Nelson Local Board Act 1888
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1888 c. cxlvi |
| Year | 1888 |
[51 & 52 VICT.] Nelson Local Board Act, 1888. [Ch. CxlvL]
CHAPTER cxlvi.
An Act to confer further powers upon the Local Board for
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1888
the district of Nelson in the county of Lancaster with
respect to their waterworks and gasworks undertakings
and works for sewage disposal and for preventing the
spread of infectious diseases ; and for other purposes.
[7th August 1888.]
W
HEREAS by the Nelson Water and Gas Act 1866 (in this Act
called "the Act of 1866") the Local Board for the district
-
of Nelson in the county of Lancaster (in this Act called " the Local
Board") were authorised to make and maintain waterworks and to
supply water and also to purchase gasworks and supply gas within
the respective limits defined by the said Act:
And whereas by the Nelson Local Board Act 1879 (in this Act
called " the Act of 1879 ") the Local Board were authorised to make
and maintain additional waterworks:
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board should be
empowered to construct the new waterworks herein-after described
to enable them to meet the increasing demand for water within the
water limits as defined by the Act of 1866 and extended by a
provisional order dated the twenty-third day of May 1871 and
confirmed by the Local Government Supplemental Act 1871 (No. 4)
and further extended by the Nelson Improvement Act 1886 (in this
Act called " the Act of 1886 "):
And whereas the limits within which the Local Board are
authorised to supply gas are defined by the Act of 1866 and include
the district of the Local Board and the several townships or places
of Barrowford Booth and Great and Little Marsden:
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board should be
empowered to acquire and hold lands in connexion with their
sewerage works and to place thereon works for the reception treat-
ment and disposal of sewage and that the agreement with reference
thereto set forth in the Third Schedule to this Act should be
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confirmed and that powers should be conferred upon the Local Board
with respect to the prevention of
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spread of infectious diseases:
And whereas plans and sections describing the situation and the
lines and levels
of
the works by this Act authorised and plans of
the lands by this Act authorised to be acquired and also
a
book of
reference to the said plans containing the names of the owners and
lessees or reputed owners and lessees and
of
the occupiers of the
lands required for the purposes of this Act were duly deposited with
the clerk of the peace
for
the county of Lancaster and are herein-
after respectively referred
to as
the deposited plans sections and
book of reference:
And whereas the Local Board require further money
for the
purposes aforesaid and also for widening and improving streets and
bridges in accordance with section 4
of
the Burnley and District
Tramways and Extensions Order 1887 and incidental thereto and
for private street improvements and for other purposes:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Local Board
for the purchase of lands for and for the execution of the purposes
of this Act and such estimates are as follows
:
For waterworks
-
£130,000
For gasworks
-
For purchase
of
sewage lands and works of £50,000
sewage disposal
-
£20,000
For widening and improving streets and bridges £1,000
For private street improvements
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£10,000
And whereas the several works included
in
such estimates are
permanent works within the meaning
of
section 234 of the Public
Health Act 1875:
And whereas
an
absolute majority of the whole number of the
members of the Local Board at
a
meeting held on the third day of
January 1888 after ten clear days notice by public advertisement of
such meeting and of the purposes thereof in the " Colne and Nelson
Times " a local newspaper published or circulating in the district of
the Local Board such notice being
in
addition
to
the ordinary
notices required
for
summoning such meeting resolved that
the
expense
in
relation
to
promoting the Bill for this Act should be
charged on the district fund and general district rate;
And whereas such resolution was published twice
in
the said
"Colne and Nelson Times" newspaper and
in
respect
of
matters
under the jurisdiction of the Local Government Board has received
the approval of that Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion
of
the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
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the members of the Local Board at a further special meeting held A.D. 1888.
in pursuance of a similar notice on the seventh day of February 1888
being not less than fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in
Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the said district by
resolution in the manner provided by Schedule III. of the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected 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:
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Nelson Local Board Act 1888. Short title.
2.
This Act is divided into parts as follows : ££ di^ed
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part IL—Water.
Part III.—Gas.
Part IY.—Sewage disposal.
Part V.—Infectious diseases.
Part VI.—Finance.
Part VII.—Miscellaneous.
3.
The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 as Incorpora-
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amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883 and the Water-
mnemlAcU
works Clauses Acts 1847 and 1863 except the provisions of the
Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 with respect to the amount of profit to
be received by the undertakers when the waterworks are carried on
for their benefit and the provisions of the Railways Clauses Consoli-
dation Act 1845 with respect to the temporary occupation of lands
near the railway during the construction thereof are (except where
expressly varied by this Act) incorporated with and form part of
this Act: Provided that section 44 of the Waterworks Clauses Act
1847 shall for the purposes of this Act be read and construed as if
the words " with the consent in writing of the owner or reputed
" owner of any such house or of the agent of such owner" were
omitted from that section.
4.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Jpterpreta-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated lon*
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