Metropolitan Board of Works (Bridges) Act 1884
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1884 c. ccxxviii |
| Year | 1884 |
[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Ch. CCXXViii.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
CHAPTER ccxxviii.
An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to A-^-1884.
alter the situation of the new Battersea Bridge authorised
by the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881 and for other
purposes [7th August 1884,]
W
HEREAS by the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881 (hereinafter
referred to as " the Act of 1881") the Metropolitan Board of
Works were empowered (amongst other things) to construct a new
bridge over the River Thames at Battersea with approaches thereto
but the said Board have not yet constructed the said bridge or
approaches and it is expedient that the said bridge should be
constructed in the altered position shown on the plans deposited for
the purposes of this Act and that provisions should be made such as
are in this Act contained empowering the Metropolitan Board of
Works to construct the said bridge in such altered position as
aforesaid and in connection therewith the new road and road
widening hereinafter described and prohibiting the Metropolitan
Board of Works from making the approach road to new Battersea
Bridge in the county of Surrey and parish of St. Mary Battersea
authorised by the Act of 1881 and rendered unnecessary by the
altered position of the said bridge;
And whereas the Metropolitan Board of Works have caused to be
deposited with the respective clerks of the peace for the counties
of Middlesex and Surrey plans and sections describing the lines
situations and levels of the proposed works and the lands or other
property in or through which the said works will be made or which
may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act and
a book of reference containing the names of the owners and lessees
or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the same lands
and property and describing the same lands and property and such
plans sections and book of reference are in this Act referred to as
the deposited plans sections and book of reference ;
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[Oh.
ecXXViii;] Metropolitan Board of "Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
{Bridges) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884. without
the authority of Parliament;
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):
Short title.
(Bridges) Act 1884. Works
tion, of terms*
£!!TK!L 2- In tHs A^ the Allowing words and expressions have the
several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be something
in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to
say):
" The Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works ;
" The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Consolida-
tion Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 (except section one hundred and
thirty-three of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845)
as the same are amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act
1883;
" The Act of 1881 " means the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1881;
The Act of 1883" means'the Metropolitan Board of Works
(Bridges, &c.) Act 1883;
The works by this Act authorised " includes the new Battersea
Bridge and'the widening of Battersea Bridge Boad and the
new road in: the parish of St. Mary Battersea by this
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Act
respectively 'authorised*'and the viaducts' embankments "piers
walls fences drains stairs buildings works and conveniences
connected with the said new bridge and widening and with the
said new road respectively by this Act authorised ;
"Justice5" means justice of the peace acting for the county
borough liberty or place where the matter requiring the
cognisance of any Such justice shall arise and who shall not be
interested in the matter. When any matter shall require to
be done before justices the expression "two justices" shall
be understood to mean two justices assembled and acting
together in petty sessions or' a Metropolitan police magistrate
sitting alone;
" Lessee J? includes any person holding
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sub-lease;
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<: Person " includes corporation;
And the several words and expressions to which by the Acts
wholly or partly incorporated herewith meanings are assigned
have in this Act the same respective meanings unless there be
[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Ch. CCXXViiL]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
in the subject or context something repugnant to or inconsistent
with such construction;
Provided always that for'the purposes of this-Act the expression
"the Promoters of the undertaking" in the Lands Clauses Acts
shall be construed to mean the Board and that >f or the purposes
of this Act the expression "superior courts" or •" court of
competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in this Act
or any Act wholly or partly incorporated herewith. shall be read
and have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to which
the expression is
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used were a simple ..contract debt and not a
debt or demand created by statute.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts (except where expressly varied by oST10U
this Act) are incorporated'with and form'part of this Act.
Clauses
Acts.
7 r r Act to be
4.
This: Act shall be carried into effect by the Board. X^the
5.
The Board may from time to time, appoint a. committee or ?
authorise a committee or committees appointed, by the Board fox Board to
other purposes, to manage-and transact all or,any of the matters appoint
or purposes which the Board are by this Act empowered to do
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or perform and any, such 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 may see fit to delegate to them.
6. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may make Power to
new Battersea Bridge authorised by the Act of 1881 in the altered tjon^to™"
position shown on the deposited- plans instead 'of in the position
new
Batter-
shown on the plans deposited for the-purposes of the Act of
se^BrldSe
1881 and may'in the lines according to the levels and within the by Act of
limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans riiake and (except 1881-
as otherwise by this Act expressly provided) mairitain the said
bridge and ;the newrciadand road widening'hereinafter mentioned
that is to say :
A new road, wholly in the parish of St. Maly Battersea com-
mencing in the Battersea Bridge Road at its junction with
Little Europa Place continued along the present line of the said
place to a .point in line with and thence to and along Cottage
Place and terminating at the northernmost, end. of Cottage
Place where, it joins " The Folly " and
The widening of Battersea Bridge Road in the same parish on the
western side thereof from the termination of new Battersea
Bridge to Bridge Road West.
And in connection. therewith all such viaducts embankments piers
wharves walls fences drains stairs buildings and all such woi'ks and
conveniences as they may deem proper-- And all the provisions of
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Removal of
existing
Battersea
Bridge.
[Oh, CCXXViiL] Metropolitan Board of Works [4*7 & 48 VICT.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884. the Act of 1881 as amended by this Act with respect to new
Battersea Bridge and the works connected therewith shall extend
and apply to the works authorised by this Act as though the same
were authorised by the Act of 1881. Provided always that the
works authorised by the Act of 1881 and therein described as new
Battersea Bridge shall not (so far as they are different from the
works by this section authorised) be made by the Board and that
the Board shall not make the approach road to new Battersea
Bridge in the county of Surrey and parish of St. Mary Battersea
shown on the plans and sections deposited for the purposes of the
Act of 1881.
7.
Notwithstanding anything contained in section twenty-eight
of the Act of 1881 and at any time before or during the con-
struction of new Battersea Bridge by the Act of 1881 and this Act
authorised the Board may take down and remove the existing bridge
over the River Thames known as Battersea Bridge and the works
connected therewith and the Board may if they think fit wholly or
partially stop the traffic over the existing bridge over the River
Thames known as Battersea Bridge and over the approaches thereto
for such time and to such extent as they may think necessary and
may for such purposes put up or cause to be put up sufficient
palisades bars posts and other erections and may make from time
to time such orders for stopping or regulating the traffic as to
them shall seem proper and the said section shall be construed
accordingly. Provided that before taking down or removing the
said existing bridge or stopping traffic for the purpose of con-
structing new Battersea Bridge the Board shall provide and shall
maintain a sufficient continuous means of passage across the River
Thames for foot passengers upon or over or in connection with the
existing bridge or the works authorised by this Act until the new
bridge shall be opened to the public.
8. The following provisions shall be in force and have effect
with respect to the property numbered four on the deposited plans
in the parish of St. Mary Battersea and consisting of lands and
hereditaments now in the occupation of the London Steamboat
Company Limited to which William Farnell Watson is or claims to
be entitled subject to a lease to the said company :
(1) The Board may enter upon take and use so much of the
lands forming part of the said property as are coloured dark
red on^ a certain plan marked No. II which is signed by Sir
Henry Hussey Vivian Bart, the Chairman of the Committee of
the House of Commons to whom thie Bill for this Act was
during its progress through Parliament referred (a copy of
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Provisions
relating to
property of
William
Farneli
Watson and
of London
Steamboat
Company
Limited.
[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Oh. CCXXViii.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
which plan has been deposited in the Private Bill Office of the A.D. 1884.
House of/Commons) the Board not being obliged or compellable
to purchase the whole of the said property or any greater
portion thereof than is coloured dark red on the said plan.
(2) The Board may stop up close and discontinue for public
traffic the "existing entrance and means of access to the said
property from Battersea Bridge Road and shall in such case in
lieu thereof at their own cost in all respects provide a new
entrance and means of access to the said property from Bridge
Road by the construction and dedication to the public of the
new road shown on the said plan and therein coloured pink
connecting Cottage Place with Battersea Bridge Road Pro-
vided always that the Board shall^ not stop up close or dis-
continue for public traffic the said existing entrance and means
of access until they shall have completed fit for use by the
public the said new road and shall have provided such new
entrance and means of access to the said property in manner
hereinbefore provided.
