Edinburgh Corporation Order Confirmation Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. cxv |
| Year | 1927 |
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Corporation
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Order Confirmation
Act, 1927.
FOR
THE
CHAPTER cxv.
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under
A.D.
1927.
the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland)
Act 1899 relating to Edinburgh Corporation.
[22nd December 1927.]
W
HEREAS the Provisional Order set forth in the
schedule hereunto annexed has been made by one
of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the
provisions of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland)
62 & 63
Act 1899 as read with the Secretaries of State Act 1926 vi°t- c 47.
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firmed by .Parliament:
Be it therefore 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 :—
1.
The Provisional Order contained in the schedule Confirma-
hereunto annexed shall be and the same is hereby tionof
confirmed. °^f
schedule.
2.
This Act may be cited as the Edinburgh Corpo- Short title.
ration Order Confirmation Act 1927.
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Edinburgh Corporation
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Order Confirmation
Act, 1927.
SCHEDULE.
EDINBURGH CORPORATION.
Provisional Order to authorise the Corporation of the ,
city and royal burgh of Edinburgh to make and
maintain tramways to
construct
works and improve-
ments to acquire lands to amend the Edinburgh
Municipal and Police Acts to borrow money and
for
other
purposes.
WHEREAS the lord provost magistrates and council of
the city and royal burgh of Edinburgh (hereinafter
referred to as "the Corporation") are vested, with the
municipal government of the said city and royal burgh
^hereinafter referred to as " the city ") and are the local
authority therein for police public health road sanitary
tramway electricity gas water and other purposes:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of and
work the existing tramways within the city and are
authorised to construct maintain and work additional
tramways within the city :
And whereas it is expedient and would be in the
public interest that the Corporation should be authorised
to construct work and maintain the tramways hereinafter
in this Order described:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
should be authorised to make construct maintain and
use a pier and other works at Portobello and the other
works and improvements hereinafter in this Order
mentioned and to acquire lands for the purposes thereof
and for the purposes of the improvement of the city:
And whereas the following estimates have been
prepared by the Corporation for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned (that is to say):—
(1) For and in connection with the £
tramways by this Order authorised 59,539
(2) For and in connection with the works
by this Order authorised - - 102,400
(3) For the purchase of lands - - 6,100
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(4) For tramway equipment cars rolling £
A.D.
1927.
stock depots and garages - - 150,000 —
(5) For motor omnibuses - - - 50,000
(6) For the genera.1 purposes of the
tramway undertaking of the Cor-
poration 25,000
And whereas the said works contained in the said
estimates are permanent works and it is expedient that
the cost thereof should be spread over a term of years:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
should be authorised to borrow money for the construction
of the works and improvements authorised by this Order
for the purchase of lands and for the tramway undertaking
of the Corporation as hereinafter provided in this Order
and should be empowered to levy rates and assessments :
And whereas it is expedient that the Edinburgh
Municipal and Police Acts 1879 to
1926
should be amended
and that further powers should be conferred on the
Corporation as hereinafter in this Order provided :
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
in this Order contained should be enacted :
And whereas plans and sections describing the lines
and situations and levels of the tramways and other
works proposed to be authorised by this Order and the
lands houses and other properties which will or may be
taken and acquired for the purposes thereof respectively
and of the lands houses and other properties which may
be taken for the other purposes of this Order and also a
book of reference to those plans containing the names
of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees
and of the occupiers of the said lands houses and other
properties were duly deposited with the sheriff clerk of
the county of Midlothian and also with the sheriff clerk
of the county of the city of Edinburgh and the same are
hereinafter respectively referred to as the deposited plans
sections and book of reference :
And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be
effected without an Order confirmed by Parliament under
'the provisions of the Private Legislation Procedure
(Scotland) Act 1899:
Now therefore in pursuance of the powers contained
in the last-mentioned Act as read with the Secretaries of
State Act 1926 the Secretary of State orders as follows :—
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