Surrey County Council Act 1931
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1931 c. ci |
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Council
Act, 1931.
CHAPTER ci.
An Act to confer further powers on the Surrey
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County Council and to enact further provisions
with respect to the good government and
administration and the preservation of the
amenities of the administrative county of
Surrey to enact provisions with respect to the
control of massage establishments places of
public entertainment sale of coke moveable
dwellings and camping grounds town planning
and roads within the county to authorise the
Council and the Barnes Urban District Council
to construct street works and for other
purposes. [31st July 1931.]
W
HEREAS by the Surrey County Council Act 1925
powers were conferred on the Surrey County
Council (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") with
respect to (inter alia) the prevention of pollution of
streams places used for public dancing singing or music
town planning and main and arterial roads within the
administrative county of Surrey :
And whereas by the Local Government Act 1929
and other public general Acts passed since 1925 the
duties and obligations of the Council have been much
enlarged and in particular with respect to the maintenance
of roads and town planning :
And whereas owing to the rapid and continuing
increase of the population of the county and the building
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development therein and the traffic on the roads in the
— county the amenities of the county are being injured and
there is grave risk of further serious injury being caused :
And whereas for better enabling the Council to carry
out their statutory duties and obligations and to preserve
the amenities of and to secure the good and orderly
government of the county it is expedient to confer on the
Council further powers and to enact further provisions as
in this Act contained with respect to the acquisition and
user of lands the protection of streams the control of
establishments used for massage or special treatment and
of places used for certain classes of public entertainments
the sale of coke moveable dwellings and camping grounds
the construction of roads town planning and building
development and the prevention of acts tending to injure
rural amenities :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Council
and the Barnes Urban District Council (hereinafter
referred to as " the Barnes Council ") to construct street
works and to acquire lands for that purpose and for other
purposes as in this Act mentioned :
And whereas it is expedient to confer further powers
on the Council and the Barnes Council with respect to
the borrowing of money and to enact other financial
provisions as in this Act contained :
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
of 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
Council and the Barnes Council for the purposes herein-
after mentioned which estimates are as follows :—
For the purchase of lands for and in con- £
nection with the street works autho-
rised by Part IX of this Act - - 28,000
For the construction of those street works
and the works connected therewith - 15,000
And whereas the several works included in those
estimates are permanent works and it is expedient that
the costs thereof
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
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Act 1872 so far as applicable to the Council have been
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observed by them : —
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines
and levels of the street works authorised by Part IX
of this Act the plans showing also the lands liable to be
taken compulsorily under the powers of that Part and a
book of reference to the plans 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 Part IX
of this Act were duly deposited with the clerk to the
council and are in that Part 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:—
PAET I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Surrey County Short and
Council
Act 1931. collective
(2) The Act of 1925 and this Act may together be
cited as the Surrey County Council Acts 1925 and 1931.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:— Acfc
divided
into
Parts.
Part 1.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Protection of streams.
Part IV.—Establishments for massage and
special treatment.
Part V.—Control of public entertainments.
Part VI.—Sale of coke &c.
Part VII.—Moveable dwellings and camping
grounds.
Part VIII.—Roads town planning and amenities.
Part IX.—Barnes street works.
Part X.—Finance.
Part XI.—Barnes financial provisions,
Part XII.—Miscellaneous.
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