(3) The purchase-money or compensation to be paid by the Board
to the said William Parnell Watson and the said company or
other the owner or owners for the time being of the said pro-
perty for his or their estate or interest in the said property
shall be such as may be settled by agreement by and between
the Board and the said William Farnell Watson and the said
company or such other owner or owners as aforesaid or failing
such agreement as may be settled in manner provided by the
Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of
lands otherwise than by agreement.
Provided that any purchase-money or compensation payable by
the Board in respect of the said property to the said William
Farnell Watson and the said company or such other owner or
owners as aforesaid shall include the value of the respective
interests of the said William Farnell Watson and the said
company or such other owner or owners as aforesaid in such
of the lands forming part of the said property as are coloured
dark red in the said plan and any purchase-money or com-
pensation so payable to the said company shall include all
expenses which may be incurred by the said company in any
re-arrangement of their buildings which may be rendered
necessary by reason of the taking by the Boaxd of such lands
coloured dark red as aforesaid and in making an entrance
into the premises of the said company from Cottage Place
of equal width with Cottage Place. Provided further that no
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CCXXViii.] Metropolitan Board of W<
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
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compensation shall be payable by the Board to the said William
Farnell Watson or to the said company or to any such other
owner' or owners as aforesaid in respect of any damage
to trade or except as by this section expressly provided in
respect of any damage temporary or permanent which may
be sustained by him or them by reason of the execution by
the Board of any of the powers by this Act conf erred. upon
them.
(4) The Board shall not enter upon or take under the powers of
this Act the said lands coloured dark red on the said plan or
any of them unless and until the full amount of all purchase
money compensation and expenses payable by the Board under
the provisions of this section shall have been duly paid by the
Board to the parties respectively entitled thereto in accordance
with the provisions of this section.
(5) All differences that may arise between the Board and the said
William Farnell Watson and the said company or the said
owner or owners as to the said new entrance shall be settled in
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manner provided by the Lands' Clauses Acts with respect to the
settlement of questions of disputed compensation.
9. Section thirty-six of the Act of 1881 with respect to the pro-
perties in the said section referred to shall be read and construed so
that wherever in the said section mention or reference is made of
or to the approach road to new Battersea Bridge in the parish of
St. Mary Battersea by the said Act authorised such mention or
reference shall be deemed to be made of or to Battersea Bridge Road
as widened under the authority of this Act and the said section shall
be read and construed accordingly.
10.
In making the new road and road widening by this Act
authorised the Board may deviate to any extent not exceeding five
feet from the levels thereof respectively defined on the deposited
sections and may subject to the provisions of this Act deviate from
the lines thereof within the limits of deviation defined on the
deposited plans. But nothing in this section shall enable the Board
in making new Battersea Bridge to deviate either from the line or
level thereof otherwise than in accordance with the. provisions of the
Act of 1881.
Board may \\m The Board during the making of any of the works by this
carrot Act authorised may in or upon the lands shown upon the deposited
ways^&c., plans stop up or cause to be stopped up all
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or any part of the
during ese- carria£eWays or footways of streets which they may think necessary
cution of to,; ^
works.
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Amendment
of Act of
1881 as to
property of
Mr. Hazell.
Power to
deviate.
[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Oh. CCXXViii.]
{Bridges) Act, 1884.
for, the purposes .of :^this Act, to be stopped up and for that purpose AJD. 1884.
may put or cause to be put up sufficient
,
palisades, bars, posts and
other-erections and may make from time to time such orders for
regulating the passage, of carts carriages' and horses as to them
shall: seem proper.
12.
The Board within the limits, of deviation defined on the Power to
deposited plans may for the purposes of and in connection with the
l*
st?ps
i i • i • i • • r • areas pipes
works by this Act authorised raise sink or otherwise alter or cause &c.
to be altered the position of any of the steps areas cellars cellar
flaps gratings fencings windows and watercourses pipes or spouts
belonging to any house or building and alsp (but subject to the
provisions of the Act ol 1881 with respect to the depth of covering
over, any .water or gas mains or other pipes) the leaden or other
pipes which for the purpose of- conveying.water Qr.gas to any house
or other place shall be laid into or from any.main or pipe laid down
by any of the companies or .societies who furnish, the inhabitants
with "water or gas and may remove all other obstructions so as the
same, be done with as little delay and inconvenience to the said
companies societies and inhabitants as the circumstanqes of the case
will admit and the Board shall, make reasonable compensation to
any. company
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society or person who suffers damage by any such
alteration.
