Oldham Improvement Act 1880
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1880 c. cxlvii |
[43 & 44 VICT.]
Oldhami
Improvement Act, 1880. [Oh. CXlviL]
CHAPTER cxlvii.
An Act to alter and extend the borough of Oldham, to
A.D.
1880.
confer upon the Corporation further powers in relation to
their Water and Gas undertakings, and for improving the
Local Government of the borough; to amend the Acts
relating to the borough ; and for other purposes.
[6th August 1880.]
HEREAS the borough of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster,
is a municipal borough under the government of the Corpora-
tion of the borough, and is subject to the Acts relating to municipal
corporations:
And whereas the Corporation, acting by the council of the
borough, are the sanitary authority for the district of the borough,
•with the powers, duties, and obligations of an urban sanitary
authority:
And whereas by the Oldham Borough Improvement Act, 1865,
28
&29 Vict.
(in this Act called " the Act of 1865 "), the Local Act of the 7th year
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«ccxi-
of King George the 4th, chapter 117, relating to the borough of
Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, was repealed, and it was
declared that certain parts of the Public Health Act, 1848, the n&i2Vict.
Local Government Act, 1858, and the Local Government Act, c-63-
21 & 22 Vint
1858 (Amendment Act, 1861), which parts had been adopted in c 98
and applied to the borough should cease to apply to the borough,
24 & 25
Vict.
and provision was made in relation to the improvements of streets c- 6I-
in the borough, and to police and other matters of local govern-
ment, and to water and gas supply, and other matters affecting the
borough:
And whereas the following Local Acts and Order (which with the
Act of 1865 are in this Act referred to collectively as " the recited
Acts") are also in force wholly or in part within or in relation to
the borough; that is to say,
6 Geo. 4. chapter 171;
1 and 2 Vict, chapter 96;
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[Oh. CXlvii.] Oldham Improvement Act, 1880. [43 & 44
VIOT.]
A.D.
1880.
The Oldham Corporation Gas and Water Act, 1853 (16 Viot.
chapter 42) ;
The Oldham Corporation Gas and Water Act, 1855 (18 Vict.
chapter 47) ;
The Oldham Corporation Waterworks, &c, Act, 1870 (in this
Act called "the Act of 1870") (33 & 34 Vict, chapter
144);
The Oldham Corporation Water Act, 1875 (in this Act called
" the Act of 1875 ") (38 and 39 Vict, chapter 180); '
41 & 42
Vict.
And the Oldham Borough Tramways Order, 1878, confirmed by
ccbdii. the Tramways Orders Confirmation Act, 1878 (No. 2) (in this
Act called " the Order of 1878 ") :
And whereas it is expedient that the borough he extended so as
to include the parts in this Act in that behalf described of the
parish of Ashton-nnder-Lyne, and of the township of Cliadderton
(including Chadderton detached), in the parish of Prestwich-curn-
Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, and that the small outlying
portion of the borough also in this Act described be severed
from the borough and annexed to the said township of Chad-
derton :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised
to enlarge the town hall, and to acquire lands for that purpose :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised
to construct the additional waterworks in this Act described, and
to purchase additional lands for purposes of their water under-
taking :
And whereas the limits within which the Corporation are now
authorised to supply water and gas include places beyond the
borough, and amongst others the township, as existing previously
to the Order next herein-after mentioned, of Royton, in the parish
of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, and it is expedient that the said limits
of supply be enlarged so as to include the area added to the borough
by this Act, and the whole of the district of the Royton Local Board
as extended by an Order of the Local Government Board (in this
Act referred to as "the Royton Order"), confirmed by the Local
42
&
43
Vict.
Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Castleton-by-
c.
Ixxxvi.
Rochdale, &c.) Act, 1879 : .
And whereas it is expedient that the rates for water supplied by
the Corporation beyond the limits of the borough be increased :
And whereas it is expedient that further powers be conferred
upon the Corporation with reference to their water and gas under-
takings, and that they be empowered to establish reserve funds in
connexion with those undertakings :
[43 & 44
VICT.]
Oldham Improvement Act, 1880. [Ch. cxlvii.]
And whereas it is expedient that such powers as are herein-after A.D. 1886.
contained be conferred upon the Corporation with respect to the
supply of light, heat, and motive power by electricity or other
artificial means :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation, be empowered
to extend their cemetery at Chadderton by adding thereto lands
now belonging to them :
And whereas the Corporation have acquired lands within the
borough for the purpose of constructing and preventing the pollu-
tion of reservoirs, and for other purposes connected with their
water undertaking, and those lands might with advantage be
appropriated for recreation grounds and other public objects, and
it is expedient that powers in that behalf be conferred upon the
Corporation:
And whereas it is expedient that in the events and subject to
the conditions herein-after expressed the use of steam or any
mechanical power on the tramways of the Corporation be autho-
rised :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to make and maintain the streets and street improvements in this
Act described, and that further powers be conferred upon them
in relation to street improvements and buildings within the
borough :
And whereas there is in the borough a road called Shaw Road,
which was constructed in or about the year 1837, and has been ever
since maintained by Joshua Milne Cheetham, William Taylor, and
Charles Edward Lees, and their predecessors in title, and on which
tolls have been and are now taken by them, and by the Act of 1865
(section 27) the Corporation were empowered to purchase and take
by compulsion, within five years from the 8th day of November
1865,
all private rights of way, and other rights in, over, or affect-
ing Shaw Road, and all rights of levying tolls in respect of traffic
thereon, and the interests of all persons in any tolls so levied, and
all gates, bars, posts, buildings, and erections in, on, or over any
part of the carriageway or footway of Shaw Road ; but the Corpo-
ration did not exercise that power, and a transfer of Shaw Road
to them without compulsion has been lately agreed on for the sum
of £6,000, to be paid by the Corporation out of the borough fund or
borough rate, or out of moneys which they are by this Act
authorised to borrow for the purpose, as the consideration money.
for the transfer, and it is expedient that the same be carried into
effect:
And whereas it is expedient that the recited Acts be amended in
divers particulars, and that further Dowers be conferred upon the,
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