Bradford Waterworks Act 1854
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1854 c. cxxiv |
| Year | 1854 |
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO & DECIMO OCTAVO
VICTORLE REGIN/E
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Cap,
cxxiv.
An Act to make further Provision for supplying with
Water the Borough of Bradford and certain
Places in the Neighbourhood
thereof.
[3d July 1854.]
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HERE AS an Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign 5 & 6
yj€t
of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for better c. vi.
supplying with Water the Town and Neighbourhood ^r12&13Vlct-
'Bradford in the West Riding of the County of York, and another
Act w&s passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, called " The Bradford Waterworks Amendment Act, 1849/'
by which Acts the Bradford Waterworks Company were incorporated,
and authorized to construct Works for supplying the Borough of
Bradford with Water, and to raise various Sums of Money by
the Creation of Shares and by Mortgage of their Undertaking,
amounting in the whole to Eighty-eight thousand five hundred Pounds,
whereof Eighty-two thousand five hundred Pounds forms the present
Share Capital of the said Company, and Six thousand Pounds are due
upon Mortgage of their Undertaking: And whereas the said Company
proceeded to carry the Powers of the said Acts into execution, and
have raised and expended upon their Undertaking the whole of the said
Sum of Eighty-eight thousand five hundred Pounds, but by reason
C.
XX.
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1926 17° & 18° VICTORIA, Cap.cxxiv.
The Bradford Waterworks Act, 1854.
of the great and rapid Increase of Population and in the Number
of Dwelling Houses and other Buildings in the Town and Neighbour-
hood of Bradford a much larger Supply of Water is required for
domestic and other Purposes in the said Town and Neighbourhood
than the existing Works of the Company are capable of affording, and
it is expedient that new Works should be constructed for the Purpose
of furnishing an additional Quantity of Water thereto: And whereas
the several Parishes or Places of Addingham, Silsden, Morton, Den-
holme, Wilsden, Allerton, Heaton, and Bolton, or some of them, or
some Parts
thereof,
respectively, in the several Parishes.of Addingham,
Kildwick, Bingley,. Bradford, and Calverley, in the West Riding of
the County of York, might be conveniently supplied with Water to
a great Extent by means of Works constructed for furnishing such
additional Supply to the Borough of Bradford:. And whereas the
Bradford Waterworks Company are willing to construct the requisite
new Works for the Purposes aforesaid and to furnish such Supplies of
Water, if authorized by Parliament so to do; but to enable the said
Company to construct such Works and furnish such Supplies of
Water, and also to make their existing Works more available for
supplying Water within the Borough of Bradford, it is expedient that
they should be authorized to raise a further Sum of Money: And
whereas it is expedient that Provisions should be made for conso-
lidating the Shares of the said Company into Stock, and for converting
their Mortgages into Shares or Stock: And whereas the Objects afore-
said cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament, but the
same might be more conveniently effected if the recited Acts were
repealed, and other Provisions were enacted in lieu
thereof:
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 of the
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, as follows:
Interpret*- I. In construing this Act the following Words and Expressions
tkm of
shall have the Meanings hereby assigned them, unless there be some-
thing in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction;
(that is to say,)
The Word " Company" shall mean the Company incorporated by
this Act:
The Word " Person" shall include Corporation, whether aggre-
gate or sole, and the Proprietors and Undertakers of every
Navigation or Canal, whether incorporated or not:
The Expression " paid up Capital" shall comprise Consolidated
Stock and Shares which have been fully called up and paid, and
such Portions of Shares not fully called up and paid as shall
have been called up and paid.
II.
The
17° & 18° VICTORIA,
Cap.
cxxiy. 1927
The Bradford Waterworks Act, L854.
II.
The Company incorporated by the first-recited Act is hereby Recited Acts
dissolved, and the recited Acts are hereby repealed. C^mpanv^
dissolved.
III.
"The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," (except
Provisions of
the Provisions thereof with respect to the Conversion of the borrowed 8 & 9
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. c. 16. ex-
Money into Capital,) " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," tended
to
this
and " The Waterworks Clauses Act,
1847,"
shall be incorporated with Act.
and form Part of this Act; and in construing such Acts for the Pur- Interpreta-
poses of this Act the Expression "the Special Act" shall mean this tainExprVs-
Act; and the Expression "the Works," or "the Waterworks," or sions.
" the Undertaking," shall mean and include the Waterworks and
Works connected therewith by this Act vested in or authorized to be
made by the Company incorporated or constituted by this Act; the
Expression " the Promoters of the Undertaking" shall mean the
Company incorporated by this Act; the Word " Shares" shall include
Consolidated Stock as well as Shares; and the Expression " Quarter
Sessions" in this and the incorporated Acts shall mean any Quarter
Sessions holden in and for the West Riding of the County of York,
or any Adjournment
thereof.
IV. The Limits of this Act for supplying Water shall be the Limits of
Town and Borough of Bradford, and the several Townships or Places *
of Addingham, Silsden, Morton, Denholme, Wilsden, Allerton,
Heaton, and Bolton, in the Parishes of Addingham, Kildwick,
Bingley, Bradford, and Calverley, in the West Riding of the County
of York: Provided always, that with respect to such Parts of the
.said Townships and Places as are situate above the Level of the
Waste Weir of the Lower Chellow Dean Reservoir of the Company,
the Water to be supplied by the Company need not be constantly
laid on under Pressure.
V. The several Persons and Corporations who immediately before Re-establish-
the passing of this Act were Proprietors of Shares in the Company ^enJfof,
hereby dissolved, and all other Persons and Corporations who have Waterworks
subscribed or shall hereafter subscribe to the Undertaking of the Company.
Company, and their Executors, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns
respectively, shall be united into a Company for the Purpose of
supplying with Water the Inhabitants, Buildings, and Lands within
the Limits of this Act, and for making and maintaining Waterworks
for that Purpose, with proper Works and Conveniences connected
therewith, according to the Provisions in this and the incorporated
Acts contained; and for the Purposes aforesaid such Company shall
be incorporated by the Name of " The Bradford Waterworks Com-
pany," and by that Name shall be a Body Corporate with perpetual
Succession, and may sue and be sued, and shall have a Common
Seal, and Powers to purchase, rent, hold, and sell Lands, Rights, or
Easements
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