Middlesex County Council Act 1956
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1956 c. xc |
| Year | 1956 |
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MiddlesexCounty Council
Act, 1956 Ch. xc
CHAPTER xc
An Act to make further provision for the disposal of
sewage in the county of Middlesex and parts of adjoin-
ing counties to confer further powers upon the
Middlesex County Council and the local authorities in
Middlesex in relation to the health local government
improvement and finances of the county and the
boroughs and districts therein and for other purposes.
[2nd August 1956.]
V17HEREAS—
(1) In pursuance of powers conferred upon them by the
Middlesex County Council Act 1931 the county council
of the administrative county of Middlesex (in this Act
called " the Council") have constructed main drainage works
and works for the disposal of sewage in the westerly part of
the county:
(2) By the Middlesex County Council (Sewerage) Act 1938
the powers of which were continued by the Middlesex County
Council Act 1944 (in this Act called "the Act of 1944") the
Council were empowered to construct main drainage works
and works for the disposal of sewage in the greater part of the
remainder of the county and in parts of the counties of Essex and
Hertford:
(3) The Council have commenced the construction of the
works which were authorised by the said Act of 1938 but owing
to circumstances beyond their control they have not been able
to complete them and it is expedient to extend the time for
the completion thereof and to confer further powers upon the
Council in reference thereto:
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(4) It is expedient to make further provision in reference to
the health local government improvement and finances of the
county and to confer upon the Council and the councils of
boroughs and districts in the county the further powers contained
in this Act:
(5) By the Act of 1944 provision was made with respect to
the regulation of trading in streets in the county and it is
expedient to make further provision in regard thereto:
(6) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act be enacted:
(7) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(8) Estimates have been prepared by the Council for and in
connection with the following purposes:
—
The additional cost of the purchase of lands
and easements and the construction of
the works authorised by the Act of 1944
as amended by this Act £6,800,000
(9) The several works included in such estimates respectively
are permanent works and it is expedient that the Council should
be empowered to borrow further money for those purposes as
provided by this Act:
(10) 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:
(11) Plans showing the lands required or which may be taken
for the purposes or under the powers of the Act of 1944 as
amended by this Act and showing also the amended limits of
deviation of certain of the works authorised by the Act of 1944
and a book of reference containing the names of owners and
lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of
those lands were duly deposited with the respective clerks of the
county councils of Middlesex Essex and Hertford which plans
and book of reference are in this Act respectively referred to
as the deposited plans and 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 (that is to
say):
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PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Middlesex County Citations.
Council Act 1956.
(2) The Middlesex County Council Acts 1944 and 1950 and
this Act may be jointly cited as the Middlesex County Council
Acts 1944 to 1956.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:— Division of
Part I.—Preliminary. Act kto ptots-
Part II.—Sewerage.
Part III.—Streets buildings and sanitation.
Part IV.—Parks open spaces and cemeteries.
Part V.—Street trading.
Part VI.—Finance.
Part VII.—Miscellaneous.
Part VIII.—General.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts as amended by subsequent enact- Incorporation
ments (so far as they are applicable for the purposes and are of
lands
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) are hereby aauses Acts.
incorporated with and form part of this Act with the following
exceptions and modification:
—
(1) Section 92 (Parties not to be required to sell part of a
house etc.) of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act
1845 and sections 127 to 132 of that Act (which relate
to the sale of superfluous lands) are not incorporated
with this Act;
(2) The bond required by section 85 of the said Act of 1845
shall be sufficient without the addition of the sureties
mentioned in that section.
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions to Interpretation.
which meanings are assigned by sections 90 and 343 of the
Public Health Act 1936 have the same respective meanings unless
there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction and in this Act unless the subject or context
otherwise requires—
" the Act of 1933 " means the Local Government Act 1933 ;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
"the Act of 1944 " means the Middlesex County Council
Act 1944;
"the Act of 1950" means the Middlesex County Council
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