Stockton-on-Tees Corporation Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. xcvi |
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Corporation Act, 1925.
CHAPTER xcvi.
An Act to provide for the purchase of the under-
A.D.
1925.
taking and business of the Haverton Hill-
on-Tees Gas Company Limited by the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough of
Stockton-on-Tees to extend the areas of supply
for gas and electricity of the Stockton-on-Tees
Corporation to confer further powers on the
Corporation with regard to the supply of gas
and electricity and the consolidation of rates
and for other purposes. [7th August 1925.]
W
HEREAS the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
the borough of Stockton-on-Tees (in this Act
called " the Corporation ") supply gas within and in the
neighbourhood of the borough of Stockton-on-Tees herein-
after called " the borough ") :
And whereas the Haverton Hill-on-Tees Gas Company
Limited (hereinafter called " the company ") supply gas in
part of the urban district of Billingham adjacent to the
existing limits for the supply of gas of the Corporation :
And whereas the company have agreed with the
Corporation for the transfer of their undertaking and
business to the Corporation and it is expedient that the
agreement (a copy of which is set forth in the First
Schedule to this Act) should be confirmed and that
provision should be made for carrying it into effect and
that power should be conferred upon the Corporation
as is in this Act contained in relation to the said under-
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Corporation Act, 1925.
A.D.
1925. taking and that the limits of the Corporation for the
supply of gas should be extended and the powers of the
Corporation with regard to the supply of gas should be
increased as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to extend the area of the
Corporation with regard to the supply of electricity and
to increase the powers of the Corporation with regard to
the supply of electricity as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to appoint the Corpora-
tion acting by the council overseers of the township of
Stockton-on-Tees and to make provision for the consolida-
tion of the rates levied in the borough :
And whereas it is expedient that the- other provisions
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 :— £
For gas mains pipes and apparatus - 9,300
For working capital for the quay under-
taking 6,000
For mains wires and apparatus in con-
nection with the supply of electricity 12,000
For working capital for the electricity
undertaking - - - - . - 10,000
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 :
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 :—
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Stockton-on-
Tees Corporation Act 1925,
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Corporation Act, 1925.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :— A.D. 1925.
Part I.-Preliminary. DM— of
Part II.—Transfer of undertaking of Haverton Act into
Hill-on-Tees Gas Company Limited. Parts.
Part III.—Supply of gas.
Part IV.—Supply of electricity.
Part V.—Rating provisions.
Part VI.—Financial and miscellaneous pro-
visions.
3.
The following Acts and parts of Acts (so far as Incorpora-
the same are applicable for the purposes and are not in- tion of Acts-
consistent with the provisions of this Act) are hereby
incorporated with this Act (namely):—
(1) The Lands Clauses Acts except section 127 of
the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
(relating to the sale of superfluous lands) and
except the provisions with respect to the taking
of lands otherwise than by agreement;
(2) The Gasworks Clauses Act 1847 (except the
provisions with respect to the amount of profit
to be received by the undertakers when the
gasworks are carried on for their benefit and
with respect to the yearly receipt and expendi-
ture of the undertakers) Provided that section
13 of that Act shall be read as if the words
" or any premises" were inserted after the
words " private building " and as if the words
" Provided also that every such contract entered
" into by the Corporation shall be alike in
" terms and amount under like circumstances
" and for the same purposes to all consumers "
were added at the end of that section; and
(3) The Gasworks Clauses Act 1871 (except sections
7 8 and 35 thereof);
(4) The provisions contained in the schedule to the
Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 as amended
by the Electricity (Supply) Acts 1909 to 1922.
4.
In this Act the several words and expressions Interpreta-
to which meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or tion.
partially incorporated herewith or by the Public Health
Acts have the same respective meanings unless there be
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