13.
The Board may appropriate and dedicate to the use of the Power to
public the whole of any road or way whether a thorough? are or appropriate
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roicls
to
USP
not within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and ol'the public.
forthwith thereafter the same shall be a public .highway and shall
be maintained repaired and lighted as other public highways by. the
road authority of the district in which the same is situate. Provided
always that the Board shall not be liable to make compensation to
any person in respect, of the appropriation or dedication of such
road
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or w>y or in, respect of the site or soil of such road or way or
of any part
thereof.
14.
Notwithstanding anything in any Act to the contrary it shall No main or
not be lawful for any company or person ,to. enter upon break up We to be
or interfere with the bridge by this Act authorised or the road and au\horisedl
down consent of
pipe or executing any work therein thereon or thereunder except with ^use(f
the consent of the Board in writing and in accordance with such terms
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and conditions not being the exaction of any rent as the Board may
determine. Provided that nothing in this section contained shall
alter or affect any of the provisions of the Telegraph Act 1878 or of
the Electric Lifting Act 1882.
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Period for
completion
of works.
Errors and
omissions in
plans &c. to
be corrected
by justices
who shall
certify the
same.
[Oh.
CCXXViii.] Metropolitan Board of Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884..
A.D.
1884. 15. If the works by this Act authorised be not completed within
four years from the passing of this Act then on the expiration of
that period the powers of the Board under this Act for the
execution thereof or otherwise in relation thereto shall cease to be
exercised except so far as the same shall have been then completed.
16.
If any omission misstatement or erroneous description shall
have been made of any lands or of the owners lessees or occupiers
of any lands on the deposited plans or in the deposited book of
reference the Board may after ten days notice to the owners lessees
and occupiers of the lands affected by such proposed correction
apply to two justices for the correction thereof and if it shall appear
to such justices that such omission misstatement or erroneous
description arose from mistake they shall certify the same accord-
ingly and they shall in such certificate state the particulars of any
such omission and in what respect any such matter shall have been
misstated or erroneously described and such certificate shall be
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county in which the
lands affected thereby shall be situate, and such certificate shall be
kept by such clerk of the peace along with the other documents to
which it relates and thereupon such plans or book of reference shall
be,
deemed to be corrected according to such certificate and the
Board may take the lands in accordance with such certificate.
17.
The Board and their surveyors officers and workmen and
any person duly authorised in writing under the hand of the clerk
of the Board may from time to time at all reasonable times in the
day upon giving in writing for the first time twenty-four hours and
afterwards from time to time twelve hours previous notice enter
into and upon the lands and buildings by this Act authorised to be
taken and used or any of them for the purpose of surveying and
valuing the said lands and buildings without being deemed tres-
passers and without being subject or liable to any fine penalty or
punishment on account of entering or continuing upon any part
of the said lands.
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18.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may enter upon
take and use all or any of the lands shown on the deposited plans and
described in the deposited book of reference and any easement right
or privilege whether existing at the time of the passing of this Act
or required for the purpose thereof in or over the River Thames
and the banks bed soil and foreshore of the said river which they
may require for the purposes of the works by this Act authorised
or any of them and the Board may if they think fit acquire and
use any such easement right or privilege in through over or affecting
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Power to
the Board to
enter upon
property for
survey and
valuation.
Power to
take lands
and ease-
ments.
[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Oh. CCXXViiL]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
any such banks bed soil or foreshore without acquiring or being A.D.J884.
required to take such banks,bed soil or foreshore Provided always
that'for the purposes of the works by this Act authorised- or any of
them the Board may enter upon and use temporarily any road within
the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and .also any
lands roads footways or towing paths within the limits of deviation
shown upon the deposited plans having given three weeks previous
notice in writing to the owners and occupiers of the same of their
intention to enter upon the same for such purposes and without being
required to purchase or acquire the said premises or any of them and
making compensation to the persons and in the manner prescribed
by sections forty-three and forty-four of the Railways Clauses Con-
solidation Act 1845 in all cases where the company shall not be
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required to purchase lands and where they shall take temporary
possession of lands by virtue of the powers in the special Act
granted.
