Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No.2) Act 1905
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1905 c. cxxi |
| Year | 1905 |
[5
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7.] Pier and Harbour Orders [Oh. CXXX.]
Confirmation (No. 2) Act,1905.
CHAPTER cxxi,
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the -A.D. ISOS
Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour
Act 1861 relating to Melfort and Portencross.
[4th August 1905.]
F
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HEREAS a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade
under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 is not of any
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validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof "by Act of c'45*
Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders
made by the Board of Trade under the said Act and set out in the
schedule to this Act he confirmed by Act of Parliament:
Beit therefore 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:—
1*
The Orders as amended and set out in the schedule to this Confirmation
Act shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and all the of
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provisions thereof in manner and form as they are set out in the
said schedule shall from and after-the passing of this Act have full
validity and force.
2.
The Undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not Special
under the powers of this Act or of the said Orders purchase or
Provislons
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acquire in any district in Scotland within the meaning of the working
Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 any house or houses which on class-
the fifteenth day of December last were occupied either wholly or Ci ag.
partially by thirty or more persons belonging to the working class
as tenants or lodgers or except with the consent of the Secretary
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schedule.
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CXXi.] Pier and Harbour Orders [5 EDIT, 7-]
Confirmation (No. 2) Act, 1905.
A.D.
1905.
for Scotland any house or houses which were not so occupied on
" the said fifteenth day of December but have been or shall be
subsequently so occupied.
If any Undertakers acquire or appropriate any house or houses
under the powers of this Act or of the said Orders in contravention
of the foregoing provision they shall be liable to a penalty of five
hundred pounds in respect of every such house which penalty shall
be recoverable by the Secretary for Scotland by action in the Court
of Session and shall be carried to and form part of the Consolidated
Eund of the United Kingdom Provided that the Court may if it
think fit reduce such penalty.
For the purposes of this section the expression " labouring
class " means mechanics artizans labourers and others working for
wages hawkers costermongcrs persons not working for wages but
working at some trade or handicraft without employing others
except members of their own family and persons other than
domestic servants whose income does not exceed an average of
thirty shillings a week and the families of any of such persons who
may be residing with them and the expression " house
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means any
house or part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling,
Short title. 3. This Act may be cited as the Pier and Harbour Orders
Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1905.
THE SCHEDULE OF ORDERS.
1.
MELFOUT.—Levying of rates &c.
2.
POBTEXCROSS.—Construction of pier &c.
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[5
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7.] Tier and Harbour Orders [Ch. CXXi.]
Confirmation
(No*
2) Actt 1905,
MELFORT PIEE. A.DJ9Q5,
Provisional Order authorising the lemjing of rates at mid the Mei/ort,
regulation of the pier known as Melfort Pier situate in
Fearnach Bay
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Melfort in the Cotyity of Argyll and for
other purposes connected therewith,
Preliminary.
1.
This Order may be cited as the Melfort Pier Order 1905. Short title.
% This Order shall come into force upon the day when the Act Commence-
confirming this Order is passed and that day is in this Order referred to as '
(f the commencement of this Order."
3.
In this Order the expression "the pier" shall mean the pier and Interpretation.
'works which at the commencement of this Order are known as Melfort Pier
and are situate in Fearnach Bay and Loch Melfort in and ex adverso of the
Parish of Kilninve rand Kilmelfort in the County of Argyll
Undertakers.
4.
Charles Macdonald Williamson Writer in Glasgow Mrs. Jessie Mary Undertakers.
McDonnel or Maclellan residing at Temple Mount Wargrave Berkshire widow
of Keith Maclellan of Melfort in the county of Argyll Walter Stoddart-
Maclellan residing at Melfort aforesaid Mrs. Isabella Marcella Mary Maclellan
or Stoddart-Maclellan wife of the said Walter Stoddart - Maclellan and
daughter of the said Keith Maclellan and Hugh Peter Macpherson wine
merchant in Glasgow the sole accepting original and assumed trustees acting
under the Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement of the said deceased
Keith Maclellan of Melfort-dated the sixth day of August one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four and recorded in the Books of Council and Session
the third day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one and
their successors in office as trustees aforesaid and assigns shall he the
Undertakers for carrying this Order into execution and are in this Order
referred to as " the Undertakers/'
Limits.
5.
The limits within which the Undertakers shall have authority and Limits of
within which the powers of the piermaster and the power to levy rates may
be exercised shall comprise the pier and an area below high-water mark
within a distance of two hundred yards measured in any direction seawards
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