Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No.3) Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. xcix |
| Year | 1887 |
[50 & 51 VICT.] Local Government Shard's [Ch. xcix.]
Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 3) Act, 1887.
CHAPTER xcix.
An Act to confirm certain Provision 1 Orders of the Local
A.D.
1887.
G overnment Board relating to the Local Government
District of Alverstoke, the Boroughs of Dewsbury, Great
Torrington, Halifax, and Nottingham, and the Rural
Sanitary District of the Saint Thomas Union.
[12th July 1887.]
W
HEREAS the Local Government Board have made the Pro-
visional Orders set forth in the Schedule hereto, under the
provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875
And whereas it is requisite that th^ said Orders should he
confirmed hy Parliament, and that the provisions herein contained
should he enacted with reference thereto :
38
&
39 Vict.
c. 55.
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's
hy and with the advice and consent of most Excellent Majesty,
the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows :
hereto shall be and the
provisions thereof shall, The Orders
in Schedule
confirmed.
the Local Government District of Alvdrstoke, the Borouehs of
1.
The Orders set out in the Schedule
same are hereby confirmed, and all the
from, and after the dates therein respectively mentioned, have full
validity and force.
2.
The sanitary authorities mentioned in the Orders relating to Restriction
of power to
take houses
Great Torrington, Halifax, and Nottingham, and the Rural of labouring
Sanitary District of the Saint Thomas Union, shall not, under class*
the powers of this Act or of those Orders, without the consent
of the Local Government Board, purchase or acquire in any
city, borough, or other urban sanitary district, or in any parish or
part of a parish not being within an urban sanitary district, ten or
more houses which, after the passing of this Act, have been, or on
the fifteenth day of December last were, occupied either wholly
or partially by persons belonging to the labouring class as tenants
or lodgers.
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[Oh.
xcix.]
Local Government Board's [50 & 51 VICT.]
Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 3) Act, 1887.
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A.D.
1887.
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The Urban Sanitary Authority for the Borough of
Special Dewsbury shall not under the powers of this Act or of the Order
provisions as relating to that borough hereby confirmed, pnrchase or acquire in
labouring ^ie borough ten or more houses which after the passing of this Act
class.
have been, or on the fifteenth day of December last were, occupied
either wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring
class as tenants or lodgers, unless and until
(a.) They shall have obtained the approval of the Local Govern-
ment Board to a scheme for providing new dwellings for such
number of persons as were residing in such houses on the
fifteenth day of December last or for such number of persons
as the Local Government Board shall, after inquiry, deem
necessary, having regard to the number of persons on or after
that date residing in such houses and working within one mile
therefrom, and to the amount of vacant suitable accommodation
in the immediate neighbourhood of such
houses,
*or
to the place
of employment of such persons, and to all the circumstances of
the case; and
(b.) They shall have given security to the satisfaction of the
Local Government Board for the carrying out of the scheme.
(2.) The approval of the Local Government Board to any scheme
under this section may be given either absolutely or conditionally,
and after the Local Government Board have approved of any such
scheme they may from time to time approve either absolutely or
conditionally of any modifications in the scheme.
(3.) Every scheme under this section shall contain provisions
prescribing the time within which it shall be carried out, and shall
require the new dwellings proposed to be provided under the scheme
to be completed fit for occupation before the persons residing in the
houses in respect of which the scheme is made are displaced:
Provided that the Local Government Board may dispense with
the last-mentioned requirement, subject to such conditions, if any,
as they may see fit.
(4.) Any conditions subject to which the Local Government
Board may have approved of any scheme, or of any modifications
of any scheme under this section, or subject to which they may
have dispensed with the above-mentioned requirement, shall be
enforceable by a writ of mandamus to be obtained by the Local
Government Board out of the Queen's Bench Division of the High
Court of Justice.
(5.) If the sanitary authority acquire or appropriate any house
or houses for the purposes of this Act in contravention of the
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