Littlehampton Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. lxvii |
| Year | 1927 |
[17 & 18
GEO.
5.] Littlehampton [Ch.
lxviij
Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act, 1927.
CHAPTER lxvii.
An Act to substitute for the Oommissioners of the
A.D.
1927.
Port of Arundel and Harbour of Littlehampton
a new Harbour Board and to transfer the harbour
undertaking to them to change the name of
the harbour to empower the West Sussex County-
Council to raise sums of money and to pay
such sums to the Harbour Board to provide for
contributions by local and other contributing
authorities to amend the West Sussex County
Council (Bridges) Act 1918 and for other
purposes. [29th July 1927.]
W
HEREAS under and by virtue of an Act of
Parliament passed in the sixth year of the reign
of His late Majesty King George II chapter xii. intituled
" An Act for erecting piers in and for repairing and
" keeping in repair the Harbour of Little Hampton
" called Arundel Port in the County of Sussex " Com-
missioners were appointed for carrying out and com-
pleting the purposes aforesaid in order to improve and
preserve the said harbour :
And whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed
in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty
King George HI chapter c. intituled " An Act to explain
and amend " the above recited Act " and for empower-
" ing the Commissioners acting under the said Act to
" improve the navigation of the River Arun from
" the said Harbour to the Town of Arundel in the
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Littlehampton [17 & 18
GEO.
5.]
Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act, 1927,
A.D.
1927. " said County" the Commissioners were authorised
at any time or,times after the first day of May one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-three to extend
the piers at the mouth of the said river and make
groynes from the high-water mark on the beach there
at any distance within five hundred yards of either
of the said piers and to construct other works :
And whereas under and by virtue of an Act of
Parliament passed in the. sixth year of the reign of
His late Majesty. King George IV chapter clxx. intituled
" An Act for the more effectual security of the Harbour
" of Littlehampton called Arundel Port in the County
" of Sussex" the said Commissioners were recon-
stituted and empowered to levy dues and to borrow
sums not exceeding twenty thousand pounds :
And whereas the harbour of Littlehampton is
situate at the mouth of the river Arun which has a
catchment area of three hundred and forty-nine square
miles (almost the whole of which is within the adminis-
trative county of West Sussex) and passes out to sea
between the harbour piers and* it is essential for the
drainage of.this area that the outfall of the said river
should be kept free and unrestricted :
And whereas the harbour piers and works are
in a bad state of repair and unless the same are
extensively reconstructed repaired and renewed there
is grave danger of the drainage outfall becoming blocked
and large areas in the said county becoming flooded :
And whereas the said Commissioners are not finan-
cially in a position to carry, out the urgent works of
reconstruction repair and renewal required :
And whereas it is expedient that the said Com-
missioners shall be dissolved and that the said harbour
shall be transferred to the Harbour Board constituted
by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the county
council of the administrative county of West Sussex
should be authorised to provide the moneys required
for the reconstruction repair and renewal of the works
required to maintain the harbour as an outfall for
the waters of the river Arun and that the local and
other authorities mentioned in this Act should be
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Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act, 1927.
empowered to make contributions as in this Act A.D. 1927.
provided: —
And whereas an estimate of the cost of carrying
out the work of such reconstruction repair and renewal
has been prepared and such estimate amounts to
seventy-one thousand five hundred and twenty-two
pounds:
And whereas the works included in such, estimate
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 provisions
of section 46 of the West Sussex County Council
(Bridges) Act 1918 should be amended as in this Act
provided:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the
Bill for this- Act the requirements of the Borough
Funds Acts 1872 and 1903 have been observed and the
approval of the Minister of Health has been obtained :
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 Temporal and Commons
in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows (that is to say):—
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited as. the Littlehampton Short title.
Harbour and Arun Drainage Chitfall Act 1927.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :— Division
of
Part I.-Preliminary. . vtu^
Part II.—Incorporation ot general Acts and
change of name of harbour.
Part III.—Constitution election and meetings
of members of Harbour Board.
Part IV.—Transfer of harbour undertaking to
the Harbour Board.
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