I Edw. 7. Amendment of 60 & 61 Vict. c. 38. Repeal. Application of Act. Commencement of Act. Short title and extent. herein-before mentioned, in lieu of the assessments mentioned in the principal Act, or the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, as the case may be. PART II. 6.-(1.) Section one hundred and forty-seven of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, shall be read as though the words " or in the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892," were inserted after the word "herein." (2.) Section two hundred and sixty-one of the principal Act shall be read and have effect as if for the words "for other purposes" the words "for these purposes substituted. were 7. The Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column in so far as the same apply to burghs to which this Act applies from its commencement. 8. The term "burgh" in this Act has the meaning assigned to it in the principal Act, but Part I. of this Act shall not apply (1) to any burgh to which the principal Act does not apply; (2) to any burgh in which at the passing of this Act a local Act (including an Act confirming a Provisional Order) is in force with respect to sewerage, drainage, or water supply. Provided that it shall be in the power of the town council of any burgh to which Part I. of this Act does not apply from its commencement by resolution to adopt Part I. of this Act, and from and after the date specified in such resolution Part I. of this Act shall come into force in the burgh, and the Acts specified in the schedule to this Act shall in so far as the same apply to such burgh be deemed to be repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column thereof and all local Acts (including as aforesaid) which apply exclusively to such burgh, so far as inconsistent with or dealing with the same matters as Part I. of this Act, shall also be repealed, which Acts or portions of Acts shall be specified in the resolution. Every such resolution shall be forthwith communicated to the Secretary for Scotland. 9. This Act shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, which date is herein called the commencement of this Act. 10. This Act may be cited as the Burgh Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scotland) Act, 1901, and shall apply to Scotland only. 2. The ***, and the Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, *** are (except where expressly varied by this Act) in- 10 & 11 Vict. corporated with and form Part of this Act. C. 15., incorporated. of Terms. 3. The several Words and Expressions to which by the Acts in whole or in part incorporated with this Act Interpretation Meanings are assigned have in this Act the same respective Meanings, unless there be in the Subject or Context something repugnant to the Construction; and the Expression "the Company" means the Gaslight and Coke Company; *** and the Expression "the Gas Limits ' means the Limits from Time to Time within which the Company may supply Gas; *** and the Expression the Metropolis" has the same Meaning as in the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; and the Expression "the Metropolitan Gas Companies means and includes the several Gas Companies mentioned in the Preamble to the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, other than the Company; *** and the Expression "Superior Courts," or "Court of competent Jurisdiction," or any other like Expression in this Act or any Act in whole or in part incorporated with this Act, shall for the Purposes of this Act be read and 31 & 32 Vict., Cap. 106. Company Power to Company and Metropolitan Gas Companies to make agree ments. Power to Company to lay down Mains, &c. generally. have effect as if the Debt or Demand with respect to which the Expression is used were a common Simple Contract Debt, and not a Debt or Demand created by Statute; *** *** 8. The Company shall be and continue subject to the Powers and Provisions of the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, and of any Act passed or hereafter to be passed for amending the same, and entitled to the Powers and Privileges of those Acts, as if this Act were not passed, so far as the same are not varied by this Act. *** 61. The Company on the one hand, and any or either of the Metropolitan Gas Companies on the other hand, may from Time to Time enter into and carry into effect Contracts and Agreements with respect to the following Purposes or any of them; that is to say, The Supply by the Company of Gas in Bulk to any other Company, Party to any such Agreement, for Distribution by such last-mentioned Company within their District: The laying down and maintaining of Mains or Pipes to connect the Mains of the Company with the Mains and Pipes of any such other Company already laid down, or hereafter to be laid down, within the District of such last-mentioned Company: The Payments to be made for, and the Terms and Conditions upon which, such Supply shall be afforded, and such Mains and Pipes shall be laid down and maintained. Gasworks 62. Subject to the Provisions of the Clauses Act, 1847, and of the Acts for the Time being in force relating to the Local Management of the Metropolis, the Company from Time to Time may lay down, make, alter, discontinue, remove, and renew Gas Mains, Pipes, and other Apparatus, with all Cuts, Drains, Watercourses, and other requisite incidental Works and Conveniences, in, through, along, across, or under the Streets within the Gas Limits and the other Streets in that Behalf specified in this Act, and for that Purpose may break up and interfere with Streets, Railways, Bridges, Rivers, Aqueducts, Cuts, Canals, and other Places within the Gas Limits and those other Streets, and may break up and interfere with any Sewers, Drains, and Pipes in, over, or under the same. |