Victoria Park Approach Act 1858
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1858 c. xxxviii |
| Year | 1858 |
ANNO VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORIA', REGINIE.
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Cap.
xxxviii.
An Act to authorize the Metropolitan Board of
Works to form an improved Communication
between
Limehouse
and the
Victoria Park
in
the County of
Middlesex ;
and for other Pur-
poses.
[14th
June
1858.]
W
HEREAS it would be of great public Utility if a con-
venient Communication were opened between the
East
India Dock Road,
in the Parish of
Saint Anne, Limehouse,
at
or near its Junction with the
West India Dock Road,
and the
South End of the
Victoria Park,
in the Parish of
Saint Matthew,
Bethnal Green,
all in the County of
Middlesex :
And whereas such
Communication might be provided by the Formation of the new
Street and other Works herein-after described, and the Improvement
of certain Portions of the Road called
Grove Road :
And whereas by
an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled
An Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, in
this
Act called the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, the
Metropolitan Board of Works were empowered to make, widen, or
improve any Streets, Roads, or Ways for facilitating the Passage and
Traffic between various Parts of the Metropolis, or to contribute
and join with any Persons in any such Improvements as aforesaid,
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21° VICTORLIE,
Cap.xxxviii.
Victoria Park Approach Act,
1858.
8 & 9 Vict.
c. 18. incor-
porated.
Short Title.
Interpreta-
tion of
Words.
and to take by Agreement or Gift any Land, Right in Land or
Property, for the Purposes aforesaid, or otherwise for the Improve-
ment of the Metropolis ; provided, that where the estimated Expense
of such Works should exceed Fifty thousand Pounds the same should
not be carried into effect without the Approval of the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and that no such
Works should be commenced where the estimated Expense should
exceed One hundred thousand Pounds without the previous Sanction
of Parliament : And whereas the Metropolitan Board of Works have
caused to be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex
Plans describing the said intended Improvements and the
Lands on the Site of which the same are intended to be made, and
Books of Reference containing the Names of the Owners, Lessees,
and Occupiers of the Land proposed to be taken for the Purposes of
such Improvements, and Sections showing the Levels of such intended
new Street and Improvements : And whereas the Metropolitan Board
of Works are unable to carry into effect the said Improvements
without the Authority of Parliament : 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 Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows ; (that
is to say,)
I.
"
The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,
"
(except such of
the Provisions thereof as are expressly varied by or excepted from
this Act,) is incorporated with and forms Part of this Act ; and the
Expression " the Promoters of the Undertaking " in such Act means
for the Purposes of this Act the Metropolitan Board of Works.
II.
In citing this Act for any Purpose it shall be sufficient to use
the Expression "Victoria
Park
Approach Act, 1858."
III.
In this Act the following Words and Expressions shall have
the several Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be some-
thing in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction ;
(that is to say,)
The Word " Justice " shall mean Justice of the Peace acting for
the County, Borough, Liberty, or Place where the Matter
requiring the Cognizance of any such Justice shall arise, and
who shall not be interested in the Matter :
When any Matter shall be required to be done before Two Justices,
the Expression " Two Justices " shall be understood to mean
Two Justices assembled and acting together in Petty Sessions :
The Word " Streets" shall include Squares, Streets, Courts,
or
Alleys, Highways, Lanes, Roads, Thoroughfares, or public
Passages or Places_:
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