Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Act 1912
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1912 c. lxxv |
| Year | 1912 |
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5.] Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks [Oh. 1XXV.]
.Ad, 1912.
CHAPTER lxxv.
An Act to enable the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks
A.D.
1912
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Company to construct additional waterworks to sanction
and confirm the construction of existing works to extend
the limits of supply to raise additional capital and for
other purposes [7th August 1912.]
W
HEREAS the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company
(in this Act called "the Company") are incorporated and
empowered by and under the Acts described in the First Schedule
to this Act (in this Act. referred to as " the Company's Acts ") to
maintain certain existing and to construct additional waterworks
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and to supply water within the limits thereby respectively
defined :
And whereas the following is a statement of the capital of
the Company authorised by the said Acts and of the amount
of such capital issued and paid up:
Act authorising
Capital, Amount
authorised Description of Capital and Amount
issued. Amount paid up.
The Company's
Act of 1853.
The Company's
Act of 1861.
The Company's
Act of 1868.
£
105,000
35,000
Share capital consisting of £105,000
fully paid up stock.
Share capital consisting of £35,000
fully paid up stock.
105,000 Share capital consisting of £105.000
fully paid up stock.
Fully paid up
Fully paid up
Fully paid up
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[Ohk IXXV.] Staffordshire Potteries Wate?
Act 1912.
AX>. 1912, Capital authorised by the Company's Act of 1888 :
Amount
authorised to
include
Premiums.
Description of Capital and Amount
issued and Premiums.
Share Capital
available for
Dividend.
Premiums not
available for
Dividend.
Total Capital
issued including
Premiums. Amount paid up
£
180,000 £
90,385 £ 5, d>
56,930 12 0 £ s. d.
147,315 12 0 Fully paid up
And the following is a statement of the loan capital of the
Company authorised by the said Acts:—
Act. Capital in respect of which
Borrowing Powers cxcrciseable. Amount authorised
to be borrowed.
Amount raised
by perpetual
4 per cent.
Debenture Stock
The Company's Act
1853.
The Company's Act
1861,
The Company's Act
1868.
Share capital
Share capital
Share capital
£
105,000
35,000
140,000
105,000
245,000
£ s. d.
30,000 0 0
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8,750 0 0
£
sm
d
38,750 0 0
26,250 0 0
65,000 0 0 65,000 0 0
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Loan capital authorised by the Company's Act of 1888:
Capital in respect
of which
Borrowing Powers
exerciseable to
include Premiums.
Amount authorised
to be borrowed
to include
Premiums.
Amounts raised by perpetual
3i per cent. Debenture Stock and
Premiums.
Stock available
for Interest.
Premiums not
available for
Interest.
Total issued and
paid up including
Premiums.
£
180,000
£
60,000
£
45,850
£ s. d.
3,171
10 0 £ s. d.
49,021
10 0
And whereas the demand for water within the limits of the
Company for the supply of water has increased and is still
increasing and for the better and more effectually enabling the
Company to meet such demand and to carry out the objects and
purposes of their water undertaking it is expedient that power
should be conferred upon the Company to construct additional
waterworks and that the construction of certain existing works
by the Company and the acquisition of certain lands acquired by
the Company for the purposes of their water undertaking should
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be confirmed and that the limits within which the Company A.D. 1912
may supply should be extended and that further powers should
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be conferred on the Company with reference to the purchase or
lease of additional lands and the acquisition of water rights and
that such other provisions as are in this Act contained should
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be made with reference to the Company and their water under-
taking :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to raise additional capital for the purposes of this
Act and the general purposes of their undertaking and to apply
their funds to those purposes :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines situations
and levels of the new works authorised by this Act and the
lands to be acquired under this Act with a book of reference
to those plans containing the names of the owners and
or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of such
lands were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace for the
county of Stafford and are hereinafter respectively referred to
as the deposited plans sections and book of reference :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
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
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and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows :—
1.
This Act may be cited as the Staffordshire Potteries Short title
Waterworks Act 1912. •
2.
This Act and the Acts described in the Pirst Schedule Citation of
to this Act as altered and amended by this Act may be cited Actrf-
together as the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Acts 1853
to 1912.
3.
The following Acts and parts of Acts (so far as the Incorpora-
same are applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent tlon ° c fc
with the provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with
this Act (namely):
The Lands Clauses Acts;
The Waterworks Clauses Acts 1847 and 1863 subject as
respects the former of these Acts to the exception in
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