London County Council (Improvements) Act 1962

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Citation1962 c. xlix
10 & 11
ELIZ. 2
London County Council
Cfc.
xifc
{Improvements)
Act, 1962
CHAPTER xlix
An
Act to
empower the London County Council
to
execute
street and other works and to acquire lands, to confer
further powers on the London County Council and
another authority; and for other purposes.
[1st August, 1962.]
V17HEREAS-
(1) It is expedient that the London County Council (hereinafter
referred to as " the Council") should be empowered to execute
the works described in Part III of this Act, and to acquire for
that purpose the lands described or referred to in Part II of this
Act:
(2) By the Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers)
Act, 1885, provision was made for the establishment, main-
tenance, working and regulation of
a
ferry across the river Thames
at Woolwich and the construction of works connected therewith,
and it is expedient that the said Act should be extended, applied
and amended as in this Act provided:
(3) It is expedient that the mayor, aldermen and burgesses
of the county borough of West Ham (hereinafter referred to as
"the Corporation") should contribute towards the costs and
expenses of the Council in connection with certain of the said
works: 1
Gh,
xlix London County
Council
10 & 11 ELIZ. 2
(Improvements)
Act, 1962
(4) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
(5) The objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
(6) Estimates have been prepared of the cost of carrying out
the works to be executed by the Council under Part III of this
Act and the acquisition by the Council of lands in connection
therewith as provided for in Part II of this Act, and such estimates
amount to seven million and ten thousand pounds and six
million seven hundred thousand pounds respectively:
(7) The works included in such estimates towards the cost
and expenses of which the Corporation are to contribute as
aforesaid are permanent works and it is expedient that the
Corporation be empowered to borrow money for that purpose
as provided by this Act:
(8) Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works by this Act authorised and also showing the
lands which may be acquired or used compulsorily by the Council
for the purposes or under the powers of this Act, and also a book
of reference to the said plans containing the names of the owners
and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers
of the said lands and describing the same, were duly deposited
in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private
Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the clerk of the
Council and with the town clerk of the county borough of West
Ham, which plans, sections and book of reference are in this Act
referred to respectively 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, that is to say:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the London County Council
(Improvements) Act, 1962.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Lands.
Part III.—Works.
Part IV.—Protective provisions.
2
Division of
Act into
Parts.
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Ch. xlix
{Improvements)
Act, 1962
Part V.—Miscellaneous
Part VI.—Supplemental.
3.—{1) In this Act except as otherwise expressly provided Interpretation.
or unless
the context otherwise requires
" the Act of 1845 " means the Lands Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845;
" the Act of 1885 " means the Metropolitan Board of Works
(Various Powers) Act, 1885;
" the Act of
1950
" means the Public Utilities Street Works
Act, 1950;
" the Act of
1961
" means the Land Compensation Act, 1961;
"borough" means a metropolitan borough, and "the
borough " means the metropolitan borough in relation
to which the expression is used;
" borough council" means the mayor, aldermen and
councillors of a borough, and " the borough council"
means the mayor, aldermen and councillors of the
borough in relation to which the expression is used;
" the Bow Bridge improvement" means Works Nos. 1 to 9
(inclusive);
" Bow Churchyard " means the churchyard of the church of
St. Mary, Stratford-atte-Bow, in the borough of Poplar;
"the Corporation" means the mayor, aldermen and
burgesses of the county borough;
" the Council" means the London County Council;
" the county " means the county of London;
" the county borough" means the county borough of
West Ham;
" enactment" means any enactment, whether public general
or
local,
and includes any order, byelaw, rule, regulation,
scheme or other instrument having effect by virtue of an
enactment;
"the gas board" means the North Thames Gas Board
and the South Eastern Gas Board or either of them;
" the improvements " means Works Nos. 1 to 46 (inclusive)
or any of them or any part thereof respectively;
" land " or " lands" includes land covered with water and
any interest in land, and any easement or right in, to
or over land;
" the Lands Clauses Acts" means the Lands Clauses Acts
as modified by the Lands Tribunal Act, 1949, and by
the Act of 1961;
" the Minister " means the Minister of Transport;
"the new ferry works" means Works Nos. 10 to 14
(inclusive); 3
PART I
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