Wallasey Corporation Act 1958
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1958 c. l |
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Act, 1958 Ch. 1
CHAPTER 1
An Act to confer further powers upon the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough of Wallasey with reference
to lands and to their undertakings to make further
provision for the improvement health local government
and finances of the borough and for other purposes.
[1st August 1958.]
V¥7HEREAS-
(1) The borough of Wallasey (in this Act called " the borough ")
is a county borough under the government of
the
mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called " the
Corporation"):
(2) It is expedient to confer further powers on the Corporation
and to make further provision with reference to lands and the
undertakings of the Corporation and the improvement health
local government and finances of the borough:
(3) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act be enacted:
(4) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(5) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act 1933
have been observed:
(6) In the month of November nineteen hundred and fifty-
seven a map marked "Wallasey Corporation deposited map"
showing the property in the borough known as the Sandhills and
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the lands in the borough commonly known as Leasowc Common
and as certain common lands at Leasowc was deposited with the
town clerk of the borough and is in this Act referred to as " the
deposited map " and copies of that map were in the same month
deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments House of
Lords and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons
respectively:
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 Parliament assembled
and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):—
Short title.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
Incorporation
of Lands
Clauses Acts.
Interpretation.
PART
1
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Wallasey Corporation Act
1958.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Water.
Part IV.—Streets.
Part V.—Sanitation and buildings.
Part VI.—Nuisances.
Part VII.—Infectious diseases.
Part VIII.—Food.
Part IX.—Movable dwellings and camping grounds.
Part X.—Parks cemeteries and other municipal property.
Part XL—Public order and public safety.
Part XII.—Weights and measures.
Part XIII.—Premises used for sales by auction.
Part XIV.—Ferries.
Part XV.—Finance and rating.
Part XVI.—Miscellaneous.
Part XVII.—General.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts except sections 127 to 132 and
150 and 151 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (so far
as the same are applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with and
form part of this Act.
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions to which
meanings are assigned by sections 90 110 and 343 of the Public
Health Act 1936 have the same respective meanings unless
there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction.
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(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise PART I
requires— —cont.
" the Act of 1933" means the Local Government Act
1933;
" the Act of 1936 " means the Public Health Act 1936;
" the Act of 1947 " means the Town and Country Planning
Act 1947:
" the Act of 1950 " means the Public Utilities Street Works
Act 1950;
" the appointed day " has the meaning assigned to it by
section 215 (The appointed day) of this Act;
" authorised security " means any mortgage stock bond or
other security which the Corporation are for the time
being authorised to grant create or issue or upon or by
means of which the Corporation are for the time being
authorised to raise money;
" the borough " means the county borough of Wallasey;
" the commission " means the British Transport Commission;
" contravention" includes a failure to comply and
" contravene" shall be construed accordingly;
" the Corporation " means the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough;
" the council " means the council of the borough;
" daily fine " means a fine for each day on which an offence
is continued after conviction;
" the deposited map " means the map referred to in the
preamble to this Act;
" dock board" means the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board;
" dock estate " means—
(a) the present or future docks basins locks cuts
entrances graving docks quays piers warehouses
sheds roads lands and other works belonging to or
under the management of the dock board and situate
on or being lands at the passing of this Act belonging
to or under the management of the dock board; and
(b) any lands acquired by the dock board after the
passing of this Act and used mainly by them for the
purpose of their statutory duties;
" dock undertaking " means the dock undertaking of the
dock board;
" the electricity board " means the Merseyside and North
Wales Electricity Board;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act or in any
general or local Act and any order byelaw scheme or
regulation for the time being in force within the borough;
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