Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No.2) Act 1885
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1885 c. lxiv |
| Year | 1885 |
[48 & 49 VICT.] Oas and Water Orders Confirmation [ph.. lxiv.]
(No.
2) Act, 1885.
CHAPTER lxiv.
A
J). 1885
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works
Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Chelmsford Gas, Great
Grimsby Gas, Clacton-on-Sea Gas and Water, and Cwm
Avon Gas and Water. [16th July 1885.]
W
HEREAS under the authority of the Gas and Water Works.
Facilities Act, 1870, the Board of Trade have made the
several Provisional Orders set out in the schedule to this Act
annexed:
And whereas a Provisional Order made hy the Board of Trade
under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act,
1870,
is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation
thereof hy Act of Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders
made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the said Act,
and set out in the schedule to this Act annexed, he confirmed hy
Act of Parliament:
Be it therefore 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 :
1.
This Act may. be cited as the Gas and Water Orders Con- short title.
firmation
(No.
2) Act, 188B.
2.
The several Orders set out in the schedule to this Act shall Confirmation
be and the same are hereby confirmed; and all the provisions of
Orders m
thereof,
in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule,
shall, from and after the passing of this Act, have full validity and
effect.
3.
The undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not Special pl-
under the powers of this Act or of the said Orders, without the ™on asfto
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[Oh. lxiv.] Gas and Water Orders Confirmation [48 & 49 VICT.]
(No.
2) Act, 1885.
A.D.
1885.
consent of the Local Government Board, purchase or acquire in
b ~T^ any city, borough, or other urban sanitary district, or in any parish
class.
or
Par*
of
&
parish not being within an urban sanitary district, ten
or more houses which, after the passing of this Act, have been,
or on the fifteenth day of December last were, occupied either
wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring class as
tenants or lodgers.
For the purposes of this section, the expression " labouring class"
includes mechanics, artizans, labourers, and others workine* for
wages, hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages but
working at some trade or handicraft without employing others
except members of their own family, and persons other than
domestic servants, whose income does not exceed an average of
thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons
who may be residing with them.
SCHEDULE OF ORDERS.
CHELMSFORD GAS.—Order empowering the Chelmsford Gaslight and Coke
Company to raise additional capital, and to construct additional works in the
parish of Springfield, in the county of Essex.
GREAT GRIMSBY GAS.—Order empowering the Great Grimsby Gas Company
to raise additional capital.
CLACTON-ON-SEA GAS AND WATER.—Order empowering the Clacton-on-Sea
Gas and Water Company (Limited) to raise additional capital, and for other
purposes.
CWM AVON GAS AND WATER.—Order conferring powers for the maintenance
and continuance of gasworks and waterworks, for the manufacture and
supply of gas, and for the supply of water, within the hamlet of Cwm Avon, in
the parish of Michaelston-super-Avon, in the county of Glamorgan.
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