Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Act 1884
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1884 c. clxxvii |
| Year | 1884 |
[47 & 48 VICT] Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier [OH. clxxvii.]
Act, 1884.
CHAPTER clxxvii.
An Act for incorporating and conferring powers on the
A.D.
1884
Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Company and for other
purposes [28th July 1884.1
TTT7 HEREAS on the twelfth day of December one thousand eight
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hundred and eighty-three the Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier
Company (Limited) (in this Act called " the limited company")
were duly registered under and in accordance with the provisions of
the Companies Acts 1862 to 1880 as a company limited by shares
and by the memorandum of association of the Company the objects
for which the Company was established were declared to be amongst
others:
(A.)
The construction'of a pier at or near Weston-super-Mare in
the county of Somerset and the approaches thereto and the
construction and execution of such piers breakwaters light-
houses channels wharfs quays storehouses warehouses and other
buildings tramways works and appliances as may be considered
necessary or desirable for the purposes of constructing or main-
taining or improving and the working and using of such pier
and the anchorage adjacent thereto and for facilitating the use
thereof;
(B.)
The maintenance and repair of the pier tramways and other
works and property of the Company;
(c.) The purchasing hiring taking upon lease or otherwise
acquiring all or any part of the shores or foreshores of the
Bristol Channel situate at or near to Weston-super-Mare afore-
said and any lands buildings or property which may be con-
sidered necessary or desirable for the purposes of any works to
be constructed or executed by the Company or otherwise for
the purposes of the Company for any estate term or interest or
any other rights or interests which may be considered necessary
or desirable for any of the purposes aforesaid;
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Clxxvii.] Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier Q47- &-48 VICT.]
Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884.
and the capital of the Company is therein declared to be ninety
thousand pounds divided into nine thousand shares of the nominal
amount of ten pounds each with power by resolution passed at an
extraordinary' meeting of the Company to increase the capital to any
amount not exceeding two hundred thousand pounds :
And whereas it is expedient that the limited company should be
dissolved and reconstituted and incorporated under the provisions
of this Act and that the Company so reconstituted (herein-after
referred to as " the Company ") should be authorised to construct
the pier at Weston-super-Mare in the county of Somerset in this
Act described and for that purpose to take and acquire lands com-
pulsorily and to carry into effect the other objects of this Act:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the pier and works authorised by this Act and also books 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
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were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of
Somerset and are herein-after respectively referred to as "the deposited
plans sections and books of reference " :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
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. Weston
Act 1884.
Incorpora- 2, The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 Part I.
tionof
Acts,
(cancellation and surrender of shares) andPartlll. (debenture stock)
of the Companies Clauses Act 1863 as amended by the Com-
panies Clauses Act 1869 the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts
1845 1860 and 1869 as amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire)
Act 1883 and the Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 are
(except where expressly varied by this Act) incorporated with
and form part of this Act provided that the provisions of the
Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 with respect to
lifeboats and with respect to keeping a tide and weather gauge
shall not come into operation as parts of this Act unless and until
and except so far only as the Board of Trade from time to time
require 2
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