Metropolis Management Amendment Act 1890
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1890 c. 66 |
| Year | 1890 |
Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1890.
(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 66.
An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Acts.
[18th August 1890]
B E 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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theMetropolis Management Amendment Act, 1890.
2 Interpretation.
2. In this Act—
‘The Metropolis Management Acts’ includes the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and any Acts amending the same.
Terms to which meanings are assigned by the Metropolis Management Acts have the same respective meanings.
‘The council’ means the London County Council.
3 Power to vestry or district board to repair a road or way not being a street.
3. Any vestry or district board may from time to time execute any necessary works of repair upon any or any part of any carriage road within their parish or district which shall have been used for not less than six months for public traffic and which may not at the time of such repair have become repairable by them, and shall not by undertaking such repair prejudice or affect the powers of such vestry or district board to apportion and recover the expenses of paving such road or way if and when the same shall be paved as a new street under the Metropolis Management Acts.
The expense of and incident to such repair may in the first instance be paid by the vestry or district board in the same manner as the expenses of repairing other streets repairable by them, and shall as soon as may be thereafter be apportioned upon and recovered from the owners of the houses and land bounding or abutting on such road or part thereof in the same manner as if such expenses were expenses of paving, such road or part thereof as a new street under the provisions of the Metropolis Management Acts relative thereto, and the amount of the expenses so apportioned may be recovered by the vestry or district board in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Provided that no railway company shall be liable under this section to pay the proportion of the expenses of and incident to such works of repair apportioned upon them in respect of lands abutting on any such road and used solely as part of their line of railway and sidings, and having no direct communication with such road, and the amount apportioned upon any such company in respect thereof shall be paid by the vestry or district board. But in the event of such company making a direct communication with such road before the same is taken over by the vestry or district board, a just share of the said expenses shall be payable by such company to the vestry or district board, and the amount of such share shall, in case of difference between the railway company and the vestry or district board, be fixed in a summary way by any metropolitan police magistrate in whose district such road shall be wholly or partly situate, and shall be payable on demand to the vestry or district board.
4 Penalty for making sewers contrary to plans approved.
4. Any person making any sewer, or branching any sewer or drain into any sewer vested in the council, without the approval in writing of the council first had and obtained, or otherwise than in accordance with a plan and section thereof approved by the council, or causing any such sewer or drain to be so made or...
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