Liverpool Corporation Act 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1966 c. xxxvi |
Liverpool Corporation
Act
1966
CH.
xxxvi 1
ELIZABETH II
1966 CHAPTER xxxvi
An Act to authorise the lord mayor, aldermen and citizens
of the city of Liverpool to construct street works and
other works; to acquire lands for those and other
purposes; to confer further powers on the said lord
mayor, aldermen and citizens; and for other purposes.
[13th December 1966]
W
HEREAS the city of Liverpool (hereinafter referred to as
" the city ") is a county borough under the management
and local government of the lord mayor, aldermen and
citizens of the city acting by the council (hereinafter referred to as
" the Corporation "):
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
make and maintain the works described in this Act and to confer
on the Corporation for the several purposes mentioned in this
Act powers relative to the purchase and use of lands and
easements:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision for the
improvement and finances of the city and that the powers of the.
Corporation in relation thereto should be enlarged and extended:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions in this
Act should be enacted:
And whereas estimates have been prepared for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned and such estimates are as follows:—
£
The construction of the works authorised by
this Act 34,300,000
2
CH.
xxxvi Liverpool
Corporation
Act 1966
1933 c.
51.
Short title.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
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 the objects of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines or situations
and levels of the works to be constructed under the powers of
this Act and a book of reference to such plans 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 have been 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 town
clerk of the city, which plans, sections and book of reference are
respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited plans, the
deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:
And whereas 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:
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:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Liverpool Corporation Act
1966.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Works.
Part IV.—Protective provisions.
Part V.—Finance and general.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
requires—
" the city " means the city of Liverpool;
" contravention" includes a failure to comply and
" contravene " shall be construed accordingly;
" the Corporation " means the lord mayor, aldermen and
citizens of the city acting by the council of the city;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act or in any
general or local Act, and any order, byelaw, scheme or
regulation for the time being in force within the city;
Liverpool
Corporation
Act 1966
CH.
xxxvi 3
" house " has the same meaning as in section 343 of the PART I
Public Health Act, 1936;
—COM.
" land " or " lands " includes land covered with water and l936 c" 49-
any interest in land and any easement or right in, to,
under or over land;
" the Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Acts
as modified by the Lands Tribunal Act, 1949, and by the 1949 c. 42.
Land Compensation Act, 1961; 1961 c. 33.
" the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation
shown on the deposited plans;
" the Minister " means—
(a) for the purposes of Part II (Lands) and Part V
(Finance and general) of this Act, the Minister of
Housing and Local Government; and
(b) in all other cases, the Minister of Transport;
" relocation of population or industry " has, in relation to
any land which may be acquired under this Act, the
meaning assigned to that term in section 221 of the
Town and Country Planning Act, 1962, in relation to 1962 c. 38.
an area of obsolete development;
" reserved area " means any area for the time being set
apart in or adjacent to the works or in or adjacent to
any street improvement for dividing lines of traffic
or for separating footway and carriageway, or, where
no part of the works or of a street improvement has
been laid out as footway, for separating the carriageway
from the adjoining lands;
" street" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Highways Act, 1959; 1959 c. 25.
" street improvement" means any of the works or any work
carried out by the Corporation in the city under powers
conferred by Part V of the Highways Act, 1959, other
than sections 83 and 84
thereof;
" the town clerk " means the town clerk of the city;
" the tribunal " means the Lands Tribunal;
" the works " means the works authorised by Part III (Works)
of this Act.
(2) Where in this Act any distance or length is stated in the
description of any work, the reference to that distance or length
shall be construed as if the words " or thereabouts " were inserted
after such distance or length
(3) Any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed
as a reference to that enactment as applied, extended, amended
or varied by, or by virtue of, any subsequent enactment including
this Act.
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