Rugby Urban District Council Act 1923
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1923 c. lxxv |
[13 & 14
GEO.
5.] Rugby Urban [Ch.
lxxv.]
District Council Act, 1923.
CHAPTER lxxv.
An Act to empower the urban district council of AD-1923-
Rugby to construct additional waterworks and
to make further provision in regard to the water
and electricity undertakings of the Council and
the health local government and improvement of
the district and for other purposes.
[31st July 1923.]
TT/"HEREAS the district of Rugby (in this Act referred
VV to as " the district") is an urban sanitary district
within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1875 and an
urban district within the meaning of the Local Govern-
ment Act 1894 and is under the management and control
of the urban district council of Rugby (in this Act
referred to as " the Council "):
And whereas the several local Acts and Provisional
Orders mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act (save
so far as any of them is amended by any later Act or
Order among the same) are in force within the district:
And whereas the Council are the owners of water-
works and are supplying water within the district and in
bulk to the Rugby Rural District Council:
And whereas the supply of water from the present
waterworks of the Council is inadequate to meet the
present and growing demands of the inhabitants of the
district and it is expedient that the Council should be
empowered to make and maintain new waterworks and
to obtain a further supply of water as by this Act
provided:
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[Ch.
lxxv.] Rugby Urban [13 & 14
GEO.
5.]
District Council Act, 1923.
A.D.
1923. And whereas for the purpose of presenting the
pollution of such further supply it is expedient that the
sewerage works in this Act more particularly described
should be constructed:
And whereas it is expedient to amend and extend
the enactments in force in regard to the supply of water
by the Council and to confer further powers on the Council
in regard to their water undertaking:
And whereas in pursuance of the Electricity (Supply)
Acts 1882 to 1922 and the Rugby Electric Lighting
Order 1899 (which was confirmed by the Electric Light-
ing Orders Confirmation (No. 4) Act 1899 and which is
in this Act called " the Order of 1899 ") the Council
are supplying electricity in the district and it is expedient
to make further provision with regard to the electricity
undertaking of the Council as by this Act provided :
And whereas the Council have acquired the market
rights of the lord of the manor of Rugby and have estab-
lished markets both open and covered including a cattle
market and have also built eight slaughterhouses which
are occupied by local butchers as tenants of the Council:
And whereas there are various slaughterhouses in
the district besides those built by the Council and it is ex-
pedient that upon their providing an adequate slaughter-
house the Council should be empowered to require the
discontinuance of slaughtering except in slaughterhouses
provided by them :
And whereas it is expedient that better provision
should be made with reference to streets buildings sewers
and drains within the district and that the powers of
the Council in relation to the health local government
and improvement of the district should be enlarged as
by this Act provided :
And whereas it is expedient that further borrowing
powers for the purposes of this Act and for the other
purposes hereinafter referred to should be conferred
upon the Council:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament;
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[13 & 14
GEO.
5.] Rugby Urban [Ch. lxXV.]
District Council Act, 1923.
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the A.D. 1923.
Council for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and such
estimates are as follows :— £
(a) For and in connection with the pur-
chase of lands and easements for the
purposes of the waterworks author-
ised by this Act and the construction.
of the works described in the section
of this Act the marginal note whereof
is " Power to make waterworks " - 112,300
(b) For and in connection with the pur-
chase of lands and easements for the
purposes of the sewerage works
authorised by this Act and the con-
struction of the sewerage works^
described in the section of this Act
the marginal note whereof is " Power
to make sewerage works " - - 4,250
(c) For the construction of additional
filter beds at the existing waterworks
of the Council and mains and other
purposes in connection with the
supply of water by the Council - - 21,000
And whereas the several works included in such
estimates are permanent works and it is expedient that
the cost thereof should be spread over a term of years :
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill
for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds
Acts 1872 and 1903 have been observed:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines
situations and levels of the works authorised by 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 the lands required or which may be taken
for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were
duly deposited with the respective clerks of the peace
for the counties of Leicester Northampton and Warwick
which plans sections and book of reference 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
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