Newhaven and Seaford Sea Defences Act 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1947 c. xliv |
& ii
GEO.
6. Newhaven and Seaford Ch. xliv.
Sea Defences Act, 1947.
CHAPTER xliv.
An Act to alter the constitution of the Commissioners
for the Newhaven and Seaford Sea Defence Works to
extend their powers for the construction repair and
protection of sea defence works to make further and
better provision for their finances and for other
purposes. [13th August 1947.]
W
HEREAS by the Newhaven and Seaford Defences Act
61 & 62
Vict.
1898 (in this Act called " the Act of 1898 ") a body of c. cbod.
commissioners was constituted and incorporated under
the name of the Commissioners for the Newhaven and Seaford
Sea Defence Works (in this Act called " the commissioners ")
for the purpose of making and maintaining defence works for
preventing encroachment by the sea upon the shore between
Newhaven and Seaford in the county of Sussex:
And whereas the commissioners were by the Act of 1898
empowered to make and maintain certain sea walls therein
described together with all such groynes along the line thereof
and other works and conveniences connected therewith as
the commissioners might think necessary and to construct
and maintain groynes or other defensive works on the fore-
shore in front of two then existing sea walls and the com-
missioners were also required by the said Act to maintain
the said then existing sea walls (such works extending from the
east pier of Newhaven harbour to the chalk cliff at Seaford
Head) and provision was made for ensuring the construction
of a road along the said new and one of the existing sea
walls:
A 1
Ch.
xliv. Newhaven and Seaford 10 & n
GEO.
6.'
Sea Defences Act, 1947.
And whereas certain companies authorities and person's
were required by the Act of 1898 to bear in the proportions
specified in that Act the cost of constructing the works so
authorised and provision was made by that Act for certain
companies and authorities therein mentioned to share the
expense of the maintenance and repairs of the sea walls and
works authorised by that Act or thereby required to be main-
tained by the commissioners and the provision and upkeep of
a reserve fund for ensuring the carrying out of such main-
tenance and repair and for regulating the amounts to be con-
tributed from time to time to the said fund and the application
of the said fund to such maintenance and repair:
And whereas by the Newhaven and Seaford Sea Defences Act
13 & 14
Geo.
5.
1923 (in this Act called " the Act of 1923 ") provision was
c- xs' made for increasing the amounts which might be required by
the commissioners to be paid from time to time towards the
expense of such maintenance and repair by the companies
and authorities then sharing such expense in pursuance of the
said provisions of the Act of 1898 and intermediate legislation
and statutory provisions (comprised in the Railway
(Southern Group) Amalgamation Scheme 1922 the Southern
16 & 17
Geo.
5.
Railway Act 1926 and article 58 of the East Sussex Review
c. xcu. Order 1934) and for the making of contributions by those
companies and authorities to the discharge of a debit balance
which then existed on the revenue account of the
commissioners:
And whereas it was provided by the Act of 1898 that the
commissioners should be not more than twelve in number of
whom ten^are now (by virtue of the Act of 1898 and the
said intermediate legislation and statutory provisions)
appointed as follows: —
By the East Sussex County Council (in this Act called
" the County Council ") one who is ex-officio chair-
man of the commissioners;
By the Seaford Urban District Council (in this Act called
" the Seaford Council ") three;
By the Southern Railway Company five; and
By the trustees for Newhaven Harbour and Ouse Lower
Navigation (in this Act called " the navigation
trustees '') one:
And whereas it was further provided by the Act of 1898
that if and when the Newhaven Urban District Council (in this
Act called " the Newhaven Council ") should agree to sub-
scribe towards the maintenance of the walls and works by
that Act authorised, and to contribute towards the said reserve
fund a sum not less than two thirty-second parts thereof they
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