Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act 1887

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1887 c. 17
Year1887


Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act 1887

(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 17.

An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Acts.

[12th July 1887]

W HEREAS since the date of the Metropolis Management Act 1855 (herein-after called ‘the principal Act’) the parish of Saint Mary Battersea has greatly increased in the number of inhabited houses in population and in rateable value so as to entitle the said parish to a more complete control and management of its local affairs and it is therefore expedient to amend the principal Act:

And whereas under the principal Act the parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist Westminster were united and form the Westminster district and there is a board of works for that district constituted as in the said Act provided and acting under the provisions of that Act:

And whereas by an Act passed in the twenty-fifth year of King George the Second intituled ‘An Act for the better relief and employment of the poor in the parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist in the city of Westminster and for cleansing the streets and repairing the highways within the said parishes’ (in this Act called the Act of George the Second) the churchwardens and overseers of the poor and vestrymen of the said parishes are required to assemble and meet together in the parish church or vestry room of Saint Margaret annually upon Tuesday in Easter week in the forenoon or oftener from time to time if occasion shall require for the purpose of ascertaining the moneys or rates to be assessed within the limits of the said two parishes for the relief of the poor repairing of the highways and cleansing the streets within the said parishes; and it is provided that the said churchwardens overseers of the poor vestrymen and other inhabitants of the said parishes shall assemble and meet together in the said parish church or vestry room of Saint Margaret within twenty days after the said several rates have been ascertained as aforesaid to make one general and equal pound rate or assessment for the relief of the poor repairing the highways and cleansing the streets within the said parishes:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should be amended and provision made with reference to the said parishes as hereinafter contained:

Be it therefore 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:

S-1 Interpretation.

1 Interpretation.

1. In this Act—

‘The Battersea Vestry’ means the vestry of the parish of Saint Mary Battersea excluding Penge as incorporated by this Act;

‘The Wandsworth District Board’ means the board of works for the Wandsworth district as constituted by the principal Act and as it will be constituted after the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

S-2 Construction of Act.

2 Construction of Act.

2. The principal Act as amended by any subsequent Act and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.

S-3 Short title of 29 Vict. c. 31.

3 Short title of 29 Vict. c. 31.

3. The Act passed in the twenty-ninth year of Her present Majesty chapter thirty-one intituled ‘An Act to provide for superannuation allowances to officers of vestries and other boards within the area of the Metropolis Local Management Act’ may for the purposes of this Act and for all other purposes be cited as the Superannuation (Metropolis) Act 1866.

BATTERSEA.

BATTERSEA.

S-4 Separation of Battersea from the Wandsworth district.

4 Separation of Battersea from the Wandsworth district.

4. From and after the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight

(1) (1.) The parish of Saint Mary Battersea excluding Penge shall cease to be united with the parishes mentioned in Schedule ‘B.’ of the principal Act as forming the Wandsworth district and the principal Act shall be read and have effect as if the said parish excluding Penge had been named in Part II. of Schedule ‘A.’ of the said Act and the vestry of the said parish shall become and be a body corporate by the name of the vestry of the parish of Saint Mary Battersea;

(2) (2.) The parishes named in the said Schedule ‘B.’ (other than the said parish of Saint Mary Battersea) as forming the Wandsworth district shall form the Wandsworth district for the purposes of the said Act;

(3) (3.) The board of works for the Wandsworth district shall continue to be a body corporate by the name of the board of works for the Wandsworth district;

(4) (4.) No person elected a member of the Wandsworth District Board by the Battersea Vestry shall remain a member of that board and the power of that vestry to elect any member of that board shall as from that date cease.

S-5 Battersea Vestry to elect one member of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

5 Battersea Vestry to elect one member of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

5. The Battersea Vestry shall on the twenty-sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight elect one person to be a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works and thereupon the person elected by the Wandsworth District Board as a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works whose term of office would have expired in June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight shall go out of office.

The member of the Metropolitan Board of Works first elected by the Battersea Vestry under this Act shall go out of office on the second Wednesday in June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

S-6 Wandsworth District Board to elect two members of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

6 Wandsworth District Board to elect two members of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

6. From and after the said twenty-sixth day of March the Wandsworth District Board shall be entitled to elect two persons to be members of the Metropolitan Board of Works instead of the three whom they were authorised to elect under the principal Act as amended by the Metropolis Management Amendment Act 1885.

S-7 Election, &c. of such members.

7 Election, &c. of such members.

7. All the provisions of the principal Act as to election qualification disqualification and...

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