Surrey County Council Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. cxv |
| Year | 1925 |
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5.] Surrey County [Ch..CXV.]
Council
Act, 1925.
CHAPTER cxv.
An Act to make provision for preventing pollution
A.D.
1925.
and obstruction of certain streams and securing
proper land drainage in the county of Surrey
to confer on the Surrey County Council further
powers for those purposes and for the better
government and administration of the county
in relation to maternity homes employment
agencies places of public entertainment and the
manufacture and sale of ice-cream and with
respect to main and arterial roads to authorise
the Council to establish fire and employers''
liability insurance funds and for other purposes.
[7th August 1925.1
HEREAS the stream known as the River Wandle
(except one branch thereof) and the two streams
known as the Beverley brook and the Hogsmill river rise
in the administrative county of Surrey (hereinafter
called " the county ") and the said three streams flow
through certain districts in the county where there has
been and is much building development and where the
population is large and increasing :
And whereas the county council of Surrey (herein-
after called " the Council ") are empowered by sec-
tion 14 of the Local Government Act 1888 to enforce the
provisions of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts 1876
and 1893 (subject-to the restrictions contained in the said
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1925. Act of 1876) in relation to so much of any stream as is
— situate within or passes through or by any part of the
county:
And whereas,WT^:expedi6ttt"i"Ei':the:.-interests of the
public health of the county to confer oh the Council such
further powers and to make such provisions as in this
Act contained with a view to the improvement of the
condition of the said three streams
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And whereas the Council as the agricultural
authority of the county have in the past exercised on
behalf of the, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
certain powders in regard to land drainage by which
agricultural land in the county has been greatly benefited
and it is expedient that further powers be conferred on
the Council with respect to land drainage as in.this Act
provided :
And whereas it is expedient to confer on the Council
such powers and to make such provisions as in this Act
contained with reference to the better control of mater-
nity and lying-in homes and of employment agencies or
registries and of places ordinarily. used for public
dancing or music or other public entertainment of the
like kind:
And whereas it is expedient and would be to the
advantage of the inhabitants of the county that' provi-
sions be enacted as in this Act contained with reference
to the manufacture and sale of ice-cream and the preven-
tion'of the spread of disease thereby :
And whereas owing to the proximity of the county
to the metropolis and the rapid and continuing increase
of the population of the county and the number of build-
ings therein and of the traffic oh the roads in the county
it is expedient that provision be made as in this Act
contained for facilitating the widening or improvement
of main and arterial roads in the county :
And whereas it is expedient that the Council be
empowered to establish and maintain a fire insurance
fund and an employers' liability insurance fund and
that the other provisions of this Act be enacted :
And whereas in relation to the promotion of,the Bill
for this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds Acts
1872 and 1903 so far as the same are applicable have been
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observed and the approval of the Minister of Health has A.D. 1925.
been obtained
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And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be
attained without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may
be enacted and be it enacted by the King's most Excel-
lent 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):
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PART
I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Surrey County Short title.
Council Act 1925.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows :— Act divided
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into
Parts.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Protection of certain streams.
Part III.—Land drainage.
Part IV.—Maternity homes.
Part V.—Employment agencies.
Part VI.—Music and dancing licences.
Part VII.—Ice-cream vendors.
Part VIII.—Roads.
Part IX.—Insurance.
Part X.—Financial.
Part XI.—Miscellaneous.
3.
The Lands Clauses Acts except the provisions Incorpora-
thereof with respect to the taking of lands otherwise tion of
than by agreement and except section 127 of the Lands ^a^ds
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 are hereby incorporated ^^ses
with this Act.
4.
In this Act unless the context otherwise Definitions.
requires
:
—
Words and expressions to which meanings are
assigned by the Lands Clauses Acts have the
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