations
Extension Act 1847 and by an indenture dated the
twenty-fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-one and made between the Corporation of the
first part two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury of the second part and the charity of the third
part the reversion in the site of a new chapel and the
chapel erected thereon (which had previously been held
by the charity on lease from the Corporation) were
granted and conveyed by the Corporation to the charity
upon the trusts mentioned in the said indenture :
And whereas the said trusts provide (inter alia) that
the said chapel should for ever be set apart and dedicated
to and for the Worship and service of Almighty God and
the celebration of divine offices therein according to the
rites and usages of the United Church of England and
Ireland in connection with the said school and that if the
charity or their successors should ever sell mortgage
charge incumber demise or lease or otherwise dispose of
the said chapel and the site thereof without the consent
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