West Bromwich Corporation Act 1913
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CHAPTER lxix.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses
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of the borough of West Bromwich to provide and work
a trolley vehicle system to provide and work motor
omnibuses to construct street improvements to extend
their powers writh regard to their gas and electricity
undertakings and to the health local government and
improvement of the borough and for other purposes.
[15th August 1913.]
W
HEREAS the borough of West Bromwich in the county
of Stafford (herein-after referred to as "the borough") is
a county borough under the government of the mayor alder-
men and burgesses of the borough (herein-after called "the
Corporation "):
And whereas the Corporation OAvn and lease the tramways
within the borough and it is expedient to authorise them to
provide and work vehicles moved by electrical power transmitted
thereto from some external source and to confer upon the Cor-
poration all necessary powers with regard thereto and also to
enable them to provide and work motor omnibuses within and
without the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Corporation to
execute the street improvements referred to in this Act:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the under-
takings which supply the borough with gas and electricity and
it is expedient to make further, provisions with regard to those
undertakings:
And whereas it is expedient that better provision should be
made with reference to streets buildings sewers and drains within
the borough and that the powers of the Corporation in relation
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to the health local government and improvement of the borough
should be enlarged as by this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act should 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 Corpora-
tion for the purposes herein-after mentioned and such estimates
are as follows:— £
For the provision of trolley vehicles and the elec-
trical equipment and other works necessary for
working trolley vehicles - - - 18,197
For the provision of motor omnibuses - -
8,000
For the purchase of lands for and in connexion
with the construction of street improvements - 15,000
And whereas the works included in such estimates are per-
manent works and it is expedient that the cost thereof should
be spread over a term of years :
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds Acts 1872 and
1903 have been observed and the approval of the Local Govern-
ment Board has been obtained:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works authorised by this Act and a book of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed
owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required
or which may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of
this Act were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace for
the county of Stafford and are in this Act respectively referred
to as the deposited plans sections and book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the King'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.
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the West Bromwich Corporation,
Act 1913. ......
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This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
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Part I.-Preliminary. Divi~; of
Part II.—Tramways and Trolley Vehicles. ^nt0
Part III.—Motor Omnibuses.
Part IV.—Street Improvements.
Part V.—Lands.
Part VI.—Streets Buildings Sewers and Drains.
Part VII.—Infectious Disease and Sanitary Provisions.
Part VIII.—Gas and Electricity.
Part IX.—Finance.
Part X.—Miscellaneous.
3.
The following Acts (so far as the same are applicable Incorpora-
tor the purposes of and are not inconsistent with the provisions tl0n of Acts-
of this Act) are hereby incorporated with this Act:—
The Lands Clauses Acts (except section 127 of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845).
4.
The several words and expressions to which by the Acts lnterpreta.
wholly or partially incorporated with this Act meanings are tl0D-
assigned shall in this Act have the same respective meanings
unless there is something in the subject or context repugnant
to such construction And in this Act unless the subject or
context otherwise requires—
" The Corporation " means the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough of West Bromwich;
" The borough " means the borough of West' Bromwich;
"The council" means the council of the borough;
"The mayor" "the town clerk" "the treasurer" "the
medical officer " " the inspector of nuisances " and " the
surveyor" mean respectively the mayor the town clerk
the treasurer the medical officer of health the inspector
of nuisances and the surveyor of the borough and
respectively include any person duly authorised to dis-
charge temporarily the duties of those offices;
"The borough fund" "the borough rate" "the district
fund " and " the general district rate " mean respectively
the borough fund the borough rate the district fund
and the general district rate of the borough;
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