Burnley Corporation (Tramways, &c.) Act 1898
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1898 c. cxcii |
| Year | 1898 |
[61 & 62 VICT.] Burnley
Corporation
{Tramways, fyc) [CtL. CXCiL]
Act, 1898.
CHAPTER cxcii.
An Act to confer further powers upon the Corporation
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189S.
of the County Borough of Burnley with respect to
Tramways and to their Electric Lighting and other
undertakings to make further provision for the
improvement and good government of the Borough to
amend and extend the provisions of the Local Acts
relating to the Borough and for other purposes.
[2nd August 1898.]
W
HEREAS the county borough of Burnley (in this Act called
"the borough") is a municipal borough under and subject to
the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and is also a county borough
under the Local Government Act 1888 and the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called " the Corporation ")
acting by the council are the sanitary authority for the district of
the borough under the Public Health Act 1875 and are also the
local authority of the same district within the meaning of the
Tramways Act 1870:
And whereas the Burnley and District Tramways Company
Limited are the owners or reputed owners of and are now working
tramways within the district of the borough and the districts of
the borough of Nelson the Padiham Urban District Council the
Brierfield Urban District Council and the Reedley Hallows Parish
Council all in the county of Lancaster :
And whereas the said tramways (herein-after referred to as "the 42&43Vict.
tramways ") were authorised by the Burnley and District Tramways c- oxau
Order 1879 confirmed by the Tramways Orders Confirmation Act
1879 (herein-after referred to as " the Order of 1879 ") and the
greater part thereof are situate within the district of the borough:
And whereas by the Burnley and District Tramways Extension
45 & 46
Vict.
Order 1882 confirmed by the Tramways Orders Confirmation c-CXXXTii-
(No.
1) Act 1882 (herein-after referred to as " the Order of 1882")
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[Oh. CXCii.] Burnley
Corporation
(Tramways,
Sfc.)
[61 & 62 VICT.]
Act, 1898.
A.J).
1898. the carriages used on so much of the tramways as are mentioned
and referred to in section 19 of the Order of 1882 were authorised
to be moved by steam or any mechanical power :
50&5lVict. And whereas by the Burnley and District Tramways Extension
c.
cxcvi.
Order 1887 confirmed by the TramwayB Orders Confirmation
(No.
1) Act 1887 (herein-after referred to as " the Order of 1887 ")
the carriages used on the remainder of the tramways authorised by
the Order of 1879 were authorised to be moved by steam or
mechanical power:
And whereas the period of twenty-one years at the expiration
of which the several local authorities for the respective districts
in which the tramways are situate will become entitled under
section 43 of the Tramways Act 1870 to purchase the portions
of the tramways within their respective districts will expire on
the eleventh day of August one thousand nine hundred :
And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the Corporation the
powers in this Act contained for working and reconstructing the
tramways or some of them :
And whereas the Corporation are the undertakers for supplying
electric power and energy within the borough and it is expedient to
authorise the use of electric power on the tramways :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should have
conferred upon them the further powers with reference to their
electric lighting gasworks and waterworks undertakings in this Act
contained:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should have
conferred upon them the further powers with reference to markets
fairs and slaughter-houses and with reference to the collection of
rates and the issue of redeemable stock in this Act contained :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
empowered to make and maintain the street improvement by this
Act authorised and to erect maintain and use a crematorium for
the purposes of the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to make the provisions in this
Ach contained for defraying the expenses of the equipment of the
tramways and the cost of the said street improvement crematorium
and other purposes of this Act and for the discharge of the various
sums now outstanding in respect of the moneys already borrowed
by the Corporation mentioned and set forth in the schedule to this
Act:.
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the twentieth day of October one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven after ten clear days'
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[61 & 62 VICT.] Burnley
Corporation
(Tramways, fyc.) [Oh. CXCii.]
Ad, 1898.
notice by public advertisement of such meeting and of the purpose A.D. 1898.
thereof in the Burnley Express and the Burnley Gazette news-
papers being local newspapers published or circulating in the
borough such notice being in addition to the ordinary notice
required for summoning such meeting resolved that the expense
in relation to promoting the Bill for this Act should be charged
on the borough fund and general rate:
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the said
newspapers and has received the approval of the Local Government
Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number
of the council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the fifth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight being not less than fourteen days after
the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by
resolution in the manner provided by Schedule III. of the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act:
And whereas a plan and section showing the lines situation and
levels of the works by this Act authorised and also a book of
reference to such plan 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
peace for the county of Lancaster and are in this Act respectively
referred to as the deposited plan section and book of reference:
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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):—
PART
I.—PEELIMINAEY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Burnley Corporation (Tramways short title.
&c) Act 1898.
2.
This Act may be carried into execution by the Corporation Execution
acting by the council. ofActs'
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