Allotments Act 1890
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1890 c. 65 |
| Year | 1890 |
Allotments Act, 1890
(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 65.
An Act to provide for an Appeal from a Sanitary Authority failing to carry into effect the Allotments Act, 1887.
[18th August 1890]
B E 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:
1 Construction and short title.
1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Allotments Act, 1887(in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890, and this Act may be cited as theAllotments Act, 1890.
2 Appeal to county council by persons entitled to make representation to sanitary authority.
(1)2.—(1.) Where such representation as is authorised by section two of the principal Act has been made to the sanitary authority with respect to any district or parish, not being within the limits of a borough as defined by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 , and any six persons qualified to make such representation consider that the circumstances of the district or parish are such as to make it the duty of the sanitary authority to take proceedings under that Act therein, and that the sanitary authority have failed to acquire land adequate and suitable in quality and position to provide a sufficient number of allotments, such persons may petition the county council of the county in which such district or parish is situate, stating the facts and requesting the council to put into force the principal Act for the purpose of providing a sufficient number of allotments for the district or parish.
(2) (2.) The council, if satisfied by the inquiry herein-after mentioned that the circumstances are such that land for allotments should be acquired, shall pass a resolution to that effect, and thereupon the powers and duties of the sanitary authority under the principal Act, so far as regards that district or parish, shall be transferred from the sanitary authority to the county council, and the county council, in substitution for the sanitary authority, shall proceed to acquire land in accordance with the principal Act, and otherwise execute that Act in the said district or parish.
Provided that this section shall not affect the property in, or any powers or duties of the sanitary authority in relation to, any land which before the passing of the said resolution was acquired by the sanitary authority under the principal Act.
3 Standing committee.
(1)3.—(1.) For the purposes of this Act or the principal Act every county council, as soon as is conveniently practicable after the passing of this Act, and annually thereafter at the meeting for the election of chairman, shall appoint under the Local Government Act, 1888 , a standing committee not exceeding one fourth of their whole body.
(2) (2.) For the purpose of any business under this Act relating to any district...
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