19.
Persons empowered by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act Powers to
1845 to sell and c'onveyor release lands may if they think fit subject gon^toerant
to the provisions of that Act and of the Lands Clauses Consolida- easements
tion Acts Amendment Act 1860 and of this Act grant to the Board &c- b7
agree-
any easement right or privilege (not being an easement of water)
required for the purposes of this Act in over or affecting any such
lands and for the purposes of this Act the provisions of the said
Acts with respect to lands and rentcharges so far as the same are
applicable in this behalf shall extend and apply to such easements
rights and privileges as aforesaid and to any grant of the same
respectively.
20.
And whereas for the purposes of and in connection with the Owners may
works by this Act authorised, portions only of certain of the pro- ^ re^lured
perties shown on the deposited plans and hereinafter mentioned only of cer-
may be sufficient and such portions may be severed from the tain la?d?
remainder of the said properties without material detriment thereto : if juiyor0^
Therefore notwithstanding section ninety-two of the Lands Clauses arbitrators
Consolidation Act 1845 the owners of and persons interested in the so decide-
properties numbered on the deposited plans 41 42 43 45 46 48 49
60 61 62 and 63 in the parish of St. Mary Battersea whereof parts
only are required for the purposes of this Act may (if' such parts
can in the judgment of the arbitrator arbitrators umpire or jury
assessing or determining the compensation under the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act 1845 be severed from such properties without
material detriment thereto) be required to sell and convey to the
Board the portions only of the premises so required without the
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ment.
Costs of ar-
bitration c
in certain
cases.
[Ch.
CCXXViii.] Metropolitan Board of Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884.
Board being obliged or compellable to purchase the whole or any
grleater portion thereof the Board paying for the parts required by
them and making compensation for any damage sustained by the
owners thereof or other parties interested therein by severance or
otherwise.
21.
The arbitrator arbitrators umpire or jury to whom any
question of compensation under this Act is referred shall if so
required by the Board award and declare whether a statement in
writing of the amount of compensation claimed has been delivered
to the Board by the claimant giving sufficient particulars and in
sufficient time to enable the Board to make a proper offer and if he
or they shall be of opinion that no such statement giving sufficient
particulars shall have been delivered one half of the costs of the
arbitration or as the case may be one half of the costs of the
proceedings before the sheriff (including the costs of summoning
empannelling and returning the jury and of taking the inquiry and
in recording the verdict and judgment therein) shall be defrayed by
the person with whom the Board shall have such controversy or
dispute and the remaining half shall be defrayed by the Boar4
anything in the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 to the con-
trary notwithstanding Provided that it shall be lawful for any
judge of the High Court of Justice by order in chambers in a
summary way to permit any claimant to alter and amend the state-
ment in writing of the claim delivered by him to the Board in case
of discovery of any error or mistake therein or for any other
reasonable cause such error mistake or cause to be established to
the satisfaction of the judge and such amendment to be subject to
such terms enabling the Board to investigate the amended claim
and to make an offer de novo and as to postponing the hearing of
the claim and as to costs of the inquiry and otherwise as to such
judge may seem just and proper under all the circumstances of
the case.
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Provided also that this section shall be applicable only in cases
where the notice to treat under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act
1845 either contained or was endorsed with a notice of the effect of
this section.
22.
The Board in case they shall become possessed by virtue of
this Act of any land charged with land tax shall within six months
from their obtaining possession of such land, proceed to redeem such
land tax in accordance with the powers in that behalf given by the
Acts for the redemption of the land tax.
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Redemption
of land tax
on lands
acquired by
the Board.
[47 &48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [ChV-CCXXViiL]
{Bridges) Act, 1884
23.
The Board may-sell or: dispose of all building and other A.D. 1884.
materials vested in them or which by this Act they are authorised _
> Pcwei* to sell
to acquire and which for the purposes of the Act of
1881-
the Act of m^er'Vd\s.
