Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Corporation Act 1914
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1914 c. clxxiv |
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GEO.
O.]
Weymouth and
Melcombe
Regis [Ch. clxxiv.]
Corporation
Act, 1914.
CHAPTER clxxiv.
An Act to authorise the mayor aldermen and burgesses A.D. 1914.
of the borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Eegis
to reconstruct the Weymouth Swing Bridge and the
Backwater Bridge and to make other works upon
and to fill in the Backwater and to confer further
powers upon the Corporation with respect to the
regulation management and good government of the
borough and for other purposes. [7th August 1914.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Eegis
(in this Act called "the borough") is a borough subject
to the Acts relating to municipal corporations and the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the
Corporation") acting by the council are the urban sanitary
authority for the district
thereof:
And whereas the several Acts and Orders specified in the
Eirst Schedule to this Act among other Acts and Orders are in
force within the borough which Acts and Orders are in this Act
referred to collectively as "the former Acts" and each of them
separately as an Act or Order of the year in which the same
was passed or made:
And whereas there is within the harbour an area of land
covered with water known as the Backwater or Radipole Lake
which is or is reputed to be the property of the Corporation
and it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered to con-
struct the works in relation thereto by this Act authorised and
to fill in and reclaim portions
thereof:
And whereas under and by virtue of the Backwater 20 &
21
Vict.
Bridge and Roads Act 1857 a bridge was constructed across the c'C1*
[Price 5s.
Gd.]
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[Ch.
Clxxiv.] Weymouth and
Melcombe
Begis [4 & 5
GEO.
5.]
Corporation
Act, 1914.
A.D.
1914.
Backwater and was vested in trustees as mentioned in the said
— Act and is now vested in and maintainable by the connty council
of the administrative county of Dorset:
And whereas the said bridge is not convenient for the pur-
poses of the present traffic thereover and requires reconstruction
and it is expedient that the powers of this Act in that behalf
should be conferred and that the said county council should be
required as in this Act provided to contribute towards the recon-
struction of the said bridge to the extent and in the manner by
this Act provided:
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U-Ykt.
And whereas by the Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Bridge
c'xu* Act 1879 the Corporation were empowered to reconstruct and
enlarge the then existing swing bridge across the harbour and
the bridge as so reconstructed has become insufficient for the
purposes of the harbour and it is expedient in the interests
of the harbour and of the borough that such swing bridge
should be reconstructed and the opening span thereof further
enlarged:
And whereas it is expedient that powers as in this Act
contained should be conferred upon the Corporation in respect
of streets buildings drainage and Avatercourses and the powers
of the Corporation with respect to infectious diseases and
sanitary matters should be enlarged as by this Act provided:
And whereas the Corporation are supplying electrical energy
within the borough under and in pursuance of the Weymouth
and Melcombe Regis Electric Lighting Order 1898 scheduled to
and confirmed by the Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation
(No.
6) Act 1898 and it is expedient that further powers should
be conferred upon the Corporation in reference to their electrical
undertaking:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the harbour
of Weymouth and Melcombe Eegis and have been authorised to
construct certain works including a pier known as the Pile Pier
and doubts having arisen as to whether such pier is included
within the harbour undertaking of the Corporation it is expe-
dient that the said pier should be made to form part of that
undertaking and that the provisions of this Act with respect
thereto should be s^ric^tiohed:1 J ,]<i l •- *
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[Oh. Clxxiv.] Weymouth and
Melcombe
Regis [4 & 5
GEO.
5.]
Corporation
Act. 1914.
AD 1914 Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled
' — and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say) :-
PART I.
PKELUQHARY.
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Weymouth and:Meleombe
Eegis Corporation Act 1914.
Division of 2. This Act is divided into Parts as follows:—
£ctiDl°
Part I.—Preliminary.
Jrarts.
Part II.—Works.
Part III.—Lands.
Part IV.—Streets and Buildings.
Part V.—Sewers and Drains.
Part VI.—Watercourses.
Part VII.—Infectious Disease.
Part VIII.—Sanitary.
Part IX.—Electricity.
Part X.—Financial.
Part XI.—Rates.
Part XII.—Miscellaneous.
Incorpora- 3. The following Acts or parts of Acts are incorporated
tionof
Acta.
w^ an(j
form
p^ 0£ ^g £^ct so far as the same are appli-
cable for the purposes of and are not varied by or inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act:—
The Lands Clauses Acts except section 127 of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act 1845:
The Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847:
Provided that the following expressions used in the Harbours
Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 shall have the following
respective meanings (that is to say):—
The expressions "packet boat" and "post office packet"
mean respectively a vessel employed by or under the
Post Office or the Admiralty for the conveyance under
contract of postal packets as defined by the Post Office
Act 1908 and the expression "post office bag of letters"
means a mail bag as defined by the same Act:
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