Wolverhampton Corporation Act 1936
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1936 c. cxi |
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GEO.
5.
& Wolverhampton Corporation
[Ch. CXI.]
1 EDW. 8.] Act, 1936.
CHAPTER cxi.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and
A.D.
1936.
burgesses of the borough of Wolverhampton to
construct street improvements and waterworks
and to acquire lands for those and other
purposes to confer further powers upon them
with regard to the provision and working of
trolley vehicles to provide for the transfer
to the Corporation of the undertaking of the
Wolverhampton General Cemetery Company and
to authorise the establishment of a crematorium
to extend the area for the supply of water by
the Corporation and to make further provision
with regard to their water and electricity under-
takings and the health local government and
improvement of the borough and for other
purposes. [31st July 1936.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Wolverhampton in the
county of Stafford (in this Act called "the
borough ") is a county borough under the government
of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough
(hereinafter called " the Corporation "):
And whereas it is expedient to empower the
Corporation to construct the street works which are
referred to in this Act:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of
the waterworks for supplying and are supplying water
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CXi.] Wolverhampton Corporation [26
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Act, 1936. 1 EDW. 8.]
A.D.
1936. within the borough and the neighbourhood thereof
— and powers in regard to their waterworks and to such
supply are conferred upon the Corporation by the
32 & 33
Vict.
Wolverhampton Improvement Act 1869 and by the
c cxxxi. several local Acts and Orders confirmed by Parliament
amending or extending that Act:
And whereas the supply of water from the present
waterworks of the Corporation is inadequate to meet
the growing demands of the inhabitants within the
limits of the Corporation for the supply of water and
it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
construct the waterworks referred to in this Act and
that the other provisions contained in this Act with
reference to those works should be enacted :
And whereas it is expedient to extend the limits
of the Corporation for the supply of water and to
make further provision as in this Act contained in
regard to their water undertaking and the supply of
water by them :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the
Corporation to purchase the lands referred to in this
Act for the purposes of the said street works and
waterworks for market purposes and for the several
further purposes which are referred to in this Act:
18 &
19 And whereas by the Wolverhampton Corporation
Geo.
5. Act 1928 the Corporation were empowered to con-
c. cix. struct certain street works referred to therein and to
acquire lands for and in connection therewith but in
certain cases such lands have not yet been acquired
and it is expedient to revive the power to acquire such
lands where the same has expired and in other cases
to extend the time within which such acquisition may
take place :
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of and
are working systems of trolley vehicles within the
borough and in the neighbourhood thereof and it is
expedient to empower the Corporation to use and run
trolley vehicles along the further routes which are
referred to in this Act:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of
the undertaking whereby the borough and certain
areas in the neighbourhood thereof are supplied with
electricity and it is expedient to confer further powers
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GEO.
5. & Wolverhampton Corporation [Ch. Cxi.]
1 EDW. 8.] Act, 1936.
upon the Corporation with reference to their electricity A.D. 1936.
undertaking and the supply of electricity by them : —
And whereas it is expedient to make further
provision in regard to the markets undertaking of the
Corporation:
And whereas the Wolverhampton General Cemetery
Company was incorporated by the Wolverhampton
10 & 11
Vict.
General Cemetery Act 1847 by which Act the said c- cclxxxv.
company was authorised to establish a general cemetery
for the interment of the dead in the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the
transfer to the Corporation from the said company
of the undertaking of the said company together with
its rights powers and privileges and subject to such
transfer to make provision for and in connection with
the winding up of the said company :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the
Corporation to establish a crematorium on the lands
which are described in this Act and which form part
of the said cemetery :
And whereas the Corporation have adopted the
Local Government and Other Officers' Superannuation
12 &
13
Act 1922 and it is expedient to enact the further ^°-5-c- 59.
provisions which are in this Act contained with regard
to the payment of superannuation allowances by the
Corporation and as to the conditions under which
allowances and other payments may be paid or made
to officers and servants of the Corporation and to the
dependants of such officers and servants:
And whereas it is expedient to make further and
better provision in regard to the health local govern-
ment and improvement of the borough and to enlarge
the powers of the Corporation with regard thereto as
provided in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the provisions
with regard to the finances of the Corporation which
are contained in this Act should be made and that the
Corporation should be empowered to borrow moneys
for the purposes of this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the other
provisions contained in this Act be enacted:
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