Tynemouth Corporation Act 1919
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1919 c. lvi |
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5.] Tynemouth Corporation Act, 1919. [Oh. lvi.]
CHAPTER lvi.
An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses
A.D.
1919.
of the borough of Tynemouth to construct a new
street and street improvements to provide and run
trolley vehicles and omnibuses to make further
provision with respect to the acquisition by them
of tramways and light railways and to enable them
to work the same to make further provision
with respect to their water undertaking and for other
purposes. [15th August 1919.]
"1T7HEEEAS the borough of Tynemouth in the county of
*' Northumberland (hereinafter referred to as "the borough")
is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating to muni-
cipal corporations and a county borough within the meaning of
the Local Government Act 1888 and is under the local govern-
ment of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough
(hereinafter referred to as "the Corporation") and the Corpora-
tion acting by the council are the urban sanitary authority for
the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
construct the new street and other street improvements referred
to in this Act and to acquire lands for and in connexion with
the construction thereof and for the erection of buildings and
that the provisions of this Act relating thereto should be
enacted :
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation
to provide and work trolley vehicles and omnibuses and to confer
upon them all necessary and convenient powers with respect
thereto:
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[Ch. Ivl] Tynemowth Corporation Act, 1919. [9 & 10
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5.]
A.D.
1919. And whereas tramways have been constructed in the
42&Uvict borough in pursuance of powers conferred by the Tynemouth
c.
cxciii.
and District Tramways Order 1879 and the North Shields and
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District Tramways (Extension) Order 1882 (hereinafter referred
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to as " the Order of 1879 " and " the Order of 1882 " respec-
c.clxix. tively) and by section 43 of the Tramways Act 1870 which is
incorporated therewith as amended by section 23 of the Tyne-
mouth and District Tramways Act 1903 the Corporation are
empowered within six months from the expiration of a period
of twenty-one years from the sixth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and .ninety-nine and within six months after the
expiration of every subsequent period of seven years and with
the approval of the Board of Trade to purchase the undertaking
authorised by the Orders of 1879 and 1882 and the said Act of
1903 :
And whereas in pursuance of the North Shields Tynemouth
and District Light Railways Order 1898 and of the North
Shields Tynemouth and District Light Railways (Extension)
Order 1902 (hereinafter referred to as "the Order of 1898"
and " the Order of 1902" respectively) light railways (herein-
after. referred to as "Railway No. 1 " and "Railway No. 2"
and " the railway of 1902 " respectively) have been constructed
in the borough and partly in the borough and partly in the
adjoining urban district of Whitley and Monkseaton and in
the last-mentioned urban district respectively by the British
Electric Traction Company Limited:
And whereas by section 65 of the Order of 1898 and an
agreement dated the thirteenth day of December one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-eight and made between the Corpora-
tion of the one part and the British Electric Traction Company
Limited (who were then the owners of the said tramways) of
the other part the Corporation have the same powers of com-
pulsory purchase with respect to Railway No. 1 as they have
with respect to the said tramways and by section 66 of the
Order of 1898 and by that section and section 4 of the Order
of 1902 the Corporation and the council of the urban district
of "Whitley and Monkseaton are empowered within six months
after the expiration of a period of twenty-five years from the
commencement of the Order (which was in fact the sixth day
of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine) and
within six months after the expiration of every subsequent
period of seven years and with the approval of the Board of
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5.] Tynemouth Corporation Act, 1919. [Oh. lvi.]
Trade jointly to purchase Railway No. 2 and the railway of A-D-1919-
1902 respectively:
Arid whereas the said tramways and light railways now
belong to the Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company
Limited subject to the provisions of the Act Orders and
agreement aforesaid and it is expedient that" the power of
compulsory purchase with respect to Railway' No. 2 and the
railway of 1902 be vested in the Corporation alone and that
the times at which they may exercise such power and their
powers of compulsory purchase with respect to the said
tramways and light railways be consolidated:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
work the said tramways and light railways when acquired by
them and to confer upon them the further powers with respect
to tramways and light railways in this Act contained:
And whereas under or by virtue of the Tynemouth Cor-
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poration (Water) Act 1897 the Tynemouth Corporation (Water)
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c£fi'9
v
Act 1898 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1898") and c.clxxix.
the Tynemouth Corporation (Water) Act 1907 the Corporation 7 E(lw-7-
c. xcv
have constructed waterworks on and obtain a supply of water
from the River Pont and the Fallowlees Burn a tributary
thereof in the parishes of Hollinghill Greenleighton and Ritton
White House in the rural district of Rothbury in the said
county and supply such water within the borough and a portion
of the urban district of Whitley and Monkseaton and to certain
local authorities companies and persons outside that area:,
And whereas by the Tynemouth Corporation Act 1916
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(hereinafter referred to as " the Act of 1916 ") the Corporation c' x]l-
were empowered to construct waterworks at and to obtain a
further supply of water from the Tosson Springs in the parishes
of Newtown and Tosson in the said rural district of Rothbury
and their area of supply was enlarged so as to include the
urban district of Ashington:
And whereas by virtue of the regulations made under the
Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Act 1914 the Corporation
were until recently prevented from exercising any of the
powers to construct further waterworks conferred upon them
by the Act of 1916 but such works are now in course of
construction:
And whereas the local authorities outside the area of
supply of the Corporation to whom the Corporation are
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