Tynemouth Corporation Act 1934

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Citation1934 c. lxxvi
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5.] Tynemouth [Ch.
lxxvi.]
Corporation Act, 1934.
CHAPTER lxxvi.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and
A.D.
1934.
burgesses of the borough of Tynemouth to
construct additional waterworks and a street
improvement to confer further powers upon
them and make further provision with respect to
their water and electricity undertakings to
make further provision for the health local
government improvement and finance of the
borough and for other purposes.
[25th July 1934.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Tynemouth in the county
of Northumberland (hereinafter referred to as
" the borough ") is a county borough under the govern-
ment of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the
borough (hereinafter referred to as " the Corporation ") :
And whereas extensive powers with regard to the
supply of water and electricity and certain other under-
takings and with regard to the improvement and govern-
ment of the borough have been conferred upon the
Corporation by the Acts and Orders specified in Parts I
and II of the First Schedule to this Act which Acts and
Orders are hereinafter referred to collectively as " the
local Acts " and each of them separately as an Act or
Order of the year in which it was passed into law or
came into force :
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of a
water undertaking from which they are (under and in
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lXXVi.] Tynemouth [24 & 25
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5.]
Corporation Act, 1934.
A.D.
1934. pursuance of the provisions of certain of the local Acts)
required to and do supply and distribute water within
the borough and within certain districts outside the
borough and from which they are (under and in pur-
suance of the provisions of certain of the. local Acts
and of certain agreements referred to in this Act) also
required to supply and in certain cases do supply water""
in bulk to the local authorities of other districts in
the neighbourhood of the borough for distribution by
them:
And whereas the districts outside the borough within
which the Corporation are required to and do supply and
distribute water are the urban district of Whitley and
Monkseaton and the urban district of Ashington:
And whereas the districts outside the borough to the
local authorities of which the Corporation are required to
and either do or may be called upon to supply water in
bulk for distribution by them are the Bedlingtonshire
Urban District the Cramlington Urban District the
Seaton Delaval Urban District the Newbiggin-by-the-
Sea Urban District the Morpeth Rural District (for the
supply of the parishes of Ulgham Widdrington East
Chevington Ellington Lynemouth and Pegswood) and
the borough of Morpeth (hereinafter referred to as
" the bulk supply districts "):
And whereas in the case of certain of the bulk supply
districts it is provided by certain provisions of the local
Acts that as from the thirtieth day of September one
thousand nine hundred and thirty-four such supplies
shall be paid for by the local authorities of the said
respective districts at the cost to the Corporation of
providing and affording the same and it is expedient
that the provisions of this Act with respect to the
ascertainment of such cost and otherwise in connection
therewith should be enacted:
And whereas for the before mentioned and other
purposes and in order to ensure that so far as practicable
the water undertaking shall be carried on without loss
and without profit to the Corporation it is expedient that
the rates charges and prices at which the Corporation are
or may be required to supply water be altered increased
and provided for as enacted in this Act:
And whereas by the Tynemouth Corporation (Water)
Act 1898 the Corporation * were authorised to construct
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certain waterworks including an impounding reservoir A.D. 1934.
in the county of Northumberland to be called the Font
reservoir for the purpose of taking collecting diverting
impounding and using the waters of the river Font and
its tributaries and by section 28 (For protection of mill-
owners and others) of that Act the Corporation are
required at all times to cause to pass into the river
Font not less than one hundred and sixty-seven cubic.
feet of water per minute :
And whereas the Font reservoir has been completed
and the waters impounded thereby are now being
supplied by the Corporation for the purposes of their
water undertaking:
And whereas the demand for water within the
limits of supply of the Corporation and for supply by
them of water in bulk has increased is increasing and is
likely further to increase and it is expedient that the.
obligations of the Corporation in regard to the discharge
of compensation water into the said river should be
varied as by this Act provided:
And whereas the Corporation have entered into an
agreement with the owners lessees and occupiers of all
the mills and works upon the river Font southward of
the embankment of the Font reservoir to its junction
with the river Wansbeck and all other persons interested
as riparian owners in the waters which by the said
Act of 1898 the Corporation are entitled to take and
use being riparian owners upon the said portion of the
river Font to pay compensation to them instead of dis-
charging compensation water under the Act of 1898 as
amended by this Act and a copy of the said agreement
is set forth in the Third Schedule to this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
be authorised to construct the additional waterworks
described in this Act and to acquire lands therefor and
that the other provisions contained in this Act with
respect to the water undertaking should be enacted:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
should be empowered to construct the street improve-
ment by this Act authorised and to acquire lands for
the purposes thereof and for other purposes :
And whereas it is expedient that further powers
should be conferred upon the Corporation with reference
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