Portsmouth Corporation Act 1959

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Citation1959 c. xlv
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Portsmouth Corporation
Act, 1959 Ch. xlv
CHAPTER xlv
An Act to authorise the lord mayor aldermen and citizens
of the city of Portsmouth to construct quay works and
street improvements to purchase lands compulsorily
for those and other purposes to make provision with
regard to lands streets and buildings and the local
government health welfare improvement and finances
of the city to confer further powers upon them and
to make further provision with reference to their
Camber Dock and Flathouse Wharf undertakings and
Langstone Harbour and for other purposes.
[29th July 1959.]
VT7HEREAS
(1) The city of Portsmouth (hereinafter referred to as " the
city ") is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating to
municipal corporations and is a county borough within the
meaning of the Local Government Act 1888 and is under the
management and local government of the lord mayor aldermen
and citizens of the city (hereinafter referred to as "the
Corporation "):
(2) It is expedient to empower the Corporation to make and
maintain the works described in this Act:
(3) It is expedient to confer on the Corporation powers relative
to the purchase and use of lands for the several purposes
mentioned in this Act: 1
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(4) It is expedient to make further and better provision in
reference to lands streets and buildings and to the local govern-
ment health welfare and improvement of the city and the finances
of the Corporation and to confer on the Corporation the further
powers contained in this Act:
(5) It is expedient that further and better provision should be
made and that further powers should be conferred on the
Corporation in connection with their Camber Dock and Flathouse
Wharf undertakings and the portion of Langstone Harbour which
is within the city:
(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 Corporation for and
in connection with the following purposes : £
(a) The construction of the quay works
authorised by this Act and works in
connection therewith 182,000
(b) The construction of the street improvements
authorised by this Act 117,000
(9) The works included in such estimates are permanent
works and it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to borrow 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 and sections showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works authorised by this Act and a book of reference
to such plans containing the names of the owners and lessees
or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands
required or which may be taken for the purposes or under the
powers of this Act have been duly deposited in the office of the
Clerk of
the
Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House
of Commons and with the town clerk of the city which plans
sections and book of reference are in this Act referred to
respectively as " the deposited plans" " the deposited sections "
and " the deposited 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
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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
1.
This Act may be cited as the Portsmouth Corporation Short title.
Act 1959.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Works.
Part IV.—Streets.
Part V.—Public health.
Part VI.—Fire prevention.
Part VII.—Police.
Part VIII.—Movable dwellings.
Part IX.—Finance and rating.
Part X.—Cultural activities.
Part XI.—Dock and harbour etc. provisions.
Part XII.—Miscellaneous.
Part XIII.—Protective provisions.
Part XIV.—General.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpretation.
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.
(2) In
this
Act
unless
the subject or context otherwise requires
" Act of 1839 " means the Act 2 & 3 Vict. c. lxxii intituled
" An Act for enlarging the Town Quay of the Borough of
Portsmouth and for improving that Portion of the
Harbour of Portsmouth called The Camber ";
"Act of 1847" means the Harbours Docks and Piers
Clauses Act 1847;
" Act of 1868 " means the Portsmouth Camber Quays Act
1868;
" Act of 1883 " means the Landport Wharf Act 1883;
"Act of 1931" means the Portsmouth Corporation Act
1931;
" Act of
1933
" means the Local Government Act 1933;
" Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
"Act of 1947" means the Town and Country Planning
Act 1947; 3
Division
of
Act
into
Parts.

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