Portsmouth Corporation Act 1883
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1883 c. ccxi |
[46 & 47 VICT.] Portsmouth Corporation Act, 1883. [Oh. CCXi.]
CHAPTER ccxi.
An Act for making further provision respecting the bor-
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rowing of money by the Corporation of Portsmouth ; and
for other purposes. [20th August 1883.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Portsmouth (in this Act called " the
borough ") is a municipal borough under the government of
the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (in this Act called
" the Corporation ") and the Corporation acting by the Council of
the borough are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the
borough :
And whereas the borough is subject to the Acts relating to Muni-
cipal Corporations and to the several public and local Acts and
Provisional Orders mentioned and referred to in the First Schedule
to this Act annexed and now in force, which Acts and Orders
together with the Acts altering amending or affecting any of such
public Acts so far as the same relate to the borough are in this Act
referred to collectively as " the Corporation Acts " :
And whereas the Corporation are empowered under the Corpora-
tion Acts from time to time to levy rates and to borrow moneys for
the purposes of the said Acts respectively :
And whereas the Corporation acting in execution of the Corpora-
tion Acts have from time to time borrowed various moneys and on
the 25th day of March 1882 owed on account of such moneys
several sums amounting in the whole to the sum of three hundred
and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-one pounds
sixteen shillings and tenpence :
And whereas such sums, are now respectively secured in different
modes with different priorities at different rates of interest and
subject to different conditions as to time of repayment and other-
wise :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
authorised to borrow the further sums herein-after specified for the
purposes in this Act mentioned :
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And whereas the Corporation will or may from time to time
require to borrow further moneys for the purposes of the Corpora-
tion Acts or some of them :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to exercise their statutory borrowing powers for the time being by
means of the creation and issue of Corporation stock :
And whereas the loans of the Corporation authorised and raised
and the amounts thereof subsisting on the 25th day of March 1883
and the periods for which those loans were sanctioned are as set
forth in the Fourth Schedule to this Act:
And whereas notwithstanding that the equivalent period for re-
payment of the several loans mentioned in the said Fourth Schedule
to this Act is twenty-four years it is expedient having regard to the
present heavy pressure of taxation on the inhabitants of the borough
that such of those loans as are converted into Corporation stock under
the provisions of this Act should be repaid within a uniform period
of forty years :
And whereas it is expedient that certain further powers in rela-
tion to infectious diseases the regulation of bathing and other
matters here'in-after specified should be conferred upon the Corpo-
ration as in this Act provided :
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
Council of the borough at a meeting held on. the 28th day of
November 1882 aften ten clear days notice by public advertisement
of such meeting and of the purposes thereof in the " Evening News "
being a local newspaper published and circulating in the borough
(such notice being in addition to the ordinary notices required for
summoning such meeting) resolved that the expense in relation to
promoting the Bill for this Act should be charged on the borough
fund and borough rate and the general district rate for the
borough :
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the said
" Evening News " newspaper and has received the approval of the
Local Government Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
the Council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the 9th day of January 1883 being not less than
fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by
resolution in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of the
Public Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
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May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be Enacted and
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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):—
PART I.—PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Portsmouth Short title.
Corporation Act 1883.
2.
This Act shall be divided into Parts as follows :— Division of
Part I.—Preliminary. Parts.
Part II.—Public Health and Local Government.
Part III.—Financial.
Part IV.—Erection of Town Hall &c.
Part V.—Payment of Expenses.
3.
This Act except where otherwise thereby expressed or implied Limits and
shall apply exclusively to the borough and shall be carried into
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execution by the Corporation acting by the Council and according
to the Municipal Corporation Acts and Public Health Acts respec-
tively and other Acts for the time being affecting the Corporation
as a municipal body or urban sanitary authority and with all the
rights powers privileges exemptions and authorities conferred by
those Acts respectively on the -Corporation and on the Council and
committees of the Council and the officers agents and servants of
the Corporation with respect to matters provided for by or com-
prised in the before-mentioned Acts respectively and as nearly as
may be in all respects as if the powers duties exemptions and pro-
perty vested in imposed on or enjoyed by the Corporation by or
under this Act were vested in imposed on or enjoyed by them by
or under those Acts respectively.
4.
In this Act unless there be something in the subject or context Interpreia-
repugnant to such construction the several words and expressions 10u"
to which by the Public Health Act 1875 or the Corporation Acts
meanings are assigned have the same respective meanings and the
following words or expressions have the meanings following (that is
to say):—
The borough means the borough of Portsmouth;
The Corporation means the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
the borough;
The Council the Town Clerk.and the borough fund and borough
rate mean the Council the Town Clerk and the borough fund and
borough rate of the borough ;
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