Ebbw Vale Urban District Council Act 1941
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1941 c. xiii |
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6. Ebbw Vale Urban Ch. xiu
•District Council Act, jg^i.
CHAPTER xiii.
An Act to empower the urban district council of Ebbw
Vale to construct new waterworks' to confer further
powers on the Council in regard to their water
undertaking and for other purposes.
[22nd July 1941.]
W
HEREAS the urban district of Ebbw Vale (in this Act
referred to as " the district ") is an urban district under
the government of the urban district council of Ebbw Vale (in
this Act referred to as " the Council "):
And whereas the demand for water within the limits of the
Council for the supply of water has increased and is increas-
ing and to enable the Council to meet such demand it is expe-
dient that the Council should be empowered to make and
maintain the works in this Act described and to acquire lands
for the purposes
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that further powers should
be conferred upon the Council with respect to their water
undertaking:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Council
in relation to the following purposes in respect of which they
are by this Act authorised to borrow money and such
estimates are as follows:
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£
For the purchase of lands and easements
for and the construction of the works
authorised by this Act 169,000
The enlargement of the existing filters at
the Llangynidr and Carno reservoirs 13,000
And whereas the works included in such estimates are per-
manent works and it is expedient that the cost thereof should
be spread over a term of years as by this Act provided :
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District Council Act, 1941.
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act be enacted:
And whereas plans showing the lands required or which
may be taken or used compulsorily for the purposes or under
the powers of this Act such plans showing the lines or situa-
tion of the works authorised by this Act and sections showing
the level of such works with a book of reference to such plans
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed
owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands were
duly deposited with the clerk of the county council of the
administrative county of Brecknock and are in this Act
respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections and
book of reference:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill
for this Act the requirements of sections 253 254 and 255 of
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5' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral and Commons in this present Parliament assembled
and by the authority of the same as follows:—
PART
I.
PRELIMINARY.
Short 1. This Act may be cited as the Ebbw Vale Urban District
Council Act 1941.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Construction of waterworks.
Part III.—Acquisition of lands.
Part IV.—Supply pipes and communication pipes.
Part V.—Water supply.
Part VI.—Financial provisions.
Part VII.—Miscellaneous.
3.—(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act the following
Acts and parts of Acts (so far as the same are applicable for
the purposes and are not varied by or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with this Act
(namely):
—
{a) The Lands Clauses Acts with the following exception
and modification
(namely):
—
(i) Sections 127 to 132 of the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act 1845 are not incorporated with
this Act;
Division of
Act into
Parts.
Incorporation
of Acts.
8 & 9 Vict.
c. 18.
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(ii) The bond required by section 85 of the PART 1.
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall be ~conL
under the common seal of the Council and shall be
sufficient without the addition of the sureties men-
tioned in that section;
(b) The provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation 8
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Act 1845 with respect to the temporary occupation c- 2°-
of lands near the railway during the construction
thereof and for the purposes of this Act such pro-
visions shall have effect as if the works by this
Act authorised were referred to instead of " the rail-
way '' and as if the centre lines of such works were
referred to instead of " the centre of the railway ";
(c) The Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 except—
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(i) the words " with the consent in writing of c'I7'
" the owner or reputed owner of any such house or
" the agent of such owner " in section 44;
(ii) sections 75 to 82 (with respect to the amount
of profit to be received by the undertakers when
the waterworks are carried on for their benefit);
and
(iii) section 83 (with respect to the yearly receipt
and expenditure of the undertakers);
(d) The Waterworks Clauses Act 1863. 26
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(2) For the purposes of the incorporation of the aforesaid
Acts and parts of Acts—
(a) the several expressions '' the promoters of the under-
taking " "the undertakers " and " the company"
when used in any of those Acts shall mean the
Council; and
(b) the expression " the limits of the special Act " when
used in the Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 shall mean
the limits of supply as defined in this Act.
4.—(1) In this Act the several words and expressions to interpretation.
which meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially
incorporated herewith or by the Public Health Act 1936 26
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have the same respective meanings unless there be something I Edw- 8-c-
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in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
(2) In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
requires—
" the Council " means the urban district council of
Ebbw Vale;
" the district " means the urban district of Ebbw Vale;
" the new works " means the works authorised by this
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