Stockport Corporation Act 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1971 c. l |
Stockport Corporation
Act
1971
a
1
ELIZABETH H
1971 CHAPTER 1
An Act to confer further powers on the mayor, aldermen
and burgesses of the county borough of Stockport; to
make further provision with regard to the local
government and the health, welfare, improvement and
finances of the borough; and for other purposes.
[27th July 1971]
V¥7HEREAS—
(1)
The
borough
of
Stockport (hereinafter called
" the
borough
") is a
county borough under
the
government
of the
mayor, aldermen
and
burgesses (hereinafter called
"the
Corporation
") of
the borough:
(2)
It is
expedient that further
and
better provision should
be
made with reference
to
lands, buildings, streets
and
markets,
the
operation
of
hackney carriage services, public order
and
safety,
and
the
improvement
of the
finances
and
administration
of the
borough:
(3)
It
is expedient that the powers
of
the Corporation
in
regard
to the foregoing should be enlarged and extended, and that further
provision be made,
as in
this
Act
provided:
2 c.
1 Stockport Corporation
Act
1971
(4) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(5) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
1933
c.
51.
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:—
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
Short
title.
Division
into
Parts.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Stockport
1971.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:-
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Fire precautions.
Part III.—Lands and buildings.
Part IV.—Streets.
Part V.—Hackney carriages, etc.
Part VI.—Markets.
Part VII.—Public order and public safety.
Part VIII.—Finance.
Part IX.—Administration.
Part X.—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise
requires, words and expressions to which meanings are assigned
by
section
343
of the Act of
1936have the same respective
meanings,
and—
" the Act of 1933 " means the Local Government Act
1933;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" the Act of
1957
" means the Housing Act 1957;
" the Act of 1959 " means the Highways Act 1959;
"the Act of 1967" means the Road Traffic Regulation
Act 1967;
1936 c.
1957 c.
1959 c.
1967 c.
49.
56.
25.
76.
Stockport Corporation
Act
1971
c.
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3
" apparatus" includes mains, pipes, electrical lines or works PART I
(as respectively defined in the Electric Lighting Act 1882) —com.
belonging to or maintained by statutory undertakers,
1882
c.
56.
and works constructed for the lodging therein of
apparatus, and includes any telegraphic line belonging to
or used by the Post Office;
"the appointed day" has the meaning assigned to that
expression in section 121 (The appointed day) of this
Act;
" the borough " means the county borough of Stockport;
" bulk refuse container" means a container for refuse of
not less than
1
cubic yard nominal capacity, designed or
adapted to be emptied by mechanical means into a
refuse vehicle of the Corporation or to be removed by a
vehicle of
the
Corporation for emptying;
" contravention" includes a failure to comply, and
"contravene" shall be construed accordingly;
"
the
Corporation " means the mayor, aldermen and burgesses
of the borough, acting by the council;
" the council " means the council of the borough;
" daily fine " means a fine for each day on which an offence
is continued after conviction
thereof;
" 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 in the borough;
" the general rate fund " and " the general rate " mean
respectively the general rale fund and the general rate
of the borough;
" in " in a context referring to apparatus includes under,
over, across, along or upon;
"magistrates' court" has the same meaning as in the
Magistrates' Courts Act 1952;
1952
c.
55.
" Minister of the Crown " has the same meaning as in the
Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act
1946;
1946 c
31.
" operational land " in relation to the Post Office has the
same meaning as in paragraph 93 (4) of Schedule 4 to
the Post Office Act 1969 and, in relation to statutory
1969
c.
48.
undertakers other than the Post Office, means land
which is used for the purpose of the carrying on of their
undertaking and land in which an interest is held for that
purpose, not being land which, in respect of its nature
and situation, is comparable rather with land in general
than with land which is used, or in which interests are
held, for the purpose of the carrying on of statutory
undertakings;
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