London Bridge Improvements Act 1962
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1962 c. l |
| Year | 1962 |
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London Bridge Improvements
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Act,
1962
CHAPTER 1
An Act to empower the Corporation of London to widen
London Bridge and to construct other works, to
acquire lands compulsoriiy; and for other purposes.,
[1st August, 1962.]
V17HEREAS—
(1)
The
Corporation
of
London
are
seised
of, or
entitled
to,
certain messuages, lands, tenements
and
hereditaments
in the
city
of
London
and in the
counties
of
London, Surrey, Kent
and
Essex (which
are
commonly called
and are
hereinafter* referred
to
as "
the Bridge House Estates
") in
trust
for the
maintenance
and support
of
London Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark
Bridge
and the
Tower Bridge:
(2)
It is
expedient
to
empower
the
Corporation
to
carry
out
the works described
in
this
Act for
widening London Bridge
and
for providing improved facilities
for the
passage
of
pedestrians
to
and
from London Bridge Railway Station
and
over London
Bridge,
and to
defray
the
expenses
of
such works
out of
the rents
and profits
of the
Bridge House Estates:
(3)
The
objects
of
this
Act
cannot
be
attained without
the
authority
of
Parliament:
(4)
A
plan
and
sections showing
the
lines
and
levels
of the
works authorised
by
this
Act and
showing
the
lands required,
or
which
may be
taken,
for the
purposes
or
under
the
powers
of
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this Act, and also a book of reference containing the names of
the
owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the
occupiers of those lands, were duly deposited in the office of
the
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office, House of
Commons, with the clerk of the London County Council and
with the town clerk of the city of London and the respective
town clerks of the metropolitan boroughs of Bermondsey and
Southwark, which plan, sections and book of reference are in this
Act referred to respectively as the deposited plan, the deposited
sections and the deposited book 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:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short
title.
l. This Act may be cited as the London Bridge Improvements
Act, 1962.
Division of 2. This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
parts>
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Works.
Part TV.—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act, unless there be something in the subject
or context repugnant to such construction—
"boroughs" means the metropolitan boroughs of
Bermondsey and Southwark;
" borough " means either of those metropolitan boroughs
and " the borough " means that one of those metropolitan
boroughs in relation to which the expression is used;
" borough council" means the mayor, aldermen and
councillors of a borough and " the borough council"
means the mayor, aldermen and councillors of the
borough in relation to which the expression is used;
" city " means the city of London;
"Corporation" means the mayor and commonalty and
citizens of the city, trustees of the Bridge House
Estates;
" county council" means the London County Council;
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"elevated footway" means the elevated footway and
PART
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footbridges (Work No. 3) authorised by this Act; —com.
" 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;
"improvements" means the works authorised by this
Act, or any of
them,
or any part of any of
those
works;
" Lands Clauses Acts" means the Lands Clauses Acts as
modified by the Land Compensation Act, 1961, and by
this Act;
" limits of deviation " means the limits of deviation for the
improvements shown on the deposited plan;
" Minister " means the Minister of Transport;
" port authority " means the Port of London Authority;
" street" includes a highway, a public bridge and any road,
lane,
footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a
thoroughfare or not, and notwithstanding the absence
of houses;
" town clerk " and " engineer " mean the town clerk and
engineer of the city and include any persons duly
appointed to discharge temporarily the respective duties
of those officers.
(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference
in this Act to any 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.
(3) All distances and lengths stated in any description of
works (other than in paragraph (2) of section 43 (For protection
of port authority and river users) of this Act) shall be construed
as if the words " or thereabouts" were inserted after each such
distance and length.
4.
The Lands Clauses Acts, except section 92 and sections
127
incorporation
to 133, 150 and 151 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, of
Acts.
1845 (so far as they are applicable for the purposes and are
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) are hereby
incorporated with this Act:
Provided that the bond required by section 85 of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be sufficient without the
addition of the sureties mentioned in that section.
PART II
LANDS
5.—(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Corporation Power to
may enter upon, take and use such of the lands in the city and acquire lands.
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