Metropolis Toll Bridges Act 1877
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1877 c. xcix |
| Year | 1877 |
[40 & 41 VICT.] Metropolis Toll Bridges Act, 1877. '[Oh. XCix.]
CHAPTER xcix.
An Act to provide for throwing open for the free use of the
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1877.
Public certain Toll Bridges within the Metropolis.
[12th July 1877.]
HERE AS it is expedient that the several toll bridges set forth
in the schedule to this Act annexed, which are situate within
the metropolis, should be thrown open free from toll for the use of
the public, and with that view that the powers in this Act con-
tained should be conferred on the Metropolitan Board of "Works, and
that the other provisions in this Act contained in relation thereto
should be made:
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 :
1.
This Act may be cited as " The Metropolis Toll Bridges Act, Short title.
1877."
2.
In the construction of this Act the following terms shall have Interpreta-
the meanings herein-after assigned them : tlono terms>
" The Board " shall mean the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The term " bridge " shall include any of the bridges mentioned
in the first column of the schedule to this Act annexed, and all
buildings and works in, under, upon, or forming part of the
same.
The term " company " used in relation to any bridge shall mean
the company, body, or persons specified in the second column of
Part I. or Part II. of the schedule to this Act annexed, opposite to
the name of such bridge.
The term " special Act" with respect to a company shall mean
and include any and every Act of Parliament relating to the
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1877.
Act to be
carried into
effect by
Metropolitan
Board.
Power to
Board to
appoint a
committee.
The Board
may pur-
chase under-
takings of
companies.
Terms of
purchase
of under-
takings of
•
companies,
8 &-9 Vict.
C.18.,23&24
Vict. c. 106.,
32
&
33 Vict.
c. 18.
[Oh.
XCix.] Metropolis Toll Bridges Act, 1877. [*0 & 41 VICT.]
bridge 0f such company, or any matter connected therewith or
incident thereto.
The term " undertaking " shall mean,—
With respect to any company specified in Part I. of the schedule
to this Act annexed, the bridge of such company and the
approach roads to and toll-houses on or near the same, and all
lands and works necessarily occupied or used for the purposes
of the same, and all the estate, right, title, and interest of such
company in or to the same, and all rights, powers, and autho-
rities and privileges of such company in relation thereto, under
their special Act or otherwise; and
With respect to the company specified in Part II. of the schedule
to this Act annexed, all rights of way or passage over the
bridge of such company, and all powers, authorities, and
privileges enjoyed or exerciseable by such company with re-
spect to such rights of way or passage, and all rights, powers,
authorities, and privileges enjoyed or exerciseable by such
company with respect to tolls and charges arising from or in
connexion with such rights of way or passage over such bridge,
and all the estate, right, title, and interest of such company in
or to such rights of way or passage, tolls, and charges, under
their special Act or otherwise.
3.
This Act shall be carried into effect by the Board.
4.
The Board may from time to time appoint a committee to
manage and transact all or any of the matters or purposes which
the Board are by this Act empowered to do or perform, which
committee shall have so much or so many of the powers by this
Act conferred on the Board as from time to time the Board see
fit to delegate to them.
5.
The Board shall, within two years after, the passing of this
Act, by notice in writing, require each and every company specified
in the schedule to this Act annexed to sell, and every such company
shall when so required sell their undertaking to the, Board, and
the Board shall purchase the same, in the manne'r and subject to
the terms and conditions by this Act prescribed.
6. The consideration to be paid by the Board for the purchase
of the undertaking of any company shall be such as may be settled
by agreement between the Board and such company, or failing
such agreement as may be settled in manner provided by the
provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860,
and 1869, with respect to the purchase jand taking of lands other-
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