Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act 1888
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1888 c. clvi |
| Year | 1888 |
[51 & 52 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works (Various [Oh. clvi.]
Powers) Act, 1888.
CHAPTER clvi.
An Act to confer powers on the Metropolitan Board of
A.D.
1888
Works with respect to the improvement of Streets and
Bridges the providing and extending of Eecreation
Grounds and for other purposes. [7th August 1888.]
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HEREAS it is expedient that the Metropolitan Board of
Works (herein-after referred to as the Board) s'hould he
authorised to widen Church Street Eulhani as herein-after men-
tioned and that powers should he conferred for constructing a new
bridge over the West London Extension and London Chatham and
Dover Railways in the parish of Saint Mary Battersea and for the
improvement and widening of the span of a bridge carrying the
West London Extension Railway over the Latchmere Road in
the same parish and that provisions with respect to contributions
by the vestries of the said parishes respectively towards the costs
and expenses of those works should be made as herein-after
provided:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Board to purchase
a piece of land situate to the north of Kennington Park and that
the said piece of land should be added to and form part of Kennington
Park:
And whereas it is expedient to enable the Board to purchase
certain lands in the parish of Lewisham in the county of Kent so
that the same may be held by the Board as an open space for the
perpetual use thereof for exercise and recreation and to provide that
the board of works for the Lewisham District shall contribute
towards the cost of acquiring the said lands as an open space :
And whereas it is expedient that two pieces of land in the parish
of Camberwell in the county of Surrey should be transferred to
and vested in the Board for the purpose of forming approaches to
Dulwich Park and that the said pieces of land should be added
to and form part of Dulwich Park :
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And whereas the Board have caused to be deposited with the
clerks of the peace for the counties of Middlesex Kent and Surrey
plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the works by this
Act authorised and the lands on which the same will be made and
plans of the lands which may be taken compulsorily or are trans-
ferred to the Board 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 those ]ands and
such plans sections and book of reference are herein referred to
respectively as the deposited plans sections and book of reference:
And whereas it is expedient to make provision as to the manner
in which the charges of and incident to the maintenance and repair
of Westminster Bridge and the approaches thereto should be
defrayed and as to the rates upon which moneys required for those
purposes are to be charged :
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And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Metropolitan
Board of Works (Various Powers) Act 1885 for the compulsory
purchase of lands for the new street thereby authorised and for the
completion of the said street should be extended:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be accomplished 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):—
PART I.
PRELIMINAET.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Board of Works
(Various Powers) Act 1888.
2.
In this Act the following words and expressions have the
several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction
(that is to say):—
" The street improvement" means the widening of Church Street
authorised by this Act;
"The bridge improvements" means the construction or improve-
ment as the case may be of the Culvert Road Bridge and
the bridge over Latchmere Road as authorised by this Act;
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Short title.
Interpret*
tion of
terms.
[51 & 52 VICT.] Metropolitan Board of Works (Various [Oh. clvi.]
Powers) Act, 1888.
" Street and bridge improvements" means the street improve- &•
raent and the bridge improvements ;
" The Lands Clauses Acts " means the Lands Clauses Consolida-
tion Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 (except section 133 of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845) as amended by the Lands
Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883;
" The Metropolis Management Act " means the Metropolis
Management Act 1855 and any Act amending the same;
" Metropolis " means the metropolis as defined by the Metropolis
Management Act; led to that term in the Metro-
polis Management Act and the Acts amending the same;
" Street authority " means with respect to any parish under the
control of a vestry acting under the Metropolis Management
Act the vestry of such parish and with respect to any parishes
under the control of a district board of works acting under
that Act the board of works for such district and the term
district" in relation to a street authority means the area
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subject to the jurisdiction of such street authority;
"Justice" means justice of the peace acting for the county
borough liberty or place where the matter requiring the cog-
nizance 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 " includes any person holding a sub-lease ;
" 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 in the subject or contest something repugnant to or
inconsistent with such construction:
Provided always that for the purposes of this Act the expression
c the promoters of the undertaking " and "the Company" in the
Lands Clauses Acts shall be construed to mean the Board and that
:or the purposes of this Act the expression." superior courts " or
; court of competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in
;his Act or any Act wholly or partly incorporated herewith shall
3e read and have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to
tvhich the expression is used were a simple contract debt and not a
lebt or demand created by statute.
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