Kensington Improvement Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. cxvi |
| Year | 1851 |
ASXO
DECIhfB
QUARTO
&
DECJMO
QUISTO
7
EGINB.
Cup.
cxvi.
An
Act
for
better
paving, lighting, cleansing,
regu-
lating,
and improving
the
Parish
of
Saint
MUYZJ
Abbotts,
Kensiqyton.
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AZlgUSt
185
I
.]
HEREAS
a Local Act was passed in the Thirty-fifth Year
of
the Reign
of
King
George
the Third, Chapter Seventy-
four, intituled
An Act
fbr
keeping in
repair
the Foottua-ys
35G.3
c.74.
ill
the
High
Street
of
the
Torcn
of
Kensington
in tlie County
of
Mid-
dlesex,
trnd
for
ligliting and wntching
the
said
Street, and
also
certain
Courts
and Alleys communicating therewith,
and
.for
removing and
preventing Encroaclments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein
:
And whereas another Local Act was passed in the Forty-third Year
of
the last-mentioned Reign, Chapter Ten, entitled
An Act
JOY
paving,
43
G.3.
c.
10.
repairing, lighting, watching,
and
otherwise improving
Kensington
Square,
and
Young Street
and
James Street
coinmunicating therewith,
iii
tlie P~isli
of
Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington,
in the
County
of
Middlesex,
and
for
removing
and
preventing Nuisances, Annoyances,
n)id
Encroachments therein
:
And whereas another Local Act was
passed
in
the Fifty-ninth Year
of
the last-mentioned Reign, Chapter
One hundred and twenty, intituled
An Act
for
paving, cleansing,
59G.3.
[
Local
]
21
L
lighting,
c.
120.
1882
14"
&
15"
VICTORIB,
Cap.cxvi.
~
The
Kensington hprove?nent
Act,
1
a5
1.
lighting,
u?atching, watering, planting,
nnd
otlierwise
improving
Edwardes Square, Earl's Terrace, Leonard Place, Edwardes Place,Ken-
sington Place East,
and
Kensington Place West,
in
the
Parish
of
Saint
Mary Abbotts, Kensington,
in
the County
of
Middlesex
:
And whereas
another Local Act
was
passed in the Fifth Year
of
the Reign
of
5
G.
4.
c.
108.
King
George
the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and eight, intituled
An
Act
to
provide
for
the
paving, gravelling, lighting,
and
iotrtching
certain
flootxays
and
Cari.iagemys
in
ancl
near
Brompton Square,
in
the
Pnrish
of
Saint Mary Abbotts, Kciisington,
in
the
Countj
oJ'b!rid-
dlesex,
and
to
provide
for
the
Jhintennnce
of
n
Gcr~.dcn
mcl
Shrub-
bey
ii~
the
said
Square
:
And whereas another Local Act
was
pcaeci
in the Sixth Yesr
of
the Reign
of
Her present Majcsty, Chapter Thirty-
(j
Vict.
c.
93-
three, intituled
An
Act
fo1.
the
Ikpoveinent
of
the
Norland
Estate,
ia
the
Pai-ish
of
Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensingtoii,
in
the
Count!/
of
Mid-
diesex: And whereas several Sums
of
Money have been borrowed
under the Provisions
of
the said recited Acts, and are chargeable
on
the Rates authorized to be made
on
the rcspcctive Districts created
by
such Acts
:
And whereas the Districts conipriscd within the Limits
of
the said recited Acts are, with the Exception of
a
Portion
of
the
High Street
of
the Town of
Kensington,
situate within the said
Parish of
Sad
Mary
Abbotts,
Kensington
:
And whereas it would
be attended with local and public Advantages if the Powers of the
said recited Acts,
or
some
of
them, were repealed or altered and
amended, and consolidated in One 14ct, and confided
to
One Body
of
Gommissioners to be appointed for the whole
of
the said Parish, and
if
further Powers werc granted to such Conimissioiicrs for the better
paving, lighting, cleansing, regulating,
and
improving thc sanic
:
And
xhereas, in pursuance of thc Po\-vcrs
of
an
Act passed in the Third
(Pub*)
and Fourth Years of thc Reign
of
King
WilZiio~,
thc Fourtli, Chapter
Ninety, numerous and separate Districts for lighting
have
been
formed within the said Parish of
St.
JIiiy
Abbotts,
Kensington,
and
separate Bodics
of
Inspectors have been appointed for superintending
the lighting
of
the said Districts, and it is expedient that the Powers
of
the said Inspectors should be transferred to and confided to the
said
Commissioners
:
And whereas there are several Streets, Roads,
Ways,
Passages, and Places,
and
othcr
populous
Parts
of
the said
Parish
of
St.
Mary
Abbotts,
Kensingfon,
for the paving, lighting,
cleansing, regulating, and improving whercof no Provision has hereto-
fore been made, and
it
would be
of
like Advantage
if
thc sanie were
also
placed under the Care, Management, and Control
of
the said
Commissioners
:
And whereas the Purposes aforesaid cannot be
effected without the Authority
of
Parliament
:
May
it therefore
please Your Majesty that it
niny
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, arid
Commons,
in this
11
present
b;4
117.4.
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