London Bridge Act 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1967 c. i |
| Year | 1967 |
London Bridge Act 1967
CH.
i 1
ELIZABETH II
1967 CHAPTER i
An Act to empower the Corporation of London to
reconstruct London Bridge, to construct other works and
to acquire lands compulsorily; and for other purposes.
[16th February 1967]
V¥7HEREAS—
(1) The Corporation of London are seised of, or entitled
to,
certain messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments in
the city of London and in Greater London (which are commonly
called and are hereinafter referred to as " the Bridge House
Estates") in trust for the maintenance and support of London
Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark Bridge and Tower Bridge:
(2) By the London Bridge Improvements Act 1962, the
1962
c. 1.
Corporation were empowered to carry out works for widening
London Bridge (as well as other works for providing improved
facilities for the passage of pedestrians to and from London
Bridge Railway Station and over London Bridge) but subsequent
evidence of deterioration of the condition of the existing bridge
structure shows that it is likely to become necessary to reconstruct
the bridge within the next forty years and that works of widening
cannot be carried out without incurring the risk of seriously
curtailing the residual life of the structure:
CH. i London Bridge Act 1967
Short title.
Division of
Act into
Parts.
(3) It is therefore expedient to empower the Corporation to
build a new bridge in the place of the existing bridge, but of
greater width than the existing bridge, and to defray the expenses
thereof out of the rents and profits of the Bridge House Estates:
(4) It is expedient that further provision be made with respect
to the construction of the elevated footway and footbridges
authorised by the said Act of 1962 and that the other provisions
contained in this Act be enacted:
(5) The objects of this Act cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
(6) A plan and sections showing the lines and levels of the
works authorised by this Act and showing the lands required, oi
which may be taken, for the purposes or under the powers of
this Act, and also a book of reference containing the names of the
owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the
occupiers of those lands, were duly deposited in the office of the
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office, House of
Commons, with the clerk of the Greater London Council and
with the town clerk of the city of London and the town clerk of
the London borough of Southwark, which plan, sections and
book of reference are in this Act referred to respectively as the
deposited plan, 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.
This Act may be cited as the London Bridge Act 1967.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Works.
Part IV.—General.
Interpretation.
3.—(1)
In this Act, unless there be something in the subject
or context repugnant to such construction—
1962 c.
1.
" Act of 1962 " means the London Bridge Improvements Act
1962;
" bridge " means the new London Bridge (Work No. 1)
authorised by this Act;
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i 3
" bridge works " means the bridge and the widening and PART I
regrading of Borough High Street (Work No. 2) —cont.
authorised by this Act together with the works subsidiary
thereto so authorised;
" city " means the city of London;
" Corporation" means the mayor and commonalty and
citizens of the city, trustees of the Bridge House
Estates, acting by the common council;
" council " means the Greater London Council;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act or in any
general or local Act and any order, byelaw, scheme or
regulation for the time being in force;
" existing " means existing at the commencement of this Act;
" limits of deviation " means the limits of deviation for the
works authorised by this Act shown on the deposited
plan;
" Minister " means the Minister of Transport;
" port authority " means the Port of London Authority;
" river " means the river Thames and, where the context so
admits, includes the bed, banks and foreshore
thereof;
" street " includes a highway, a public bridge and any road,
lane,
footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a
thoroughfare or not, and notwithstanding the absence
of houses, but does not include London Bridge as
existing or as reconstructed under this Act;
" tidal work " means so much of any work authorised by
this Act as is on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands
below the level of mean high-water springs;
" town clerk " and " engineer " mean the town clerk and
engineer of the city and include any persons duly
appointed to discharge temporarily the respective duties
of those officers.
(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference
in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to
that enactment as applied, extended, amneded or varied by, or
by virtue of, any subsequent enactment, including this Act.
4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, Part I of the Application
Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (except sections 4 and 27
and°fpartI
paragraph 3 (3) of Schedule 3 thereof) shall apply for the purposes p^S ry
of the acquisition of land under this Act as it applies in relation ^ct 1955.
to a compulsory purchase order under the Acquisition of Land 1965 c 56>
(Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 and as if this Act was such an ,946 ' 49'
order.
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