Thames Barrier and Flood Prevention Act 1972
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1972 c. xlv |
| Year | 1972 |
Thames Barrier and
Flood Prevention c xh
Act 1972
ELIZABETH H
1972 CHAPTER xlv
An Act to empowerthe Greater London Council to provide
and operate a flood barrier, with movable gates, across
the river Thames in Woolwich Reach, and in connection
therewith to execute subsidiary works and to acquire
lands;
to confer further powers on the Greater London
Council, the Essex River Authority and the Kent
River Authority and other authorities; to amend
certain enactments relating to flood prevention; and
for other purposes.
j9th
August 1972]
V¥7HEREAS-
(1)
By
the London Government Act,
1963,
provision
was
made 1963
for the discharge by the Greater London Council (hereinafter
referred to as " the Council") in Greater London and the
adjoining areas of functions with respect to
flood
prevention and
other land drainage functions under the enactments mentioned in
Schedule
14
to the said Act of 1963:
(2) By reason of the sinking of the land in south-east England
in relation to mean sea levels and the risk of tidal surges, there is
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a present and increasing danger of serious flooding in areas
adjoining the tidal reaches of the river Thames and the Thames
estuary and in certain coastal areas:
(3) Accordingly, it is expedient that the Council should be
empowered
to
construct, maintain and operate a
flood
barrier,
with
movable gates, across the river Thames in Woolwich Reach
and that provision should be made for the regulation of navigation
in connection therewith as in this Act provided:
(4) It is expedient that for the purposes of or in connection with
the said
flood
barrier the Council should
"be
empowered to execute
the works, and to acquire the lands, described or referred to in
Part II of this Act:
(5) It is expedient that further powers be conferred upon the
Essex River Authority and the Kent River Authority, as in this
Act provided, for and in connection with the protection of their
respective areas against floods or inundations from the sea or
other tidal water:
(6) It is expedient that the Thames River (Prevention of
Floods) Acts, 1879 to 1962, should be modified as in this Act
provided:
(7) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
(8) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(9) Estimates have been prepared of the cost of carrying out the
works to be executed by the Council, and of the acquisition by
the Council of lands in connection therewith, as provided for in
Part II of this Act, and such estimates amount to thirty-nine
million one hundred thousand pounds and two million two
hundred thousand pounds respectively:
(10) A plan and section showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works authorised to be executed by subsections (1)
and (2) of section 18 (As to execution of works) of this Act and
also showing the lands which may be acquired or used com-
pulsorily by the Council for the purposes or under the powers
of Part II of this Act, and also a book of reference to the said
plan containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed
owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands and
describing the same, were duly depoisted in the office of
the
Clerk
of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of
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Act
1972
Commons, with the director-general and clerk to the Council
and with the town clerks of the London boroughs of Greenwich
and Newham, which plan, section and book of reference are
in this Act referred to respectively as the deposited plan, the
deposited section and the deposited book of reference:
(11) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
Council have complied with the requirements of section 254 of
the Local Government Act, 1933:
1933
c.
51.
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, that is to say:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Thames Barrier and Flood Short title.
Prevention Act 1972.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:— Division
of
Part I.—PreUminary. Act into
Part II.—The Thames barrier.
Part III.—Powers to River Authorities.
Part IV.—Miscellaneous and supplemental.
3.—(1)
In this Act, except as otherwise expressly provided or interpretation.
unless the context otherwise requires—
" the Act of 1878 " means the Telegraph Act, 1878;
1878
c. 76.
" the Act of 1930 " means the Land Drainage Act, 1930;
1930
c.
44.
" the Act of
1933
" means the Local Government Act, 1933;
" the Act of 1950 " means the Public Utilities Street Works
Act, 1950; 1950c"39-
" the Act of 1959 " means the Highways Act, 1959; 1959 c-25-
" the Act of
1961
" means the Land Compensation Act,
1961;1961
c- 33-
" the Act of 1963 " means (except in Part III of this Act)
the London Government Act, 1963; 1%3 c- JJ-
" the Act of 1965 " means the Compulsory Purchase Act,
1965;
1965
c. 56.
" the Act of 1968 " means the Port of London Act, 1968; 1968 c- xxxu-
"the Act of 1969" means the Greater London Council
(General Powers) Act, 1969;
1969
c.
Hi.
" the Act of 1971 " means the Town and Country Planning
1971
c. 78.
Act, 1971;
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