Wolverhampton Improvement Act 1869
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1869 c. cxxxi |
| Year | 1869 |
[32
& 33
VICT.] The
Wolverhampton,
Improvement [Ch. CXXXi.1
Act, 1S69.
CHAP, cxxxi.
An Act for defining and extending the Powers of the Corpora-
A.D.
1869.
tion of Wolverhampton in relation to the Management of
Streets in the Borough, and to Sewerage, and to Police and
other matters of Local Government, and to Water Supply;
and for other purposes. [26th July 1869.]
YTTHEREAS the borough of Wolverhampton is a municipal
T? borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen,
and burgesses of the borough (in this Act referred to as the
Corporation) :
And whereas in the year 1850, by provisional order confirmed by
Act of Parliament, the Public Health Act, 1848, except a small
portion
thereof,
was applied to the borough:
And whereas by the Wolverhampton Improvement Act,
1853,
pro-
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vision was made for the improvement, regulation, and cleansing of c- xxviii.
the borough, and for the maintenance and regulation of the markets
and fairs therein, and for other purposes:
And whereas the Local Government Act, 1858, and many Acts
amending and extending the same, and the Public Health Act, 1848,
and incorporating wholly or in part a large number of other Acts,
have become applicable to and do apply to the borough :
And whereas under the Wolverhampton Waterworks Transfer Act,
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1867,
the Corporation have the control of the water supply of the c'CXXX1U-
borough, having acquired the same by transfer from a waterworks
company, and there are now six special Acts wholly or partly in
operation affecting the waterworks undertaking of the Corporation,
and incorporating many provisions of other Acts:
And whereas it is highly inconvenient for the borough that there
should be in force therein a variety of provisions affecting the
improvement and government of the borough, and the health and
comfort of the inhabitants
thereof,
comprised in different Acts not
uniform in language and sometimes conflicting in effect, and it is
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[Oh.
CXXXi.] The
Wolverhampton
Improvement [32
&
33 VICT.]
Act, 1869.
A.D.
1869.
therefore expedient to consolidate enactments in force relative to the
improvement and government of the borough;, and water supply and
other matters, and to simplify and amend them:
And whereas it is expedient at the same time to extend in
various respects the powers of the Corporation relative to matters
comprised in those enactments, and to other matters of local
government:
And whereas the position, with respect to incumbrances and
sinking fund and borrowing powers of the Corporation by the
Council as the local board of health, and of the Corporation in their
municipal capacity, was on the thirty-first day of August one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight such as is shown in the
first schedule to this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorized
to borrow further sums for purposes of sewerage works and other
purposes, and that better provision be made respecting securities
for and other matters relative to money already borrowed by the
Corporation :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained 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 autho-
rity of the same, as follows; (that is to say,)
I.—PEEMMINABY.
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as The Wolverhampton Improvement
Act, 1869 >
Commence- 2. This Act shall commence from and immediately after the
ment
of
Act.
thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
3.
In this Act—
The term " the borough" means the municipal borough of
Wolverhampton, and the terms " the Corporation," " the
mayor," " the Council," " the watch committee," " the town
clerk," "the treasurer," and "the surveyor," and "the
borough fund," mean respectively the mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses of the borough, and the mayor, the Council, the
watch committee, the town clerk, the treasurer, and the
surveyor for the time being of the borough, and the borough
fund of the borough:
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Interpreta-
tion
of
terms.
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VICT.] The
Wolverhampton
Improvement [Oh, CXXXi.]
Act, 1869.
The term "the Municipal Corporation Acts" means the Act
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of the session of the fifth and sixth years of King William
the Fourth (chapter seventy-six), "to provide for the
" regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and
" Wales," and all Acts for the time being in force amending
the same, or otherwise relating to Municipal Corporations
in England:
The term "person1' includes an incorporated company and a
corporation aggregate or sole :
The term "justice" means a justice of the peace for the
borough, or a stipendiary justice appointed under the Act of
the session of the ninth and tenth years of the reign of Her
present Majesty, chapter sixty-five, or under any other Act
for the time being in force:
The term " two justices " means two or more justices assembled
and acting together in petty sessions for the borough, or any
stipendiary justice acting for the borough or for the county
of
Stafford:
The term " court of quarter sessions" means the court of
general or quarter sessions for the borough :
The term " street" applies to and includes any highway (not
being a turnpike road), and any road, public bridge (not
being a county bridge), lane, footway, square, court, alley,
passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, and the parts of
any such highway, road, bridge, lane, footway, square, court,
alley, or passage within the borough, whether made before or
after the commencement of this Act, but does not include
any road, carriageway, bridge, footway, pathway, or approach
belonging to any railway company:
The term " court" means the whole or any part of any court,
alley, entry, passage, yard, way, or place made before or after
the commencement of this Act, and used with or appurtenant
to two or more dwelling houses :
The term " owner" means the person who for the time being
receives the rackrent of the lands with reference to which
that term is used, whether on his own account, or under or by
virtue of any mortgage or charge, or as agent or trustee for
any other person, or who would so receive the same if the
lands were let at a rackrent, and includes every successive
owner from time to time of the lands for any part of the
time during which the enactment wherein that term is used
operates in relation to such lands:
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