Lowestoft Corporation Act 1901
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1901 c. ccxlv |
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7.] Lowestoft
Corporation
Act, 1901. [Oh.. CCXlv.]
CHAPTER ccxlv.
An Act to empower the Corporation of Lowestoft to
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construct and work tramways and to construct street
improvements and to make further provision in regard
to the electric lighting undertaking of the Corporation
and in regard to the seashore and recreation grounds
in the Borough the lands known as Lamp Lands and
the health local government and improvement of the
Borough and for other purposes. [9th August 1901.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Lowestoft in the county of Suffolk
is a municipal borough under the management and local
government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough
t)f Lowestoft (in this Act called " the Corporation "):
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
construct and work the tramways mentioned in this Act and to
confer upon the Corporation the powers in regard to the tramways
contained in this Act:
And whereas the tramways authorised by this Act will be entirely
situate in the borough except Tramway No. 1 about 1'5 chains
in length and a part of Tramway No. 4 about two chains in length
which will be situate in the parish of Pakeneld :
And whereas the tramway and part of a tramway which are
authorised to be constructed without the borough will be useful
only for forming a junction with the light railway herein-after
mentioned and it is expedient to render the provisions of section 43
of the Tramways Act 1870 empowering the local authority of any
district in which tramways are constructed to acquire such tramways
inapplicable to such tramway and part of a tramway :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
acquire lands for and to widen and improve the streets and roads
referred to in this Act:
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And whereas the National Electric Traction Company Limited
— are promoting an Order under the Light Railways Act 1896 to
incorporate a company to be known as the East Anglian Light
Railways Company and to empower that company to construct
light railways from the borough to Kessingland in the said county
of Suffolk:
And whereas an agreement has been entered into between the
Corporation of the first part the said National Electric Traction
Company Limited of the second part and the Drake and Gorham
Electric Power and Traction Pioneer Syndicate Limited of the third
part for the leasing in certain events to the said East Anglian Light
Railways Company of the tramways authorised by this Act and
for the purchase in certain events by the Corporation of the light
railways to be authorised by the said Order and the said agreement
is set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act and it is expedient
that the same should be confirmed and that provision should be
made for carrying it into effect as in this Act contained :
And whereas by the Lowestoft Electric Lighting Order 1898
(confirmed by the Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 10)
Act 1898) the Corporation were empowered to supply electrical
energy for public and private purposes within the borough and it
is expedient to make further provision in regard to their electric
lighting undertaking:
And whereas it is expedient that the seaward boundary of the
borough should be defined and that the Corporation should be
invested with further powers of control over the seashore of the
borough :
And whereas in pursuance of the provisions of the Public Health
Act 1875 the Corporation acquired for the purposes of a public
pleasure ground certain lands in the borough known as the Denes
containing upwards of 178 acres and adjoining the seashore and
parts of the said lands are now being used and have for many
years been used for the purpose of drying nets and other purposes
incidental to the fishing industry and it is expedient to confer
further powers upon the Corporation for the management and
regulation of the Denes and to make further provision in regard
t& the pleasure and recreation grounds in the borough :
And whereas by the Lowestoft Improvement Act 1854 after
reciting that by three several deeds poll or instruments in writing
dated respectively the fifth day of April one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-five the twentieth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and one and the twenty-seventh day of February
one thousand eight hundred and five certain lands situate in the
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the churchwardens for the time being of the parish of Lowestoft
to receive and take all the rents and profits thereof and to apply
the same for or towards the reparation and amendment of the
pavements of the streets of the said parish of Lowestoft and for
the lighting of the town of Lowestoft with lamps and for, the
repairing and renewing of the pavements of the streets of that town
and for purchasing all things necessary for those purposes and to
apply the said rents and profits when not wanted for those purposes
or the surplus thereof to such other purposes as the churchwardens
and inhabitants of Lowestoft from time to time should direct And
after reciting several Acts of Parliament relating to the said lands
which with other lands mentioned in the Act of 1854 were called
Lamp Lands it was enacted (section 45) that on and from the
commencement of that Act all the Lamp Lands and other lands
wharves quays buildings moneys stocks funds securities claims
and demands and other real and personal estates and effects of
or to which any persons or person should immediately before
the commencement of the Act be seised possessed or in any way
entitled as trustees or trustee for the purposes and upon the trusts
of the recited deeds poll and the recited Acts or any of them
or for or to be dealt with or disposed of by or according to the
direction of the then existing commissioners should be vested in
the commissioners appointed by or in pursuance of the said Act
of 1854 upon the trusts and for the purposes to upon or for
which the same respectively should then be held or subject subject
nevertheless to all leases mortgages incumbrances debts contracts
claims and demands immediately before the commencement of the
Act subsisting and affecting the same Lamp Lands and real and
personal estates and effects or any part thereof of such trustees or
trustee respectively in respect thereof :
And whereas further provisions were made in regard to the Larrip
Lands by sections 46 to 55 of the Act of 1854:
And whereas it is expedient to extend the powers of the
Corporation in regard to the sale and disposal of the Lamp Lands
and the application of the proceeds of any such sale and of the
revenue derived from the Lamp Lands or from any investments
of moneys received upon the sale or disposition
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient to make further and better provision
with reference to the streets and buildings in the borough and the
health local government improvement and management
thereof:
And whereas in pursuance of the Lowestoft Water Gas and Market
Act 1S53 a market was established upon certain lands situate in the
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