Wallasey Corporation Act 1927

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1927 c. cxxii
Year1927
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Wallasey Corporation
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Act, 1927.
CHAPTER cxxii.
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Act to authorise the mayor aldermen and
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burgesses of the borough of Wallasey to con-
struct a tramway promenades street improve-
ments and other works and to provide and work
trolley vehicles and to acquire the undertaking
of the New Brighton Pier Company to confer
further powers upon the Corporation with refer-
ence to their ferries gas water electricity tram-
way and omnibus undertakings and the health
local government and improvement of the borough
to alter the boundaries of the borough and for
other purposes. [22nd December 1927.]
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HEREAS the borough of Wallasey (herein referred
to as " the existing borough ") is a county borough
under the government of the mayor aldermen and bur-
gesses of the existing borough (herein referred to as " the
Corporation "):
And whereas by the Wallasey Tramways and Im-
provements Act 1899 the Wallasey Tramways and
Improvements Act 1906 and the Wallasey Tramways
and Improvements Act 1909 the Corporation were
empowered to construct maintain and work the tram-
ways therein referred to and it is expedient to empower
them to construct maintain and work the additional
tramway in the borough referred to in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corpo-
ration to provide and work mechanically propelled
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vehicles adapted for use upon roads without rails and
moved by electrical power transmitted thereto from some
external source (in this Act called " trolley vehicles "):
And whereas powers with regard to the running
of omnibuses were conferred upon the Corporation by
the Wallasey Corporation Act 1920 and it is expedient
to make further provision with reference to the running
of omnibuses by the Corporation:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corpo-
ration to construct the promenades new roads street
improvements and other works referred to in this Act:
And whereas under and by virtue of the New Brighton
Pier Act 1864 the New Brighton Pier Company were
incorporated and empowered to construct the pier in
the borough which is known as " the New Brighton
Pier " :
And whereas the New Brighton Pier Company have
agreed to transfer to the Corporation the New Brighton
Pier and the undertaking of the said company in relation
thereto and it is expedient to make provision for effecting
such transfer and for conferring powers upon the Corpo-
ration in relation to the undertaking so transferred
to them:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the
undertakings for supplying the existing borough with
gas water and electrical energy and it is expedient to
make further provision in regard to those undertakings:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision
in regard to streets and buildings in the borough and
that the powers of the Corporation in regard to the health
local government and improvement of the borough be
enlarged as by this Act provided:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the local
Acts specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to tbis
Act and of the Orders specified in Part II of that schedule
are in force in the existing borough :
And whereas the existing townships of Moreton and
Bidston-cum-Ford in the Wirral Rural District imme-
diately adjoin the existing borough and one another:
And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the
boundaries of the existing borough so as to include
within the borough the said township of Moreton and
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the part of the said township of Bidston-cum-Ford
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referred to in this Act:
And whereas the existing borough is co-extensive
with the existing township of Wallasey and it is expedient
to alter and extend the boundaries of the existing town-
ship of Wallasey so as to include within that township
the township of Moreton and the said part of the township
of Bidston-cum-Ford:
And whereas it is expedient subject to the provisions
set forth in this Act to extend the limits of the Corporation
for the supply of gas water and electricity to include
the existing borough as extended by this Act and to
authorise them also to supply gas in that portion of the
township of Bidston-cum-Ford which is referred to in
this Act:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of a
ferries undertaking and it is expedient to make further
provision as to the tolls rates and charges which the
Corporation may take for the use of their ferries and
steamboats:
And whereas by the Wallasey Corporation Act 1920
the rates of the existing borough were consolidated and
it is expedient to make further provision with regard
to the making assessment and collection of rates :
And whereas it is expedient to make further provi-
sion with regard to the finances of the Corporation and
the application of revenue derived from their several
undertakings :
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in 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
Corporation for the purposes hereafter mentioned and
such estimates are as follows :
(a) The construction of the tramway £
authorised by this Act - - - 2,100
(b) The electrical equipment of the said
tramway 150
(c) The provision of trolley vehicles - 11,200
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