Walsall Corporation Act 1969
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Walsall Corporation
Act
1969
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An Act to re-enact with amendments and to extend certain
local enactments in force in the county borough of
Walsall; to make further provision for the health, local
government, improvement and finances of that
borough; to confer further powers upon the mayor,
aldermen and burgesses of that borough; and for other
purposes. [22nd October 1969]
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HEREAS—
(1) By virtue of the West Midlands Order, 1965 (hereinafter s.i. 1965'2139.
referred to as " the Order of 1965 "), the county borough of
Walsall was altered on the 1st April, 1966, so as to consist of
an area shown by a continuous red line on the boundary maps
referred to in article 4 of the Order of 1965 and being—
(a) with alterations the area of the county borough of
Walsall;
(b) with alterations the areas of the urban districts of
Darlaston and Willenhall in the administrative county
of Stafford;
(c) parts of the county boroughs of West Bromwich and
Wolverhampton;
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(d) parts of the boroughs of Bilston and Wednesbury and
the urban districts of Aldridge, Coseley and Wednesfield
in the said administrative county; and
(e) parts of the parish of Essington in the rural district of
Cannock in the said administrative county;
as they existed immediately before the 1st April, 1966:
(2) Numerous local enactments were in force in parts of the
said area and by article 51 of the Order of 1965 it was provided
that the provisions of any such enactment should continue to
apply to those parts of that area except that certain specified
enactments were extended to apply to the whole of the county
borough of Walsall as altered by the Order of 1965 (hereinafter
referred to as " the borough "):
(3) It was further provided by the said article 51 that the said
local enactments should on the 31st December, 1970, cease to
have effect:
(4) It is expedient that certain of the said enactments should
be re-enacted with amendments and applied to the whole of the
borough:
(5) It is expedient at the same time to extend and enlarge in
various respects the powers of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses
of the borough (hereinafter referred to as " the Corporation ")
and to make further provision in regard to the health, local
government, improvement and finances of the borough:
(6) Certain premises in the borough known as
44 Walsingham Street have for many years been under the control
of the Corporation, but the Corporation have been unable to
ascertain to whom the said premises belong and it is expedient
that the said premises should be acquired by the Corporation
subject to the provisions of this Act:
(7) It is expedient that the Corporation should be enabled to
acquire or appropriate and use for highway purposes a portion
of the public walks and pleasure grounds forming part of the
Arboretum, a portion of the open space known as Elmore Green
and a portion of the buiial ground of the church of All Saints,
Bloxwich, all in the borough:
(8) It is expedient that burials in the Queen Street Cemetery
of the Corporation should be wholly discontinued and that the
powers contained in this Act with respect to the use thereof
should
be enacted:
(9) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
(10) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(11) Plans showing the lands to b^ acquired, used or dealt with
in accordance with the provisions of this Act and a book of
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reference relating thereto were duly deposited in the office of the
Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords, and in the Private
Bill Office, House of Commons, and with the town clerk of the
borough, which plans and book of reference are in this Act
referred to respectively as the deposited plans and book of
reference:
(12) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act, 1933,1933 c.
51.
have been observed:
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:—
PART
I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Walsall Corporation Act Short title
1969. and commence-
(2) The following provisions of this Act shall be deemed to
have come into operation on the 30th September, 1969:—
(a) Part IV (Transport) and Schedule 1;
(b) so much of section 213 (Repeal) and of Schedule 4 as
provides for the repeal of enactments relating to the
transport undertaking; and
(c) so much of any other provision in this Act as relates to
matters referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this
subsection:
Provided that no proceedings shall be taken in respect of any
offences created by or under the said provisions committed
before the passing of this Act.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:— Division of
Part I.—Preliminary. Parts
Part II.—Heating undertaking.
Part III.—Markets.
Part IV.—Transport.
Part V.—Lands.
Part VI.—Streets.
Part VII.—Sanitation and buildings.
Part VIII.—Nuisances.
Part IX.—Food.
Part
X.—Parks,
cemeteries and other municipal property.
Part XL—Public order and public safety.
Part XIL—Cultural activities.
Part XIII.—Finance and superannuation.
Part XIV.—Miscellaneous.
Part XV.—General.
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