Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No.14) Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. cxxxviii |
| Year | 1913 |
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Provisional Order
Confirmation
(No. 14) Act, 1913.
CHAPTER cxxxviii.
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local A.D. 1913.
Government Board relating to Liverpool.
[15th August 1913.]
TIT HERE AS the Local Government Board have made the
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Provisional Order set forth in the Eirst Schedule hereto
under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1888:
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And whereas it is requisite that the said Order should he
confirmed by Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the King'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:—
1.
The Order as amended and set out in the Eirst Schedule Order
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hereto (herein-after referred to as "the Order") shall be and g^edulel
the same is hereby confirmed and all the provisions thereof confirmed.
shall have full validity and force.
2.
On any adjustment made otherwise than by agreement Provisions
for the purposes of the Order or of this Act under section mentsmade*"
thirty-two or section sixty-two of the Local Government Act otherwise
1888 or under either of those sections as modified or adapted
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by the Order—
(a) Any adjustment of the local taxation licences the estate
duty grant and the residue under section one of the
Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act 1890 in
pursuance of the Order shall be carried out in accord-
ance with the rules contained in Part I. of the Second
Schedule hereto:
(b) Provision shall be made for the payment to any council
or other authority affected by the Order of such sum
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Provisions
applying to
Order.
Nomination
of additional
aldermen by
the Urban
Councils.
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as seems equitable in accordance with the rules
contained in Part II. of the Second Schedule hereto
in respect of any increase of burden which will
properly be thrown on the ratepayers of the area of
that council or other authority in meeting the cost
incurred by that council or other authority in the
execution of any of their powers and duties as a
consequence of any alteration of boundaries effected
by the Order or other change in relation to which the
adjustment takes place.
In this section and in Part II. of the said Second Schedule
the expression " council or other authority affected by the Order "
includes any council authority or persons entitled to make an
adjustment under section sixty-two of the Local Government
Act 1888 or that section as modified or adapted by the Order.
3.
The following provisions shall apply to the Liverpool
(Extension) Order 1913 (in this section referred to as "the
Liverpool Order ") and expressions in this section have the same
meaning as in the said Order:—
(1)—(a) The Much Woolton Council may if they think fit
by resolution nominate the one of the two persons to
be first elected as additional aldermen of the city
required to be the councillor for the Much "Woolton
ward or to be chosen from among the persons
qualified to be councillors whose qualifying property
is situate in that ward and the person so nominated
shall be elected an alderman of the City Council;
(b) The Allerton Council the Childwall Council and
the Little Woolton Council by a majority of the
members of such councils present and voting at a
meeting to be called for the purpose by the lord
mayor of the city and held between the first and
tenth days of November one thousand nine hundred
and thirteen may if they think fit by resolution
nominate the other of the two persons to be first
elected as additional aldermen of the city and the
person so nominated shall be elected an alderman
of the City Council The said meeting shall be
presided over by one of the said members (to be
chosen by the meeting) who in the event of an
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equality in the voting on any resolution shall have a A.D. 1913.
casting vote in addition to his vote as such member:
(2)—(a) Ten days at least before the ordinary day of Special pro-
election of councillors for the city in each year until vision a?
two additional councillors have for the first time ™ed in~
been elected in pursuance of this subsection for each representa-
of the new wards constituted by the Liverpool Order ^Zdl "^
the town clerk of Liverpool shall ascertain the number
of citizens whose names appear on the ward roll for
each of such new wards When and so soon as the
number of citizens on the ward roll for any such
new ward is so ascertained to be—
(i) Not less than one thousand and not more
than two thousand; or
(ii) More than two thousand;
the town clerk shall in each case cause public notice
to be given throughout the ward to the effect that
at the next ordinary day of election of councillors
one additional councillor will be elected for that
ward and thereafter the number of councillors for
that ward and for the city shall be increased by one
and the town clerk shall insert the necessary parti-
culars in the notice of election to be prepared signed
and published by him in pursuance of section fifty-
four of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882;
(b) So soon as a third councillor has been elected
in any such ward the term of office and the retire-
ment of each of the councillors representing that
ward shall notwithstanding anything in the Liverpool
Order be determined by the City Council in the
manner provided by the Municipal Corporations Act
1882;
(c) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to this
subsection or in the election of a councillor in pur-
suance of this subsection the Local Government Board
may by order do or authorise anything which appears
to them to be necessary or expedient for giving
effect to this subsection cr for the proper holding of
the election and every such order shall have effect
as if enacted in this Act:
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