Nottingham Corporation Act 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1947 c. xxxvi |
| Year | 1947 |
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6. Nottingham Corporation Ch. xxxvi.
Act, 1947.
CHAPTER xxxvi.
An Act to authorise the lord mayor aldermen and
citizens of the city of Nottingham and county of the
same city to construct waterworks and to provide
and work trolley vehicles on a further route to make
further provision with regard to the water and
transport undertakings of the said lord mayor aldermen
and citizens to provide for the transfer to them of the
yarn and textile testing bureau of the University
College of Nottingham to make further financial
provision and for other purposes. [31st July 1947.]
HEREAS the city of Nottingham and county of the
same city (in this Act called " the city ") is under the
municipal and local government of the lord mayor aldermen
and citizens of the city (in this Act called " the Corporation ")
and the Corporation supply water within and in considerable
areas outside the city:
And whereas it is expedient to empower- the Corporation
to construct and maintain'the pumping station well and other
waterworks described in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to extend the time for the
completion of certain of the waterworks authorised by the
Nottingham Corporation Act 1938 and to confer the further
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powers upon :the Corporation with regard to their water c-xcv-
undertaking contained in this Act:
And whereas the Corporation carry on a transport under-
taking within and beyond the city and it is expedient to
empower the Corporation to provide and work trolley vehicles
on the further route beyond the city described in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the yarn and textile testing
bureau authorised by the Nottingham Corporation Act 1925 i5&i6Geo.5.
and the buildings appliances engines apparatus and plant c. tix.
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Act, 1947.'
at present forming part of the University College of Notting-
ham in the city should be transferred to the
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Corporation
together with the powers rights and privileges which the said
college are authorised to exercise with regard to the said
bureau and that the other provisions with regard to the said
bureau contained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Corpora-
tion with regard to the borrowing of money and the forma-
tion of funds and other financial matters should be enlarged
as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Corpora-
tion for and in connection with the following purposes: —
£
(a) The purchase of lands and easements 4,150
(b) The construction of so much of Water-
work No. 1 authorised by this Act as
does not consist of machinery ... 111,887
(c) The provision of machinery in
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con-;
nection with Waterwork No. 1
authorised by this Act ... 65,593
(d) The construction of Waterworks
Nos.
2 3 and 5- authorised by this
Act , 304,112
(e) The construction of Waterwork No. 4
authorised by this Act ... 75,182
(/) The additional cost of the construc-
tion of the following waterworks
authorised by the Act of
1938:
—
(i)-
So much of Waterworks ..
Nos.
,1 and 5 as does not consist
of machinery.. 55>323
(ii) The provision of machinery
in connection with Waterworks
Nos.
1 and 5 7>°5I
(iii) Waterworks Nos. 23679
12 and 13 34,728
.
(iv) Waterworks Nos. 4 8 and 10 120,277
(v) Waterwork No. 11
5,982
(g) The provision of trolley vehicles ..." 4,426
(h) The provision of electrical equipment
and the construction of other works-
necessary for working trolley vehicles 11,ill
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6. Nottingham Corporation Ch. xxxvi.
Act, 1947.
And whereas the several works included in such estimates
respectively are permanent works and it is expedient that the
Corporation should be empowered to borrow money for those
purposes as provided by this Act:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act the requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government ^3
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Act 1933 have been observed: eo' 5' c' 5
And whereas plans 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 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
with the clerk of the county council of the administrative
county of Nottingham which plans sections and book of refer-
ence are in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited
plans sections and book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it 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 (that is to say): —
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Nottingham Corporation short title.
Act 1947.
2.
Thisi Act is divided into Parts as follows (that is to say):
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Waterworks and water supply.
Part IV.—Trolley vehicles.
Part V-—Yarn and textile testing bureau;
Part VI.—Financial and.miscellaneous.
3.
The following enactments (so far as the same are applic- incorporation
able for the purposes and are not inconsistent with the provi- °f Acts.
sions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with this Act
(namely): —
(1) The Lands Clauses Acts with the following exceptions
. and modification.:— ..
(a) Section 92 (Parties not to be required to sell
part of a house) and sections 127 to 132 of the
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Division of
Act into
Parts.
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