1883 or this Act they are authorised to take'down or remoye and all
paving metalling arid materials in Under or upon any' road street'or
other place which the Board is by this Act authorised to enter upon
take or use in the execution of any of the works by this Act autho-
rised and any materials obtained in the alteration'of or interference
with any drain or sewer shall vest 'in the Board and they may sell
or otherwise dispose of the same and the moneys'to be produced
by any sale under the authority of this section after deducting the
expenses of such sale shall be applied towards the expenses of
the Board in executing the works by the said Acts and this Act
authorised.
24.
In case any lands which shall be acquired by the Board Power to
under the powers of this Act shall not be required for any of the
J3surplus
purposes of this Act the Board'may Mien arid, as they'shall think
fit so to do demise and lease such lands' or such parts thereof as the
Board'shall think it expedient to letJ on: building leases either
altogether or in parcels to any persori or' persons who shall erect
and build or covenant and agree to erect and build thereon or on
any part thereof houses erections or buildings of such size or class
of building and upon such plan and elevation and of such height
and with such storeys as the Board shall think proper for any term
or number of years'to determine at or before the expiration of
ninety-nine years from and after the passing of this Act so as there
be reserved in every such demise or lease such yearly.rent to be
incident to the immediate reversion of the premises therein com-
prised as to the Board shall. seem reasonable and so that in every
such demise, or lease there be contained a covenant for the payment
of the rent thereby to,,be reserved and such other covenants on the
part of the tenant
or"
lessee to be therein named as the Board shall
reasonably be advised or require and also a clause in "the nature of
the condition of re-entry on non-payment of the rent thereby to be
reserved or on non-performancte of the^ covenants therein to be
contained on the part of the tenaint or lessee to be observed and
performed and every such tenant or lessee shall give such good and
sufficient security for the erecting finishing and completing of every
such house erection and building which he shall covenant or agree
to erect within the time in which he shall have contracted to finish
the same as the Board shall order and direct and the Board may if
they think fit accept and take any fine for the granting of any lease
and may enter into any agreement for the granting of any lease of
[Oh,
CCXXViiL] Metropolitan Board of Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
{Bridges) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1881.
such lands or such parts thereof and may in any such lease or agree-
ment for a lease give to the lessee or intended lessee an option or
right to purchase the fee simple in reversion in the premises leased
or agreed to be leased together with all houses erections or buildings
thereon at the time of the exercise of such option at such time and
on such terms and conditions as they may think fit and on granting
leases in pursuance of such agreements may alter the amount of the
rents agreed to be reserved in such leases and may apportion the
same and grant separate leases of any part of the hereditaments by
any such agreement agreed to be leased as the Board think fit and
may also alter or rescind any agreement as aforesaid and may accept
any surrender of any lease in all respects as the Board shall think
fit and any part of the said lands may be appropriated for and left
as yards or courts to be attached to any houses agreed to be leased
As to sale
of ground
rents.
Board may
sell land in
the first
instance
without
having
previously
granted a
lease
thereof.
as the Board shall think fit.
25.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may sell
and dispose of or cause to be sold and disposed of the ground rents
to be reserved by tlie leases or demises or agreed to be reserved by
any agreements for leases of any lands made under the authority of
this Act and also the fee-simple in reversion in such lands and in
the houses erections or buildings thereon either altogether or in
parcels by public auction or by private contract for such price or
prices or sum or sums of money as the Board shall think reasonable
and subject to such stipulations and provisions for the enjoyment
thereof and as to the nature of the buildings which are to be at all
times erected and built thereon and also subject to such stipulations
as to the title to be produced to the hereditaments to be sold as the
Board shall think fit and as regards any stipulations or provisions
which may be contained in any conveyance under this enactment
the same may at all times thereafter be enforced by the Board by
re-entry on such lands on breach of any such stipulation or pro-
vision or otherwise in such manner in all respects as the Board
shall think fit.
