Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1947 c. xxxiii |
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6. Southend-on-Sea Ch. xxxiii.
Corporation Act, 1947.
CHAPTER xxxiii.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the county borough of Southend-on-Sea to construct
sea walls harbours
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street works and other works to
authorise the acquisition of lands for sundry purposes
and the development of lands for industrial and other
purposes to confer further powers on them in reference
to their pier electricity gas water transport and enter-
tainments undertakings and the provision of trolley
vehicles to enact provisions relating to houseboats &c.
and to make further and better provision-in reference
to the foreshore and the improvement health local
government and finances of the borough and for other
purposes. [31st July 1947.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient to empower the mayor alder-
men and burgesses of the county borough of Southend-
on-Sea (in this Act called " the Corporation ") to acquire
certain lands in the borough and in the county of Essex and to
confer powers upon them to develop lands for industrial and
other purposes:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Corporation
to construct the improvement works referred to in this Act
and to reclaim the whole or part of the Leigh Marsh lands
and to use part of those lands for the extension of the
promenade and for the purposes of recreation and amuse-
ments :
And whereas there are on and near the foreshore and the
Leigh Marsh lands certain houseboats and other boats and
structures which would interfere with the carrying out of such
projects and which injure the amenities of the neighbourhood:
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Corporation Act, 1947.
And whereas it is uncertain whether rights adverse to the
Corporaton's ownership in portions of the foreshore and other
lands may not exist in the owners of such houseboats and
structures and it is expedient that any such rights should be
extinguished and that the Corporation should be empowered
to prohibit the mooring of houseboats and other boats and the
maintenance and erection of structures and that the other
provisions of this Act relating thereto should be enacted:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of a pier
undertaking and it is expedient that they should be empowered
to construct harbours and that further provisions should be
enacted in regard to that undertaking and in regard to the
foreshore:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of and are
working a system of trolley vehicles within the borough and
by the Southend-on-Sea Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order
1942 made by the Minister of War Transport in virtue of his
powers under the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 the
Corporation were empowered to provide equip maintain and
use trolley vehicles along the route in the borough therein
mentioned and it is expedient that the powers of the Corpora-
tion should be confirmed and that they should be empowered
to provide equip maintain and use trolley vehicles along a
new trolley vehicle route within the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to confer further powers on the
Corporation in regard to their trolley vehicles public service
vehicles and electricity undertakings:
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Corpora-
tion in relation to the health local government and improve-
ment of the borough and other matters should be enlarged as
by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision in
regard to the finances of the Corporation:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act 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 Cor-
poration for and in connection with the following purposes: —
£
(T)
The purchase of lands under the
powers of this-Act 740,230
(2) The construction of the improve-
ment works authorised by this Act
1,448,557
(3) The construction of the "Harbour
works authorised by this Act ... 200,000
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6. Soulhend-on-Sea Ch. xxxiii.
Corporation Act, 1947. £
(4) The provision of trolley vehicles 3,000
(5) The provision of trolley vehicle
equipment and the construc-
tion of other works necessary for or
in connection with the working of
trolley vehicles ... 3,000
And whereas the several works included in such estimates
respectively are permanent works and it is expedient that the
Corporation should be empowered to borrow money for those
purposes as provided by this Act:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act the requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government
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24
Act 1933 have been observed: Geo- 5-
c. 51.
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and
levels of the works authorised by this Act and showing the
lands required or which may be taken for the purposes or
under the powers of this Act and also a book of reference con-
taining the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of those lands were duly de-
posited with the town clerk of the borough and with the clerk
of the county council of the administrative county of Essex
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 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.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Southend-on-Sea Cor- Short and
poration Act 1947. collective
titles.
' (2) The Southend Local Board Act 1875 the Southend Local f0
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Board Act 1887 the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1895 the
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Leigh-on-Sea Urban District Council Act i88g the Southend-on- c.2ccxvu.
Sea Corporation Act 1909 the Southend-on-Sea Corporation I &'
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Act 1913 the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1926 the
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•Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1930 and this Act may be
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cited jointly as the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Acts 1875 to
1947.
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