Newport [Monmouthshire] Corporation Act 1906
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1906 c. xcvii |
| Year | 1906 |
[6
EDW.
7.] Newport Corporation Act, 1906. [Ch. XCVii.]
CHAPTER xcvii.
An Act to confer farther powers on the mayor aldermen
A.D.
1906.
and burgesses of the county borough of Newport with
regard to the health improvement and good government
of the borough and for other purposes.
[20th July 1906.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Newport in the county of Mon-
mouth is a municipal borough and under the government
of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (hereinafter called
" the Corporation") and is a county borough under the Local
Government Acts 1888 and 1894 and the Corporation acting by
the council of the borough are the sanitary authority of the
borough with the powers and obligations of an urban authority :
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Corpo-
ration with respect to infectious disease and sanitary matters
should be extended and that further powers should be conferred
upon the Corporation .with reference to their electrical under-
taking and otherwise as in this Act provided and that further
provision should be made for the good government of the
borough :
And whereas by the Newport Corporation Act 1900 the
Corporation were authorised to acquire lands for the purpose of
the erection of a lunatic asylum and were authorised to borrow
moneys for such purpose :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
authorised to borrow further moneys for the purpose of and in
connection with the lunatic asylum :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
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XCVii.] Newport Corporation Act, 1906. [6
EDW.
7.]
A.D.
1906. And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Corpo-
ration of the further amounts required for the purposes of and
in connection with the lunatic asylum and such estimates amount
to the sum of thirty-five thovisand pounds in respect of the erection
of the lunatic asylum and five thousand pounds in respect of the
purchase of furniture in connection with such asylum :
And whereas the several works included in such estimates
respectively are permanent works and it is expedient that the
cost thereof should be spread over a term of years :
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of
the council at a meeting held on the twelfth daj' of December
one thousand nine hundred and five after ten days' clear notice
by public advertisement of such meeting and of the purposes
thereof in the South Wales Argus a local newspaper published
and circulating in the borough (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 newspaper and has received the approval of the Local
Government 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 the council at a further special meeting held in
pursuance of a similar notice on the ninth day of January one
thousand nine hundred and six being not less than fourteen days
after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament :
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act the requirements contained in the First Schedule of the
Borough Funds Act 1903 have been observed:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the King'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.
PRELIMINARY.
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Newport Corporation Act
1906.
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