Rochdale Corporation Act 1958
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1958 c. xxxviii |
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i i/. Rochdale Corporation Act, 1958 Ch. xxxviii
CHAPTER xxxviii
An Act to confer further powers on the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the county borough of Rochdale m
relation to lands streets and buildings and the local
government health welfare improvement and finances
of the borough and to make further provision with
reference to their transport and water undertakings and
for other purposes. [23rd July 1958.]
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HEREAS—
(1) The county borough of Rochdale is a municipal borough
under the management and local government of the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough acting by toe council
(in this Act respectively referred to as " the borough and me
Corporation "):
(2) It is expedient that further and better provision should be
made with reference to lands streets and buildings and tor me
local government health welfare and improvement ot the
borough and the
finances
of the Corporation and that the powers
of the Corporation in relation thereto should be enlarged ana
extended:
(3) It is expedient that further and better provision should be
made and that further powers should be conferred on me
Corporation in connection with their transport and water
undertakings:
(4) It is expedient that the other provisions in this Act should
be enacted:
(5) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
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(6) 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:
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:—
Short title.
Division of
Act into Parts.
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Rochdale Corporation Act 1958.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Streets sanitation buildings etc.
Part IV.—Fire precautions.
Part V.—Weights and measures.
Part VI.—Transport.
Part VII.—Water.
Part VIII.—Finance.
Part IX.—Miscellaneous.
Part X.—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions to 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.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise requires
the following expressions have the following meanings:—
" Act of 1925 " means the Rochdale Corporation Act 1925;
" Act of 1930 " means the Rochdale Corporation (General
Powers) Act 1930;
" Act of 1933 " means the Local Government Act 1933;
" Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" Act of 1937 " means the Rochdale Corporation Act 1937;
"Act of 1947" means the Town and Country Planning
Act 1947;
" Act of 1948 " means the Rochdale Corporation Act 1948;
" appointed day " has the meaning which is assigned to it by
section 73 (The appointed day) of this Act;
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" borough " means the county borough of Rochdale; PART I
" commission " means the British Transport Commission; —com.
" contravention" includes a failure to comply and
" contravene " shall be construed accordingly;
" Corporation " means the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough;
" council " means the council of the borough;
" daily fine " means a
fine
for each day on which any offence
is continued after conviction.;
" 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 borough;
" general rate fund " and " general rate " mean respectively
the general rate fund and the general rate of the
borough;
" magistrates' court" has the meaning assigned to that
expression by section 124 of the Magistrates' Courts
Act 1952;
" Minister" means the Minister of Housing and Local
Government;
" statutory borrowing power " includes a power of borrowing
money conferred on the Corporation by or under any
enactment except paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of
section 215 of the Act of 1933;
" statutory security " means any security in which trustees
are for the time being authorised by law to invest trust
moneys and any mortgage bond debenture debenture
stock stock or other security created by a local authority
as defined by section 34 of the Local Loans Act 1875
but does not include annuities rentcharges or securities
transferable by delivery;
" statutory undertakers" means any company body or
person authorised by any enactment to supply water
electricity or gas;
" town clerk " " medical officer " " surveyor " and " public
health inspector " mean respectively the town clerk the
medical officer of health the surveyor and any public
health inspector of the borough and include any person
duly appointed by the Corporation to discharge
temporarily the duties of any of those officers.
(3) The local Acts in force within the borough shall have
effect as if the references therein to the expression " statutory
security " as defined thereby were omitted and references to the
expression " statutory security " as defined by this section were
substituted therefor. 3
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