*** 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 58. 32. Every parish council elected in pursuance of this Act shall be incorporated under the name of the parish council of the parish, with power to sue and be sued, and Incorporation shall have perpetual succession. 44.-(1.) It shall be lawful in a county for a parish council or for any two or more parish councils, or for not fewer than ten parish electors of any landward parish or of the landward part of any parish partly landward and partly burghal, to make a requisition in writing to the district committee of the county council, or when a county is not divided into districts to the county council, calling upon them to form such parish or parishes or landward part of a parish or any portion or portions thereof into a special district for the following purposes or any one or more of them; that is to say, of parish Formation of lighting and scavenging districts and provision of public baths. (a.) The lighting of the special district and the [(2.)-(8.) Provisions relating to formation of such districts.] (9.) From and after the first election in a county of parish councillors, sub-section one of section eighty-one of the principal Act shall be read as if for the words "shall "in part consist of persons, whether members of the "district committee or not, who are resident within the special drainage district or special water supply district," there were substituted the words “shall in whole or in part "consist of parish councillors of the parish or parishes in "which the special district is situated, whether members "of the district committee or not," and the number of a sub-committee appointed under the said section may, failing agreement between a district committee or county council and a town council or the commissioners of a police burgh, be determined by the Secretary for Scotland. c. 55. (10.) Upon the formation of a special lighting district under the provisions of this section it shall be lawful for the district committee to adopt the Burghs Gas Supply 39 & 40 Vict. (Scotland) Act, 1876, and any Act amending the same, c. 49. but in such case the provisions of the principal Act with respect to capital, expenditure, borrowing, and audit of accounts shall apply in lieu of the corresponding pro 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 58. Definitions. visions of the former Acts or of this section; and in the application of the former Acts the expression “burgh" shall be construed to mean special lighting district, “commissioners" "town council and "commissioners of police" to mean district committee, and "elector" and ratepayer" to mean a person registered as a county elector the subject of whose qualification is situated within the special lighting district. *** 54. Expressions used in his Act have the same meaning, if not inconsistent with the context, as expressions used in the principal Act: Provided that, if not inconsistent with the context *** The expression "parish" means a parish quoad civilia which is at the passing of this Act or may hereafter be constituted a separate parish for the purposes of settle ment and relief of the poor, and includes a combination of parishes within the meaning of section sixteen of the Poor Law (Scotland) Act, 1845: The expression" burghal parish" means a parish which is wholly comprised within the boundaries of a burgh, and the expression "landward parish" means a parish no part of which is comprised within the boundaries of a burgh: The boundaries of burghs for the purposes of this Act shall be held to be the boundaries thereof as the same are or may be ascertained, fixed, or determined for police purposes, under the provisions contained in any general or local Act of Parliament, or, when no police assessment is levied, as the same are or may be ascertained, fixed, or determined for municipal purposes: The expression "burghal part of a parish" means any part of a parish comprised within the boundaries of a burgh, and the expression "landward part of a parish" means any part of a parish not comprised within the boundaries of a burgh : 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 187. THAMES CONSERVANCY 1894. ACT, 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 187. An Act to amend the constitution of and consolidate amend and extend the statutory powers of the Conservators of the River Thames to make further provision for the preservation and improvement of the said River for purposes of Navigation for profit and pleasure and as a source of Water Supply for the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof and for other [17th August 1894.] purposes. [Preamble]. PART I. 1. This Act may be cited as the Thames Conservancy Short title. Act 1894. *** 3. In this Act the following words and expressions Interpretahave the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively tion. unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction namely: : The word "Conservators means Conservators of The expression "the Common Council" means the The expression" the metropolitan water companies 57 & 58 Vict.,Cap. 187. The expression the secretary" means the secretary of the Conservators; *** The expression "the Thames " means and includes so much of the Rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade in the county of Wilts and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Yantlet Creek in the county of Kent to the City Stone opposite to Canvey Island in the county of Essex and so much of the River Kennet as is between the common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the River Thames and so much of the River Lee and Bow Creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act 1868 mentioned and all locks cuts and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks Provided that no dock lock canal or cut existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority and no bridge over the River Thames or the River Kennet belonging to or vested in any county council or municipal authority or to or in any railway company shall be deemed to form part of the Thames ; The word shore" means the shores of the Thames so far as the tide flows and reflows between high and low water marks at ordinary tides; *** The word "vessel" includes any ship lighter keel barge launch house-boat pleasure or other boat randan wherry skiff dingey shallop punt canoe yacht raft float of timber or craft whatever however navigated; The word master "when used in relation to any vessel means any person whether the owner master or other person lawfully or wrongfully having or taking the command charge or management of the vessel for the time being; The expression "daily penalty" means a penalty for each day on which any offence is continued after conviction therefor; The word "London" used in connexion with the *** publication of any notice or byelaw (proposed or Poliution. 90. In the provisions of this Act relating to pollution the word "tributary" means and includes the whole and every part of any and every river stream watercourse cut dock canal channel and water being within all or any of the several counties of Gloucester Wilts Oxon Bucks Berks Hants Surrey Middlesex Herts Essex and Kent and administrative county of London and being within the catchment area of the Thames and communicating either directly or indirectly with the Thames except as follows:(1.) So much as is more than three miles from the Thames of every river stream watercourse cut dock canal channel and water which first communicates whether directly or indirectly with the Thames at a point eastward of the western boundary of the county of London ; (2.) (3.) So much of the River Lee as is above the scuth boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act 1868 mentioned; Every river stream watercourse cut dock canal (4.) Every cut dock and canal belonging to any of 91. It shall be the duty of the Conservators by all lawful and proper means to preserve and maintain at all times as far as may be the flow and purity of the water of the Thames and its tributaries down to the western boundary of the county of London and to cause the surface of the Thames and its tributaries within three miles of the Thames to be (as far as is reasonably practicable) effectually scavenged down to the said western boundary in order to the removal therefrom of substances liable to putrefaction. 92. If any person without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie upon him) does any of the following things namely:(1.) Unloads throws or puts or causes or suffers to fall any gravel or any substance which has been used as ballast or any stones earth mud ashes FF 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 187. Interpretation in provisions of this Act relating to pollution. Duty of Conservators to preserve flow and purity of water. Prohibition of throwing ballast, &c. into river or allowing offensive matter to flow into it. |