Tramways Orders Confirmation (No.4) Act 1901
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1901 c. clxxxiii |
| Year | 1901 |
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EDW.
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Tramways
Ordeys
Coiajkmation
[Ch.
clxxxiii.]
(No.
4)
Act,
1901.
CHAPTER
clxxxiii,
An
Act
to
confirm certain
Provisioiial
Orders
made
by
AD.
1~01.
-
the
Board
of
Trade under
the
Tramways
Act
1970
relating
to
Coatbi-idge
Tramways
Folkestone
Corpora-
tion
Traniways
Glossop
Electric
Traiuways
I3opeinan
Tramway
Weston
-
super
-
Mare
Trsniways
and
West
Riding Tramways.
[Sth
August
1901.1
IIEREAS
under the authority
o€
tlic
l’rai11-~7ags
Act
Vim
c.
73.
the
Board
of
Tradc have made the several Provisional Ordcrs
set out in the schedule to this Act annexed
:
And mlicreas
a
Provisional Order aade by the Board
of
Trade
under the authority
of
the said Act
is
not
of
any validity
or
force
whatever until the confirniation thereof
by
Act
of
Parliament
:
And whereas
it
is
expedient that
the
several Provisional Orders
made
by
the Board
of
Trade under the authority
of
the
said
Act
and set out in the
sclicdule
to
this
Act
annexed
be
confirmed
by
Act
of
Parliament
:
Be
it
therefore
enacted by the King’s. iiiost Excellent Majesty
by
and with the advice and consent
of
the
Lords
Spiritual and
Temporal
and Cominons in this present Parliament assembled
and by the authority
of
the
mine
as
follows
:-
I.
This Act may be cited as the Tramways Orders Confirmation
SIiort
title.
(No.
4)
Act
1901.
to
t,liis Act annexed shall
be
and the
same
are hereby confirmed
Of
Orders
and
all
tho
provisions tiicreof in manner and form
as
they are
set
out
in
the
said schcduk sliali from and after the passing
of
this Act
have
full
force and validity and the
dates
of
thc same respectively
shall
he
the date
of
the passing
of
this
Act.
2.
The several
Orders
as
amended
and
set
Gut
in
the
scliedule
Confirmation
in
schednlc,
[Price
6s.
Gd.]
A
1
[Ch.
clxxxiii.]
Pramways
Orders
C'onJirmatioiz
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(i\%.
4)
Act,
1901.
A.1,.
1901.
3.
The Proaiotere iiientionecl in the said
0rder.s
shall not
iii
the
exercise
of
the powers
of
iliis
Act
OF
of
the said Orders purchase
of
houses
or
acquire
iii
any
city borough
or
other
urban
district
or
Of
labouri1lq
in
any
rural
parish
in Englsiid
or
in
any district in Scotland
within
the
meaning
of
tlie Public IIealth (Scctland) Act
1897
as
the
case iiiay be ten
or
more
houses which on the fifteenth
day
of Deccmber last were occupied either wholly
or
partially
by
persons belonging
to
the labouring class
as
tenants or lodgers
or except with thc consent
of
the Local Goveriiiiient Board
or
of
the
Secretar?
for
Scotland as tlie case limy bc ten
OF
iiiorc houses
which
were
not
so
occupiccl on
the
said fifteenth day
of
lheember
but have becii
or
shall be suliscquently
so
occupied
If
any
Promoters 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 slmll
be
liable to
n
pciialty
of
five hundred
pounds
iii
respect
of
every such house which penalty
shsil
be
recoverzhle by the Local Qoveriinieiit Board
by
action in the High
Court
or
by
the Secretary for Scotland by action
in
the Court
of
Session
as
the case
may
lie
and
shall be carried to
and
form
part
of
the Consolidated
Puiici
of
the United
Kingclo:n
Providccl that the
Court
may
if
it
think
fit
reduce such penalty.
--
Protection
class.
For
the
pnrposes
of
this section-
'The expression
';
labouring class
"
means meclianics artizans
labourers
and
others vorliing
for
wiges liawkers coster-
iiiongc:rs
persons
not
117orliing
for
wages but
working at
some
trade
or
handicraft without employing others except
meiiilms
of
their
own
family
and
persons
other than
dorneo'cic scrvants whose income
does
not exceed
an
average
of
thirty shillings
a
week
and
the families
of
any such
persons
who
may
110
rcsicling with them
;
The
expression
;'
honse
"
means
any
house
OF
part
of
a
house
occupied
as
a
separate dwelling.
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Tkccmwuys
Orders
Cor@irmntion
[Ch.
clxxxiii.
J
(No.
4)
Act,
1901.
S
C
H
E
D
U
LE.
LIST
OF
ORDERS.
COATBRIDGE TRAMlVAPS.-order enabling the Airdrie and Coatbridge
Tramways Coiiipsny to construct
id
work
tramways in the burgh of
Coatbridge and
for
other purposes.
F~LKESTONE
CORPORATION
TRAMWAYS.
-
Order authorising the
%‘layor
Aldermen
aiid
Burgeases of
the
borough
of
Folkestone to construct
traniwaps in the said borough.
Gi.ossOI’
ELECTRIC
Talii+l~vaYs.-Order authorising the Urbitn Electric Supply
Company
Limited to construct tramways in the borough of Crlosop
in
the county
of
Derby.
HOPZXAN
TRAMWAY.-Order authorising
Sir
Williain
Cordon
Gordon
Cumming Baronet
to
construct
a
tramway through the village of
Hopeman in the county
of
Elgin.
trarnways in the urban district
of
Weston-super-More
in
the county
of
Somerset and for other purposes.
WEST
RIDING TRA&lWAYS.--Order autliorising the United
Kingdom
Trainway
Light Railway arid Electrical Syndicate Limited to construct tramways
in
tlie borough
of
Poiitefract the urlian districts
o€
Castleford Peather-
stone Nornisnton
ancl
Whitwoocl and the rural district
of
Yontefract
all
in the county
of
the wcst riding
of
York arid for
other
pnrposes.
~7EH1’ON-SUPER-&~ARE TRAMWAYS.-order authorising the construction
of
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