West Hartlepool Corporation Act 1931
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GEO.
5.] West
Hartlepool
[Ch.
ciii.]
Corporation
Act, 1931.
CHAPTER ciii.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the county A.D.
1931.
borough of West Hartlepool to confer further —
powers upon the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of that borough with regard to their road
transport and electricity undertakings and the
health local government and improvement of
the borough and for other purposes.
[31st July 1931.]
W
HEREAS the existing borough of West Hartlepool
(in the preamble to this Act called " the borough ")
is a county borough under the government of the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough (hereinafter
cal ed " the Corporation ") and the Corporation acting
by the council of the borough are the sanitary authority
for the borough with the powers and obligations of an
urban sanitary authority :
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the local
Acts specified in Part I of the schedule to this Act and
of the Orders specified in Part II of that schedule are in
force in the borough:
And whereas the parishes of Throston Rural Stranton
and Seaton in the rural district of Hartlepool in the
administrative county of Durham immediately adjoin
the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend
the boundaries of the borough so as to include therein
so much of the parishes of Throston Rural Stranton
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and Seaton as is coloured respectively blue brown and
— purple on the borough map referred to in this Act and
to alter and extend the boundaries of the parish of
West Hartlepool so as to include therein the said parts
of parishes :
And whereas the Corporation are operating a road
transport undertaking within and beyond the borough
and it is expedient to make further provision in regard
to that undertaking:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of
the undertaking wrhereby the borough and certain
areas in the neighbourhood thereof are supplied with
electricity and it is expedient to make further provision
with regard to the electricity undertaking of the
Corporation as is in this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to make further and
better provision with regard to the health local
government and improvement of the borough (including
the areas added thereto by this Act) and that the
powers of the Corporation with regard thereto should
be enlarged as is in this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to make further
provision with regard to the finances of the Corporation
and the application of revenue from their undertakings:
And whereas it is expedient that the other
provisions contained in this Act be enacted :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be
attained without the authority of Parliament:
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 :
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 (that is to say):—
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I.
PKELIMINABY.
iort title. 1. This Act may be cited as the West Hartlepool
Corporation Act 1931.
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GEO.
5.] West Hartlepool [Ch.
ciii.]
Corporation Act, 1931.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :— A.D. 1931.
Part I.—Preliminary.
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Part II.—Extension of borough. Act into
. Part III.—Road transport. Parts-
Part IV.—Electricity.
Part V.—Streets buildings and drains.
Part VI.—Infectious disease and sanitary
matters.
Part VII.—Financial provisions.
Part VIII.—Miscellaneous provisions.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts so far as the same are Incorpora-
applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent tionof
with the provisions of this Act are hereby incorporated ^ands
with and form part of this Act (except the provisions
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thereof with respect to the purchase and taking of lands
otherwise than by agreement and except section 127
of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845).
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions Interpreta-
to which meanings are assigned by the Public Health tion.
Acts shall have the same respective meanings unless
there be something in the subject or context repugnant
to such construction.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context
otherwise requires—
" Existing" in relation to any area altered by
this Act means existing immediately before
the appointed day;
" The borough" means until the appointed day
the existing borough of West Hartlepool and
thereafter the existing borough of West Hartle-
pool as extended by this Act;
" The Corporation" means the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough;
" The council" means the council of the borough;
x' The mayor " " the town clerk " " the treasurer " -
" the medical officer " " the surveyor " and
"the sanitary inspector" mean respectively
the mayor the town clerk the treasurer the
medical officer of health the surveyor and any
sanitary inspector of the borough and include
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