Cap. 172. 21. Any provisions in any of the Acts or schemes 61 & 62 Vict., referred to in Schedules A and B to this Act inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or repugnance Repeal. and the Acts referred to in Schedule A to this Act shall save so far as the same may have been repealed apply in regard to the Company throughout its district for the time being. SCHEDULE A. PART I. Acts of Parliament obtained by the Gas Light and Coke Company (A) The Gas Light and Coke Company's Act 1868. PART II. General Acts applicable to the Company so far as the same are not repealed in regard to the Company : The Gasworks Clauses Act 1847. The Gasworks Clauses Act 1871. The Metropolis Gas Act 1860. The City of London Gas Act 1868. MM 61 & 62 Vict., Cap. 172. SCHEDULE B. PART I. Schemes of Amalgamation under the City of London Gas Act 1868 and the Gas Light and Coke Company's Act 1871 respectively. London Gas Light Company. May 22nd 1883- July 1st 1883. 32 & 33 Vict., Cap. 130. SOUTH METROPOLITAN GASLIGHT 3. *** 4. AND COKE COM- The expression "superior courts *** Such parts of the Act of 1860 as are described in the first schedule to this Act, and any part of any special Act of the Company inconsistent with this Act, so far only as they respectively relate to the Company, are hereby repealed as from the thirtieth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and the Act of 1860 so amended shall as to the Company be read throughout as if the Board of Trade had been inserted therein instead of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. *** Certain sections of 23 & 24 Vict. C. 125., as in schedule to this Act, repealed. 8. In case of any loss arising from fraud of the Com- Loss from pany's servants, which the auditor shall certify has arisen frauds of from want of due diligence on the part of the directors, Company's servants to be such loss shall be deducted from the dividends which deducted from may be declared from time to time as aforesaid, and shall dividends. in no way interfere with or prevent the reduction in the price of gas to the consumers accruing from surplus profits. *** [12. Profits of Company limited. See now same Company's Act, 1896, s. 8, p. 546.] [13, 14. Application of excess of profits beyond 10 per cent. Repealed by same Company's Act, 1876, s. 10, p. 538.] 15. The Board of Trade shall, as soon as after the passing of this Act, appoint three may be Appointment compe- of referees. 32 & 33 Vict., Cap. 130. Continuance of referees. Quorum, &c. of referees. Certificates of referees. Governors for street lamps. Limit of charge for gas supplied to public lamps. Settlement of differences by arbitration. tent and impartial persons, one at least of them having practical knowledge and experience in the manufacture and supply of gas, who shall be called the gas referees (and who are in this Act referred to as the referees), and in case of a vacancy happening among them by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall appoint a competent and impartial person to fill the vacancy, one at least of the three being always qualified as aforesaid. 16. Every person appointed to be one of the referees shall continue in office for one vear only from the date of his appointment, but shall be capable of re-appointment. 17. Two of the referees shall be a quorum, and at least two of the referees shall concur in every act or determination of the referees. 18. A copy of each certificate of the referees required by this Act shall be sent by them to the Metropolitan Board of Works (a) and to the Company. [19-66. Testing, Illuminating Power and Price and revision of scale of same, Quarterly Report of Chief Gas Examiner, Register of Gas made, Forfeitures, Accounts, and Pressure of Gas. Repealed by same Company's Act, 1876, s. 10, p. 538.] 67. The Company, in supplying gas to public lamps, or the parish authorities, may, at their own expense, cause to be affixed to each lamp a street lamp governor, and the parish authorities or the Company (as the case requires) shall be entitled to have access thereto for the purpose of examining the same; and in case any dispute arises between the Company and the parish authorities with reference to the affixing, operation, or inspection of governors, the same shall be referred to the determination of the chief gas examiner, whose decision shall be final and conclusive. 68. The Company shall not charge a higher price per one thousand cubic feet for gas supplied to the public lamps than the lowest price per one thousand cubic feet charged by them at the same time to any private customer; but if the Company contend that there are special circumstances justifying them in charging a lower price to any other customer, the question shall be determined by arbitration whether or not such lower price shall be taken as the standard for the price to be charged, and the price fixed by such arbitration shall continue for two years at least. (a) Now London County Council. See Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40. (8.), p. 362. 69. Section thirty-eight of the Act of 1860 shall for the purposes of this Act be read as if "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," were therein mentioned instead of "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845." 32 & 33 Vict., Cap. 130. 70. The Company shall within six months of the Company to passing of this Act make a map of the district within make a map which their mains or pipes may be laid to a scale of of mains and appliances not less than three feet to a mile, and shall show beneath the thereupon the lines and sizes of all their existing mains public ways. or pipes excepting the service pipes, and shall once in every year, on or before the thirty-first day of December, correct such map and make such alterations in or additions thereto as may be necessary to show correctly as near as may be the lines, positions, and sizes of the various pipes, and shall keep such map in the principal office of the Company, and the same shall be open to the inspection of the Board of Works (a) and their officers and to the public generally, who may inspect or take copies of or extracts of the same, and the Company may charge and take the sum of one shilling for each inspection of such map, and the further sum of two shillings and sixpence for each extract, tracing, or copy taken of such map. default. 71. If the Company wilfully fail to comply with any Penalty on requirements of this Act in respect of such map, they Company for shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum which two justices of the peace may adjudge, not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds. use of gas to give security to Company. 72. When any person shall enter upon the occupa- Incoming tion of a house or premises to which at the time of tenants consuch entering gas is furnished by the Company, and tinuing the shall continue or propose to continue the use of such gas, he shall, if so required in writing by the Company or any of their officers, give to the Company security for the payment of the gas to be supplied to him, and for the rent of the meter, in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed by the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; and in the event of his failing to provide such security within seven days after it has been so required, the Company may discontinue the supply, without prejudice, nevertheless, to their right to recover from the said person the price of the gas consumed by him during his occupancy of the said house or premises. 73. Notwithstanding anything contained in "The Fixing miniMetropolis Gas Act, 1860," the Company shall not be mum rent for (a) Now London County Council. See Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40. (8.), p. 362. gas. |