Surrey Act 1985
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| Citation | 1985 c. iii |
Surrey Act 1985
c. iii 1
ELIZABETH H
1985 CHAPTER iii
An
Act to
re-enact with amendments and to extend certain
local
enactments in force within the county of Surrey; to
confer further powers on the Surrey County Council and
local authorities in the county; to make further
provision in regard to the environment, local
government, improvement and finances of the county
and those local authorities; and for other purposes.
[27th March 1985]
YI/'HEREAS—
(1)
By
virtue of the Local Government Act 1972 (hereinafter
1972
c.
70.
referred to as "the Act of 1972") the county of Surrey
(hereinafter referred to as "the county") was on 1st April 1974
constituted as a local government area comprising the districts
of Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley,
Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath,
Tandridge, Waverley and Woking, all of which, with the
exception of Mole Vallev and Tandridge have been granted
borough status:
c. iii Surrey Act 1985
(2) By section 262 of the Act of 1972 certain local statutory
provisions in force within the county are to cease to have effect
at the end of 1986 unless exempted, or the date postponed,
by
order of the Secretary of State:
(3) Many of these existing provisions are spent or obsolete
oi
their continuation otherwise inappropriate, and it is expedient!
that others be re-enacted in more modern form:
(4) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in
this
Act should be enacted:
(5) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the
authority of Parliament:
(6) In relation to the Bill for this Act the requirements
of
section 239 of the Act of 1972 have been observed:
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:—
Citation and
commence-
ment.
Interpretation.
1936 c.
1971 c.
1972 c.
1980 c.
1984 c.
49.
78.
70.
66.
27.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Surrey Act 1985.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the expiration
of
the period of three months after the passing of this Act.
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"the Act of 1936" means the Public Health Act 1936;
"the Act of
1971"
means the Town and Country Planning
Act 1971;
"the Act of
1972"
means the Local Government Act 1972;
"the Act of 1980" means the Highways Act 1980;
"the Act of 1984" means the Road Traffic Regulation
Act
1984;
"contravention" includes a failure to comply, and
"contravene" shall be construed accordingly;
"the county" means the county of Surrey;
"the county council" means the Surrey County Council;
Surrey Act 1985
c. iii 3
"the deposited plans" means the plans respectively
marked—
(a) "Surrey. Plan of Stoke Park and Merrow
Downs";
{b) "Surrey. Plan of the Norbury Park Estate";
and
(c) "Surrey. Plan of Redhill and Earlswood
Commons";
prepared in triplicate, one copy of each having been
deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments,
House of
Lords,
one in the Private Bill Office of the
House of Commons and
one
respectively in the offices
of the proper officers of the Guildford Council,
Millmead House, Guildford, the County Council,
County Hall, Kingston upon Thames and the Reigate
and Banstead Council, Town Hall, Reigate;
"district" means a district in the county;
"district council" means the council of a district;
"the electricity board"
means the
South Eastern Electricity
Board or the Southern Electricity Board, or both of
them, as the case may require;
"fire authority", in relation to any premises, means the
authority discharging in the area in which the
premises are situated the functions of fire authority
under the Fire Services Act 1947;
1947
c.
41.
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"the generating board" means the Central Electricity
Generating Board;
"the Guildford
Council"
means the council of the borough
of Guildford;
"highway authority" means—
(a) in the case of a trunk road, the Secretary of
State;
{b) in the case of
any
other highway, the county
council;
"local authority" means the county council or a district
council;
"open space" has the same meaning as in section 290 of
the Act of 1971;
"owner"
has the
same meaning
as in
section
343
of
the Act
of 1936;
"the Runnymede Council" means the council of the
borough of Runnymede;
PART I
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