50 & 51 Vict., Cap. 21. WATER COMPANIES (REGULA- 50 & 51 Vict., Cap. 21. An Act to limit the Powers of the Water Companies to cut off the Tenants Water Supply where the rate is paid by the [8th August 1887.] landlord. [Preamble.] 1. This Act may be cited as the Water Companies Short title. (Regulation of Powers) Act, 1887. 2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. Extent of Act. of Act. 3. This Act shall apply to every water company which Application is a trading company supplying water for profit, and to which any of the provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, have been or shall be made applicable by any special Act or Provisional Order confirmed by Parliament, and every such special Act and Provisional Order shall be deemed to be amended by this Act, and shall be construed accordingly. Water not to where the be cut off water rate is payable by the 4. Where the owner and not the occupier is liable by law or by agreement with the water company to the pay ment of the water rate in respect of any dwelling-house or part of a dwelling-house occupied as a separate tenement, no water company shall cut off the water supply for non- owner. payment of the water rate, but such water rate, without prejudice to the other remedies of the company for enforcing payment thereof from such owner, shall, together with interest thereon at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, computed from the expiration of one month from the time when the same has been claimed by the company until receipt thereof by the company, be a charge on such dwelling-house in priority to all other charges affecting the premises; and (without prejudice to such charge) the amount may be recovered, with the costs incurred, from the owner or from the occupier for the time being in the same manner as water rates may by law be recovered: Provided always, that proceedings shall not be taken against the occupier until notice shall have been 50 & 51 Vict., Cap. 21 Penalty on cutting off of supply in contravention of the Act. given to him or left at his dwelling-house to pay the amount due for water rate out of the rent then due or that may thereafter become due from him, and he shall have omitted so to pay such water rate; and provided also, that no greater sum shall be recovered at any one time from any such occupier than the amount of rent owing by him, or which shall have accrued due from him since such notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, and that every such occupier shall be entitled to deduct from the rent payable by him the sum so recovered from him or which he shall have paid on demand. 5. In the event of any such supply being cut off in contravention of this Act, the company cutting off the same shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each day during which the water shall remain cut off, which penalty shall be recoverable summarily from the company by, and shall be paid to, the person aggrieved. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1888. 51 & 52 Vict., Cap. 41. An Act to amend the Laws *** 51 & 52 Vict., Cap. 41. Transfer to county council of administrative business 3. There shall be transferred to the council of each county on and after the appointed day, the administrative business of the justices of the county in quarter sessions assembled, that is to say, all business done by the quarter of quarter sessions or any committee appointed by the quarter sessions. sessions, in respect of the several matters following, namely, *** (viii.) Bridges and roads repairable with bridges, (xiii) The execution as local authority of the Acts *** 11. * * * *** Entire maintenance of (11.) Every authority having any power or duty to light main roads. the roads in their district shall have the same power and duty to light any main road in their district. *** [15. Council to have power to oppose Bills in Parliament.] 34. * * * * * * *** (3.) The provisions of this Act with respect to— *** shall not apply to county boroughs, * * * *** a 39. (1.) Where a borough, whether with or without separate court of quarter sessions, contained according to the census of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one a population of less than ten thousand, then after the ap(a) Short Title, the Local Government Act, 1888. See s. 102. Application of Act with modifications to county boroughs. Application of Act to all boroughs with population under 10,000. 51 & 52 Vict., Cap. 41. Application of London. Interpretation of certain terms in the Act. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50. Extent of Act. Short title. pointed day all powers, duties, and liabilities of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or council of the borough, or the watch committee of the borough in relation— shall cease, and *** the area of the borough shall for all purposes of the Acts relating to the *** matters above in this section mentioned, form part of the county in like manner as if it were not a borough; *** 40. * * * (8.) There shall also be transferred to the London county council the powers, duties, and liabilities of the Metropolitan Board of Works, *** *** 100. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say: The expression "County" does not include a county of a city or county of a town: *** The expression "borough" means any place for the time being subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and any reference to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of a borough shall include a reference to the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of a city: *** The expression "quarter sessions as respects any county, riding, division, or liberty, means the justices in quarter or general sessions assembled, and includes justices assembled in gaol sessions, annual general sessions, and adjourned sessions, and as respects any borough, means any court of quarter or general sessions held for the borough or for any county of a city or town consisting of the borough, whether held by the recorder or by justices, and as respects the city of London, means the court of the mayor and aldermen in the inner chamber: 101. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. 102. This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1888. *** 51 & 52 Vict., Cap. 53. BOROUGH FUNDS (IRELAND) 51 & 52 Vict., Cap. 53. An Act to authorise the [Introductory words.] 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Short title. Borough Funds (Ireland) Act, 1888. [For provisions of this Act corresponding to those of the Borough Funds Act, 1872, see under that Act, pp. 255-258.] |