Covent Garden Market Act 1966
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Covent Garden
Market Act
1966
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ELIZABETH II
1966 CHAPTER i
An Act to make provision for the transfer of Covent
Garden Market to a site in the London boroughs of
Lambeth and Wandsworth; to empower the Covent
Garden Market Authority to acquire lands and
easements for that and other purposes; to confer
further powers on that Authority; to amend the
provisions of the Covent Garden Market Act 1961;
and for other purposes. [10th March 1966]
W
HEREAS the Covent Garden Market Authority (herein-
after referred to as " the Authority ") were constituted
by the Covent Garden Market Act 1961 (hereinafter
referred to as " the Act of
1961
"):
1961
c. 49.
And whereas certain lands in the city of Westminster forming
part of the market commonly known as Covent Garden Market
were by the Act of
1961
vested in the Authority:
And whereas the Authority were by the Act of 1961 placed
under a duty to provide within an area in the city of Westminster
and the London borough of Camden referred to in the Act of 1961
and hereinafter as " the Covent Garden Area " market facilities
for the conduct of a market for dealing in bulk in horticultural
produce and certain other commodities:
And whereas by the Act of 1961 the Authority were required
in the first instance to discharge the duty thus imposed on them
by providing facilities on the lands vested in them by that Act,
but they were further required, as soon as practicable, to take all
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practicable steps either to improve those facilities or to provide,
in substitution therefor, better ones on other lands within the
Covent Garden Area:
And whereas other duties were imposed upon the Authority
by the Act of
1961,
including a duty to provide storage facilities,
so far as practicable outside the Covent Garden Area, and a duty
to reduce the amount of land in the Covent Garden Area used
for the purposes of that Act to as small and regular an area as
may be
:
And whereas the Authority are required by the Act of 1961
in the discharge of their duties under that Act to have regard to
the public interest and the desirability of preserving and improving
the amenities of the Covent Garden Area:
And whereas, during the passage through Parliament of the
Bill for the Act of 1961, an assurance was given to Parliament
on behalf of Her Majesty's Government that if the Authority,
after examining all aspects of the problem and consulting all the
interests concerned, should reach the conclusion that Covent
Garden Market should be rebuilt outside the Covent Garden
Area, and if this conclusion were generally accepted, consent to
the promotion of a Bill to effect this purpose would not be
withheld:
And whereas a site outside that area convenient for the transport
thereto of horticultural produce by rail has become available
and the Authority, after due consideration and after consulting
all the interests concerned, have reached the conclusion that the
market should be transferred to that site:
And whereas this conclusion has been accepted generally:
And whereas it would be in the public interest and enable
provision to be.made for the improvement of the amenities of
the Covent Garden Area that the market should be transferred
to the said site:
And whereas for that purpose it is expedient that the powers
and duties in that behalf contained in this Act should be conferred
arid imposed upon the Authority:
And whereas
the.
Authority are by the Act of 1961 required, so
to exercise and perform their powers and duties under that Act
as to secure that their revenues are not less than sufficient to meet
all sums properly chargeable to revenue account, taking one year
with another:
And whereas it is expedient that the persons carrying on
business by means of the facilities to be provided by the Authority
should be enabled to compete on fair and equal terms
with:
other
persons carrying on in Greater London the business of selling
horticultural produce by wholesale:
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And whereas to secure this object it is expedient that any tolls,
rents and charges levied, charged or made by the Authority under
this Act should be as low as is consistent with the best business
practices and the proper discharge of their duties under the Act
of 1961 and this Act:
And whereas for the purpose aforesaid it is expedient that the
Authority should make the best use of their property and assets
in the Covent-Garden Area and that the duties and powers in that
behalf which are contained in this Act should be imposed and
conferred oh the Authority:
And whereas it is expedient that the further powers contained
in this Act should be conferred upon the Authority and that the
other provisions contained in this Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas a plan showing the lands which may be acquired
or used under the powers of this Act and also a book of reference
to the said plan containing the names of the owners and lessees,
or reputed owners or lessees, and of the occupiers of those lands
have been duly deposited in the office of the Clerk of the
ParUaments, House of Lords, and in the Private Bill Office of
the House of Commons, and with the respective clerks of the
Greater London Council and the London County Council, which
plan and book of reference are in this Act referred to respectively
as the deposited plan and the deposited book of reference:
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
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Covent Garden Market Short title,
Act 1966. construction
(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Act of 1961 title.
and the Act of 1961 and this Act may be cited together as the
Covent Garden Market Acts 1961 and 1966.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:— Division of
Part I.—Preliminary. Part?0
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Dutiesand powers of the Authority.
Part TV.—Control and administration of marketing.
Part V.~Covent Garden Area.
Part VI.—Miscellaneous.
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