Oxfordshire County Council Act 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1971 c. lxiii |
Oxfordshire County Council
Act
1971
c. Ixiii
ELIZABETH II
1971 CHAPTER lxiii
An Act to confer further powers on the Oxfordshire County
Council and on local, highway and other authorities
in the administrative county of Oxford in relation to
lands,
amenities, highways and the local government
improvement, health and finances of the county and ot
the boroughs and districts therein; and for other
PUrP°SeS-
[5th August 1971]
V17HEREAS—
(1) It is expedient that further and better provision should be
made with reference to lands, amenities and highways and tor
the local government, improvement, protection from nreneaitn
and welfare and
finances
of the administrative county ot uxiora,
and that the powers of the county council of that administrative
county and of the local and other authorities therein should oe
enlarged and extended as by this Act provided:
2 c. lxiii
Oxfordshire County Council
Act
1971
(2) It is expedient that the other provisions in this Act
should
be enacted:
(3) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the
authority of Parliament:
(4) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
1933
c.
51.
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act 1933
have been observed:
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.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
1.
This Act
Act 1971. may be cited as the Oxfordshire
<
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.
Part III.-
Part IV.-
Part V.-
Part VI.-
Part VII.-
Part VIII.-
Part IX.
—Lands.
—Highways and road traffic.
—Parks,
cemeteries, etc.
—Public health and welfare.
—Fire protection and public order.
—Finance.
—Miscellaneous.
—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions (other
than those defined in subsection (2) of this section) to which
meanings are assigned by sections 90, 110 and 343 of the Act
of
1936
have the same respective meanings unless there be something
in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
(2) In this Act, unless otherwise expressly enacted or the
subject or context otherwise requires, the following expressions
have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
" the Act of
1933
" means the Local Government Act
1933;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" the Act of 1957 " means the Housing Act 1957;
" the Act of 1959 " means the Highways Act 1959;
1936
c.
49.
1957
c.
56.
1959
c.
25.
Oxfordshire County Council
Act
1971
c. Ixiii 3
" the Act of 1962 " means the Town and Country Planning
PART
I
Act 1962; ~cont.
1962 c 3R
" the Act of 1967 " means the Road Traffic Regulation Act \QIZ l!"
1967;
1967
c.
76.
" apparatus" means mains, pipes or other apparatus, and
electric lines and works (as respectively defined in the
Electric Lighting Act 1882) and telegraphic lines (as
1882
c.
56.
defined in the Telegraph Act 1878) belonging to, or
1878
c.
76.
maintained by, any statutory undertakers, and includes
any works constructed for the lodging therein of
apparatus;
" appointed
day
"
has
the meaning assigned
to
that expression
by section 4 (The appointed day) of
this
Act;
" authorised security " means a mortgage, stock, bond or
other security which the Council or a local authority
(as the case may be) are for the time being authorised
to grant, create or issue, or upon, or by means of,
which the Council or a local authority (as the case may
be) are for the time being authorised to raise money;
" building regulations" has the same meaning as in section 4
of the Public Health Act
1961;
1961
c. 64.
" caravan " has the same meaning as in Part I of the Caravan
Sites and Control of Development Act 1960;
i960
c.
62.
" claimed county road " has the same meaning as in the
Act of 1959;
"contravention" includes failure to comply, and
"contravene" shall be construed accordingly;
" the Council" means the county council of the county;
" the county " means the administrative county of Oxford;
"'county road" means a highway which by virtue of
section
21
of the Act of 1959 or some other enactment
is a county road in the county;
" daily
fine
" means a fine for each day on which an offence
is continued after conviction
thereof;
" district" means a borough or an urban or rural district
in the county;
" 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 within the county;
" the fire authority " has the same meaning as in the Fire
Services Act 1947; 1947 c- 41 •
" highway authority " means-
fa) in the case of a trunk road, the Secretary of
State or, with his consent, the authority who are for
the time being acting as his agent under the Act of
1959 with respect to that road;
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