Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1930
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1930 c. clxxxiii |
| Year | 1930 |
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5.] Southend-on-Sea [Ch. clxxxiii.]
Corporation Act, 1930.
CHAPTER clxxxiii.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and
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burgesses of the borough of Southend-on-Sea to
execute street works to confer further powers
upon them with regard to the provision and
working of trolley vehicles and omnibuses and
for other purposes. [1st August 1930.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Southend-on-Sea (in
this Act called " the borough ") in the adminis-
trative county of Essex is a county borough under the
management and local government of the mayor alder-
men and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called
" the Corporation ") :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Cor-
poration to construct the street works authorised by
this Act:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of
and are working a system of light railways and also
a system of trolley vehicles within the borough and
it is expedient to empower them to use trolley vehicles
upon the additional trolley vehicle routes referred to
in this Act and to confer further powers upon them
in relation to their light railway and trolley vehicle
undertakings :
And whereas by the Southend-on-Sea Corporation
Act 1913 powers were conferred upon the Corporation
with reference to the running of omnibuses within the
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Clxxxiii.] Southend-on-Sea [20 & 21
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Corporation Act, 1930.
A.D.
1930. borough and it is expedient to make further provision
— with reference to the omnibus undertaking of the Cor-
poration :
And whereas it is expedient that the other pro-
visions contained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament :
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the
Corporation for the purposes hereinafter mentioned
and such estimates are as follows :—
The construction of the street works £
authorised by Part II of this Act 24,703
The purchase of lands - - - 77,997
The provision of trolley vehicles * 90,520
The provision of electrical equipment
and the construction of other
works necessary for working
trolley vehicles - 41,679
The provision of omnibuses - - 33,750
The erection of buildings for the pur-
poses of the trolley vehicles and
omnibuses of the Corporation - 27,600
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
and levels of the street 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 clerk of the peace
for the county of Essex and are hereinafter 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
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5.] Southend-on-8ea [Ch. clxxxiii.]
Corporation Act, 1930.
Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the A.D. 1930,
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 Southend-on-Sea
Corporation Act 1930.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :—
Part I.—-Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands and street works.
Part III.—Trolley vehicles omnibuses and light
railways.
Part IV.—Financial and miscellaneous pro-
visions.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts (so far as the same are Incorpora-
applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent tion of Acts.
with the provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated
with thia Act with the following exception and modi-
fication (namely) :—
(a) Section 127 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation
Act 1845 (relating to the sale of superfluous
lands) is not incorporated with this Act;
(b) The bond required by section 85 of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall be suffi-
cient without the addition of the sureties
mentioned in that section.
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and ex- Interpreta-
pressions to which meanings are assigned by the Acts tion.
wholly or partially incorporated herewith or by the
Public Health Acts 1875 to 1925 have the same respec-
tive 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 borough " means the borough of Southend-
on-Sea ; A 2 3
Short title.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
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