26.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may if
they think it expedient so to do sell and dispose of in the manner
hereinbefore directed all or any lands which they may have
acquired under the powers of this Act and which shall not be
required for any of the purposes of this Act without having
previously granted or agreed to grant any lease thereof for such
price or prices or sam or sums of money as the Board shall think
reasonable and subject to such stipulations and provisions for the
enjoyment thereof and as to the nature of the buildings which are
to be at all times erected and built thereon and also subject to such '
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[47 & 48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [OH. CCXXViii.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
stipulations as to the title to be produced to the hereditaments to
A..D.
1884.
be sold as the Board shall think fit and as regards any stipulations ~
or provisions which may be contained in any conveyances under this
enactment the same may at all times thereafter be enforced by the
Board by re-entry on such lands on breach of any such stipulation
or provision or otherwise in such manner in all respects as the
Board shall think fit.
27.
The Board may from time to time let either from year to Board may
year or for a less period or for a term at rack-rent or exchange or change
lands,
otherwise dispose of any building or lands or any part thereof
acquired by them under the powers of this Act and not required
for any of the purposes of this Act and may execute and do any
deed act or thing proper for effectuating any such lease exchange
or other disposition.
28.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall within Board to
such period as they may think fit (which period shall be the pre- j ®?08e °
scribed period for the purposes of section one hundred and twenty- wanted.
seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Aot 1845) after the
completion of any of the works by this Act authorised for the
purposes of which any lands have been acquired sell and dispose
of to any person or persons and grant and convey such parts of
such lands as they may have acquired under the powers of this
Act and which shall not be required for any of the purposes of this
Act.
29.
The receipt of the Board or of any person duly authorised Receipts of
by the Board for any purchase-moneys rents or profits or money S^%? be
payable to the Board by virtue of the Act of 1881 the Act of 1883 discharges.
or this Act shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge for the
money in such receipt expressed or acknowledged to be received
and the person to whom the. same shall be given shall not after-
wards be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non-
application of the money in such receipt expressed or acknowledged
to be received and such money shall be applied by the Board
towards the expenses of the Board in executing the works by the
said Acts and this Act authorised.
30.
The powers of the Board for the compulsory purchase or Period for
taking of lands for the purposes of this Act shall not be exercised coniPulsory
after the expiration of three years from the passing of this Act. lands.
31.
The Board shall not less tnan eignt weeks before they take Notice to
possession of fifteen houses or more in any parish occupied either b*e Slven °*
wholly
.
or. partially by persons, belonging to-the .working classes houses of
13
working
classes.
[Oh. CCXXViii.] Metropolitan Board of Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
(Bridge?) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884. as tenants' or lodgers m&ke known their intention to take possession
of the same by placards handbills or other general notice placed in
public view upon or within a reasonable distance from such houses
and the Board shall not take possession of any such houses until
they have obtained the certificate of a justice that it has been
proved to his' satisfaction that they have so made known their
intention.
32.
The following provisions with respect to providing aecom-
modationin suitable dwellings for persons of the working classes
As to ac-
commodation
for persons t _ _
of
the
work-
who will .be displaced by the execution of apy of the works by this
ing classes j^ct authorised shall he in force and; have effect*:—
(1) Before throwing open new Battersea Bridge to the public
the Board shall provide-or cause to be provided on the lands
acquired by the Board for the purposes of such works or on
lands in the vicinity thereof or on such lands as one of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State shall approve accom-
modation in suitable dwellings for such number not being less
than one-half of the number of persons of the working classes
displaced from the lands so acquired as the said Secretary of
State may prescribe having regard to the special circumstances
of each case and after consideration of the report of any person
ordered by him to hold a local inquiry in any case in which he
may deem such inquiry necessary.
(2) The Board may for the purpose of procuring such accom-
modation appropriate any lands for the time being belonging
to them or which they have power to acquire and which are
not required for any other purpose and may purchase by agree-
ment such further lands as inay be necessary for such purpose.
(3) The buildings upon the lands acquired by the Board for the
purposes of the works by this Act authorised shall be taken
down and .removed at such times only as
.
the said Secretary of
State may from time to time prescribe.
(4) -A certificate signed by the said Secretary of State as to the
compliance by the Board with the provisions of this Act with
tespect-to the accommodation to be provided in dwellings for
persons belonging to the working classes shall be conclusive
evidence of such compliance.
