Works and Public Buildings Act 1874
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1874 c. 84 |
| Year | 1874 |
Works and Public Buildings Act, 1874
(37 & 38 Vict.) CHAPTER 84.
An Act to regulate the Incorporation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and for other purposes relating thereto.
[7th August 1874]
W HEREAS there are divers Corporations created by the various Acts of Parliament mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, and now subsisting under the same name of ‘The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings,’ and the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings are also incorporated under the name of the Battersea Park Commissioners, by the Act mentioned in the second schedule to this Act, and it is expedient that all such Corporations should be amalgamated:
And whereas it is also expedient that certain royal properties now under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues should be placed under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings:
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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as ‘TheWorks and Public Buildings Act, 1874.’
2 Commissioners incorporated by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42. to have the powers conferred on subsequent Commissioners.
2. The Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings as incorporated by and for the purposes of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-two, are hereby declared to be, and shall be a Corporation to all intents and purposes, and as such shall have and hold, and may exercise not only all the estates, property, interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or enjoyed by them under that Act, but also all estates, property, interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or held or enjoyed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings as a Corporation under the Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter twenty-eight, or any subsequent Act, and in or by the Battersea Park Commissioners.
3 Dissolution of Corporation created subsequent to 14 & 15 Vict.
3. The Corporation of the Battersea Park Commissioners, and all Corporations existing under the name of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's...
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