Crowborough District Gas and Electricity Act 1913
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GEO.
5.] Crowborough District Gas and [Oh., ii.]
Electricity Act, 1913.
CHAPTER ii.
An Act to confer further powers on the Crowborough
A.D.
1913.
District Gas Company.in reference to their gas under-
taking and to empower them to supply electricity within
their existing limits of supply. [4th July 1913.]
W
HEREAS hy the Crowborough District Gas Act 1899
(hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1899") the
Crowborough District Gas Company (hereinafter called "the
Company'") were incorporated for the purposes "of (amongst other
things) making and maintaining gasworks and manufacturing
and supplying gas and electricity within the parishes and places
of Crowborough Mayfleld Buxted and Hartfield in the county
of Sussex and so much of the parishes of Eotherfield Withyham
and IVant in that county and Speldhurst in the county of
Kent as is not within a radius of four miles from the centre of
the western door of Holy Trinity Church Tunbridge Wells:
And whereas the Company are supplying gas within their
said limits and they could conveniently and economically work
and maintain an electricity undertaking jointly with their gas
undertaking and it is expedient that the Company be empowered
to supply electricity for public and private purposes within
their statutory gas limits as defined by the Act of 1899 :
And whereas the authorised capital of the Company under
the Act of 1899 is twenty-four thousand pounds in ordinary
shares of one pound each and the Company were authorised to
raise six thousand pounds by borrowing :
And whereas the Company have raised and expended the
whole of such share and loan capital and now owe in addition
the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty-two pounds
eleven shillings and one penny:
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GEO.
5.]
Electricity Act, 1913.
A.D.1913.
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to raise additional capital for the purposes of this
Act and' that such other powers as are contained in this Act be
conferred upon the Company:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament;
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may he
enacted and be it enacted by the King'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) :—
Short title.
Act divided
into Parts.
Application
of Electric
Lighting
Acts.
Incorpora-
tion of
general
Acts.
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
0 I. This Act may be cited as the Crowborougli District Gas
and Electricity Act 1913.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows (namely) :-
Part I .—Preliminary
Part II.-—Gas.
Part III.—Electricity.
Part IV.—Financial.
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Part V.—Miscellaneous.
3.
This Act shall be deemed to he a special Act within
the meaning of the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 to 1909 and
the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 so far as the provisions
of those Acts and. the schedules thereto are applicable to or
are incorporated by this Act (which Acts and the schedules
thereto are hereinafter referred to as "the principal Acts")-
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4.
The following Acts and parts of Acts are (subject to
the provisions of and so far as applicable to the purposes of
this Act) hereby incorporated with and form part of this Act
(namely):—
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The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (except the
provisions relating to the conversion of borrowed money
into capital) Part I. (relating to cancellation and sur-
render of shares) Part II. (relating to additional capital)
and. Part III. (relating to debenture stock) of the
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