West Sussex County Council Act 1972
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1
ELIZABETH H
1972 CHAPTER 1
An
Act to reconstitute the Littleharapton Harbour Board,
to transfer functions of the board under the Land
Drainage Acts to the Sussex River Authority and to
make provision with respect to the finances and
accounts of the board; to confer further powers on
the West Sussex County Council and on local, highway
and other authorities in the administrative county of
West Sussex in relation to lands, planning and amenities,
highways and the local government, improvement,
health and finances of the county and of the boroughs
and districts therein; to enable the bridge over the
river Arun authorised by the Littlehampton Urban
District Council (Arun Bridge) Act 1905 to be
removed; and for other purposes. [26th October 1972]
V17HEREAS-
(1)
By
the Littlehampton Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall
Act
1927
(hereinafter referred to as" the Act of
1927
")
a
harbour
1927
c.
board under the name of " The Littlehampton Harbour Board "
2 c.
1
West Sussex
County Council
Act
1972
(hereinafter referred
to
as"
the
harbour board")
were
incorporated
for carrying the provisions of the Act of 1927 into effect within
the hmits of the port of Arundel and the harbour of Littlehampton
described in the Act of 1927:
(2) The harbour board now consist of twenty-four members
of whom four are ex-officio members, eighteen are members
appointed by the West Sussex County Council (hereinafter
referred to as " the Council"), the mayor, aldermen and burgesses
of the borough of Arundel, the Commissioners of Sewers for the
rape of Arundel, the Littlehampton Urban District Council, the
Worthing Rural District Council and the British Railways
Board and two are members elected by persons or bodies qualified
to vote as provided in the Act of 1927:
(3) It
is
expedient that the harbour board should
be
reconstituted
as in this Act provided:
(4) It is expedient that functions of the harbour board in
regard to land drainage should be transferred to the Sussex
River Authority:
(5) It is expedient that further powers should be conferred on
the harbour board in relation to the borrowing of money for the
purposes of their undertaking and that further provision should
be made in relation to their finances, the contributions to be
made to the harbour board by the Council and the Littlehampton
Urban District Council, and the powers of the Council to lend
money to the harbour board and to borrow money for those
purposes:
(6) It is expedient that further and better provision should be
made with reference to lands, planning and amenities, highways
and streets and the local government, improvement, health and
finances of the administrative county of West Sussex and that the
powers of the Council and of local and other authorities therein
should be enlarged and extended as by this Act provided:
(7) It is expedient that provision should be made for the
removal of the opening bridge over the river Arun authorised by
the Littlehampton Urban District Council (Arun Bridge) Act
1905c.clxxx. 1905:
(8) It is expedient that the other provisions in this Act should
be enacted:
(9) The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
Sussex County
Council Act 1972
c. I 3
(10) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
requirements of Part XIII of the Local Government Act 1933
1933
c
51.
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, that is to say:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the West Sussex County short
and
Council Act 1972. collective
titles.
(2) The West Sussex County Council Arts 1946 and 1970 and
this
Act may be cited together as the West Sussex County Council
Acts 1946 to 1972.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Littlehampton Harbour.
Part III.—Lands.
Part IV.—Planning and amenities.
Part V.—Highways and streets.
Part VI.—Public health.
Part VII.—Fire protection and pubic safety.
Part VIII—Finance.
Part IX.—Miscellaneous.
Part X.—General.
3.—(1)
In this Act the several words and expressions (other Interpretation
than those denned in subsection (2) of this section) to which
meanings are assigned by sections 90 and 110 of the Act of 1936
and sections 294 and 295 of the Act of 1959 have the same
respective meanings unless there be something in the subject or
context repugnant to such construction.
Division
of
Act into
Parts.
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