Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1979
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1979 c. xvi |
| Year | 1979 |
Felixstowe
Dock
and Railway
Act
1979
c. xvi 1
ELIZABETH H
1979 CHAPTER xvi
An Act to empower the Felixstowe Dock and Railway
Company to construct works; to authorise the raising of
additional capital and to provide for the capitalising
of reserves and other funds; to extend and alter the
limits of the dock; to confer further powers on the
Company, and for other purposes. [6th December 1979]
W
HEREAS the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company
(hereinafter referred to as " the Company") were
incorporated by the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Act
1875 under the name of the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company
1375
c cxlv>
and by that Act were authorised to construct a railway and pier:
And whereas by the Felixstowe Railway and Dock Act 1879
1879
c.
clxxvii.
the Company were authorised to construct a dock and railway:
And whereas by the Great Eastern and Felixstowe Railways
Arrangement Act 1887 the railway and pier authorised by the
1887
c. lxvii.
said Act of 1875 were transferred to the Great Eastern Railway
Company and the name of the Company was changed to that
which they now bear:
2 c xvi Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1979
And whereas the Company are now carrying on the dock and
railway undertaking authorised by the said Act of 1879 and further
powers were conferred on the Company in relation to that
1923 c. Ixxx. undertaking by the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1923, the
1956
c.
Ixxxviii. Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1956, the Felixstowe Dock
1963
c. xxxvi. and Railway Act 1963 and the Felixstowe Dock and Railway
1968
c. xix. Act 1968:
And whereas the period for construction of the works authorised
by the said Act of 1968 has expired and it is expedient that in
substitution for so much of Work No. 4 specified by that Act
as has not been completed the Company should be authorised
to construct the works specified by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Company to raise
additional share and loan capital for the carrying out of those
works and for the future development of the undertaking:
And whereas it is expedient that the other powers contained
in this Act should be conferred on the Company:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works by this Act authorised and the lands which may be
used for the purposes of those works, together with a book of
reference to the said plans containing the names of the owners
or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and of the occupiers
of all such lands and describing the same, have been deposited
in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private
Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the chief executive
of the Suffolk County Council and such plans, sections and book
of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited
plans,
the deposited sections 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:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Felixstowe Dock and
Railway Act 1979.
(2) The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Acts 1879 to 1968 and
this Act may be cited together as the Felixstowe Dock and Railway
Acts 1879 to 1979.
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