Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Act 1906
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[6
EDW.
7.] Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Act, 1906. [Oh. xl.]
CHAPTER xl.
An Act to authorise the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
A.D.
1906.
to construct additional dock and other works and for other
purposes. [22nd June 1906.]
W
HEREAS by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Act 1857 (being
an Act for consolidating the docks at Liverpool and Birken-
head into one estate and for vesting the control and management
of them in one public trust and for other purposes) (in this Act
called " the Act of 1857 ") the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
(in this Act called "the Board") were incorporated for the pur-
poses therein mentioned and further powers have from time to time
been conferred on the Board by various subsequent Acts :
And whereas in order to meet the constantly increasing
requirements of the trade of the port of Liverpool it is expedient
that provision be made for enabling the Board to afford further
dock accommodation on both sides of the River Mersey and that
with that object the Board be authorised to construct the docks
river walls and other works described in this Act and to reclaim
the foreshore and lands inclosed within such river walls :
And whereas the works authorised by the Mersey Dock Act
1891 the Mersey Docks (New Works) Act 1898 the Mersey Docks
(Canada Works &c.) Act 1901 and the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board Act 1903 (which Acts are herein-after respectively^ referred
to as "the Act of 1891 " "the Act of 1898" "the Act of 1901"
and " the Act of 1903 ") were designed to form one scheme of dock
extension works and it is expedient to sanction the application of
moneys borrowed and authorised to be borrowed by the Board
under the powers of any of those Acts to the purposes of any other
or others of them :
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[Ch. Xl.] Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Act, 1906. [6
EDW.
7.]
A.D.
1906. And whereas by the Mersey Bocks and Harbour Board
(Overhead Railways) Act 1882 as amended by the Mersey Bocks
and Harbour Board (Overhead Railways) Act 1887 and the Mersey
Docks and Harbour Board Act 1889 (in this Act called " the Act of
1889") the Board were authorised to make and maintain certain
railways (in this Act called "the Overhead Railway") and by the
Liverpool Overhead Railway Company Act 1888 (in this Act called
"the Act of 1888") the Liverpool Overhead Railway Company (in
this Act called "the railway company ") were incorporated and
were by virtue of the Act of 1888 and certain agreements scheduled
to and confirmed by the Acts of 1888 and 1889 (which agreements
are in this Act called " the scheduled agreements ") empowered as
lessees of the Board to make maintain and work the Overhead
Railway:
And whereas by the Liverpool Overhead Railway Act 1892
(in this Act called " the Act of 1892 ") the railway company were
authorised to make and maintain certain railways in extension of
the Overhead Railway including a railway therein and in this Act
called " the Southern Extension Railway " and by section 35 of
the Act of 1892 as amended by section 15 of the Mersey Bock
Act 1897 it was provided that the Southern Extension Railway
should be deemed to form part of the undertaking comprised in the
scheduled agreements :
And whereas under and by virtue of the scheduled agreements
the railway company as such lessees of the Board hold the Southern
Extension Railway with the Overhead Railway for a term of nine
hundred and ninety-nine years from the first day of January
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight but such term is
determinable at such times and in such events as are specified in
the agreement scheduled to the Act of 1888:
And whereas a portion of the Southern Extension Railway
has been constructed in tunnel and it is expedient that the powers
in this Act contained should be conferred upon the Board and the
railway company for dealing with such of the lands acquired for
the purposes of the said railway as are situate over or adjoining
such railway:
And whereas it is expedient that the Board be authorised to
raise further moneys and that the further powers herein-after
contained be conferred upon the Board:
And whereas plans and sections of the works by this Act
authorised showing the lines or situation and levels thereof and the
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