Wey Valley Water Act 1940

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Citation1940 c. xxxiii
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&
4 GEO. 6. Wey
Vcdley Water
Act, 1940.
Ch.
xxxiii.
CHAPTER xxxiii.
An Act to empower the Wey Valley Water Com-
pany to construct further works and to raise
additional capital to extend their limits of supply
to confer additional powers upon the Company
and for other purposes. [10th July 1940.}
W
HEREAS by the Wey Valley Frimley and Farn-
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ham Water Act 1898 the Wey Valley Water Vict.
Company (hereinafter referred to as " the Company
")
e- eclx-
were incorporated and were authorised to supply water
within the limits therein described:
Arid whereas further powers in relation to their
undertaking were conferred upon the Company by
subsequent Acts and Orders and in pursuance thereof
the Company are now supplying water within certain
parishes and places in the counties of Surrey
Southampton and West Sussex:
And whereas it is expedient that the supplies of
water at present available to the Company should be
increased and that the Company should be empowered
to make and maintain the new works in this Act
mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient that the limits for the
supply of water by the Company should be extended
so as to include further areas in the counties of
Southampton and Surrey as by this Act provided:
And whereas the County of Southampton Review
Order 1932 the Surrey Review Order 1933 and the
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Ch. XXXiii. Wey Valley Water 3
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GEO.
6.
Act, 1940.
West Sussex Review Order 1933 made by the Minister
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20 of Health in pursuance of section 46 of the Local
Geo;
5.
Government Act 1929 altered various local government
c- 17- areas in the counties of Southampton Surrey and West
Sussex respectively and it is expedient that the limits
for the supply of water by the Company should be
re-defined:
And whereas a statement of the authorised share
and loan capital of the Company is set forth in the
First Schedule to this Act and it is expedient that the
Company should be empowered to raise further moneys
for the purposes of this Act and for the general
purposes of their undertaking:
And whereas it is expedient that such further
provisions should be made with respect to the Company
and their undertaking as are in this Act contained:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be
attained without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections of the works
authorised by this Act showing the lines and levels
thereof and a book of reference to the plans 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 county council of Southampton and those plans
sections and book of reference 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.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Wey Valley
Water Act 1940 and the Wey Valley Water Acts and
Orders 1898 to 1934 and this Act may be cited together
and are in this Act referred to as the Wey Valley Water
Acts and Orders 1898 to 1940.
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Short and
collective
titles.
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&
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GEO.
6. Wey
Valley Water
Act, 1940.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Works.
Part III.—Lands.
Part IV.—Supply of water.
Ch. xxxiii.
follows:
Part V.—Transfer of communication pipes.
Part VI.—Finance.
PART I
cont.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
Part VII.—Administrative and miscellaneous.
3.—(1)
The following Acts and parts of Acts (so incorpora-
far as the same are applicable for the purposes and are tion of
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) are general
hereby incorporated with this Act
(namely):
Acts-
(a) The Lands Clauses Acts Provided always
that any question of disputed compensation
under this Act or any Act incorporated
herewith (other than a question required to
be determined by two justices) shall be deter-
mined by a single arbitrator to be agreed upon
between the Company and the person claiming
the compensation or in default of such agree-
ment appointed by the Minister of Health on
the application of either party;
(b) The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act
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Vict.
1845 (except the provisions relating to. the c. 16.
conversion of borrowed money into capital)
and Part I (relating to cancellation and
surrender of shares) Part II (relating to
additional capital) except the provisions
thereof which limit the rate of dividend on
preference capital and Part III (relating to
debenture stock) of the Companies Clauses 26
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27
Act 1863 as amended by subsequent Acts; Viet.
(c) The Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 except the
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words "with the consent in writing of the vict.
"owner or reputed owner of any such house e. 17.
" or of the agent of such owner
"
in section
44;
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(d) The Waterworks Clauses Act
1863.
Viet.
e. 93.
(2) Sections 127 to 132 of the Lands Clauses
8 & 9
Viet.
Consolidation Act 1845 relating to the sale of super- e. 18.
fluous lands shall not apply to any land which is now
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