33,The(Boar;d may subject to the provisions of this Act from
time to time enter; into and carry into effect agreements "vyith any
person being the owner of or interested in any lands houses or
property abutting on any portion of any of the works authorised by
this Act with respect to the sale by the Board to such person of any
Power to
Board to
make agree-
ments with
owners of
property, .
14 operty (including any street or thoroughfare
[47 &48 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works [Ch. CCXXVili.]
(Bridges) Act, 1884.
of a street or thoroughfare acquired by the Board under the powers
f this Act and not required for any of the purposes of this Act) for
such consideration as; may be agreed upon between the Board and
such' person and the Board may accept as satisfaction of the whole
or any part, of such consideration by such person the grant of any
lands or other property required- by the. Board for the purposes of
this Act,
*
34.
The Boaird may defray the expenses from time to time Power
of
incurred by them after the passing of
r
this Act in the executicm of de^y
e°x.
the,
Act of 1881 the Act'of 1883 (except section fifty- six thereof pen ses under
and including the expenses of lighting the bridges required by the ^ ^ *||*
said .Acts to
.
be maintained by the Board), and of this Act and not 0r this Act
by either of the said Acts or this Act or any other Act otherwise and
rawing
v , .
T
T /. ' . -i.i " • , of same by
expressly provided for. in. like manner m every respect saye as generai rate.
hereinafter expressly provided as if such expenses were expenses
incurred by the,Board, in. carrying into, execution the purposes of
the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and the Acts amending the
same and all sums which from time to time the Board may require
to defray such expenses including the charges for moneys raised
since the passing of the Act of 1881 the Act of 1883 and this Act
and for the purposes of the said Acts respectively and which the
Board shall by precept require* any vestry, or district board to pay
to the Board in pursuance of the said Acts and of this'Act shall in
such precept be termed " bridge expenses " and Bhall be paid by
such vestry and district board respectively and shall be raised in
like manner as if the same were required by such vestry or district
board for defraying such of the expenses of such vestry or district
board as are chargeable upon their general rate.
35.
Nothing contained in this Act shall authorise the taking use Saving
or interference with any land or hereditaments or any rights of
ri£hts
of the
whatsoever description belonging to or vested in the Queen's most Commission.
Excellent Majesty for public purposes or which are vested in or ers of Her
are under the control or management of the Commissioners of Her wSs^d
Majesty's Works and Public Buildings without the consent in Public
writing of the same Commissioners first had and obtained which
BuildiDgs-
consent, such Commissioners are hereby authorised to give.
36.
Nothing contained in this Act shall authorise the Board to Saving
take use or in any manner interfere with any land soil tenements or
ri£hts
of the
hereditaments or any rights of whatsoever nature belonging to or Crown*
enjoyed or exercisable by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in
right of Her Crown and under the management of the Commis-
Woods
15
[Oh.
CCXXViiiJ Metropolitan Board of Works [47 & 48 VICT.]
{Bridges) Act, 1884.
A.D.
1884. either of them without the previous consent in writing of the same
Commissioners or one of them on behalf of Her Majesty first had
and obtained for that purpose (which consent such Commissioners
are hereby respectively authorised to give) and as incidental to any
such consent as aforesaid the Board may enter into any agreement
with the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods Forests and Land
Revenues or either of them who respectively may with the approval
of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury join in every such
agreement and the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods
Forests and Land Revenues with the like approval and the Board
may respectively execute all necessary conveyances leases licenses
or other deeds of or relating to any land hereditaments or rights
belonging to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown and under the
management of the same Commissioners and every agreement so
entered into as aforesaid shall be performed by the same Commis-
sioners and the Board respectively And nothing in this Act con-
tained shall divest take away prejudice diminish or alter any estate
right privilege power or authority now or from time to time vested
in or enjoyed or exercisable by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty
Her heirs or successors.
Expenses of 37- The costs charges and other expenses preliminary to and of
Act- and incidental to the preparing applying for obtaining and passing
of this Act shall be paid by the Board.
LONDOK: Printed by
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Y it E and SPOTTISWOODE,
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1884.
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