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RULE IX. The plans and sections to be deposited under Plans and Part II. of Schedule B. with respect to waterworks shall be such plans and sections as would be required by the Standing Orders for the time being of the Houses of Parliament, if the promoters instead of applying for a Provisional Order were proceeding by Private Bill.

RULE X.-The following Standing Orders must be also com- Plans, &c., to be plied with * :deposited in Parliament.

STANDING ORDER of the HOUSE OF Lords. Whenever plans, sections, books of reference, or maps are deposited in the case of an application to any public department or county council for a Provisional Order or Certificate, duplicates of the said documents shall at the same time be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, provided that, with regard to such deposits as are so made at any public department or with any county council after the prorogation of Parliament, and before the 30th day of November in any year, such duplicates shall be so deposited on or before the 30th day of November."

STANDING ORDER of the HOUSE OF COMMONS.

"Whenever plans, sections, books of reference, or maps are deposited in the case of an application to any public department or county council for a Provisional Order or Provisional Certificate, duplicates of the said documents shall, at the same time, be deposited in the Private Bill Office; provided that, with regard to such deposits as are so made at any public department or with any county council after the prorogation of Parliament, and before the 30th day of November in any year, such duplicates shall be so deposited on the 30th day of November.'

DEPOSITS ON OR BEFORE 23RD DECEMBER.
SCHEDULE B.-(PART III.)

[See Act, p. 205.] +

RULE XI. The following documents, &c., must also be Deposits on 23rd deposited at the Board of Trade on the 23rd December :

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December.

List of railways, tramways, and canals, and copy

of notice.

List of local and road authorities.

(1.) A complete list of every railway, tramway, and canal along or across which it is proposed to lay any pipes, or otherwise to affect or interfere with, together with the names and addresses of the owners or reputed owners and lessees or reputed lessees thereof, and a certified copy of the notice served upon them. (2.) When the application includes a power to construct any gasworks or waterworks or works connected therewith, a list of the local and road authorities in whose districts the proposed works are situated, including the clerk to the justices in cases where it is proposed to lay any pipes across county bridges. (3) A complete list of every company, corporation, or person List of gas or supplying gas or water (as the case may be) within the district and a certified copy of the notice served upon them. (4.) A complete list of the mill-owners, &c., referred to in section 5 (2) of the Act, and a certified copy of the notice served upon them.

(5). A complete list of every owner, lessee, or occupier within 300 yards of any proposed gas works or works for the storage of gas, and a certified copy of the notice served upon them. (6.) In cases where no new gasworks are proposed, a plan showing the site of the existing gasworks and the proposed enlargement thereof (if any).

These Standing Orders refer to amended as well as to original plans.
The advertisement referred to in the form of memorial in the schedule may be

in print and pasted on to the body of the memorial.

water companies,
and
copy of
notice.

List of millowners, &c., and copy of notice.

List of persons within 300 yards of proposed gasworks, and copy of notice.

Additional plan.

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Statement of capital.

Description of land.

Memorandum and Articles of Association, &c.

Fee.

Form of draft
Provisional
Order.

Resolution as to

(7.) A statement of the existing capital of the promoters, showing the amount authorised, raised, and expended, and in the case of applications for additional capital, a statement setting forth, under separate heads, all the purposes for which the additional capital is required. (This statement must be furnished whether the promoters have parliamentary powers or not.)

(7a) A copy of the printed accounts presented to the shareholders for the half-year next preceding the application.

(8.) A description of the land (if any) which the promoters propose to purchase for the purposes of gasworks or waterworks. (The contracts for the purchase of all the lands required must be produced at the time fixed for proving compliance with the Act and these Rules.)

(9.) A list of every Provisional Order or Act of Parliament (if any) of the promoters; and where the promoters are a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, a printed copy of the Memorandum of Association, Articles of Association, and any registered special resolution of the Company; and, in case of a company incorporated in any other manner, a copy of every deed or instrument of settlement or incorporation.

(10.) A fee of 35., by cheque payable to an "Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade." (This fee will not necessarily be taken to cover the costs of inquiries or other matters arising out of the application; with respect to costs in such matters, security must be given from time to time by the promoters as the Board of Trade may require.)

RULE XII. The draft Provisional Order must be in triplicate, and must have the land proposed to be taken scheduled thereto. It must be printed on one side only of the page of paper, so as to leave the back of the page blank, and any schedule annexed must begin a new page. The names and addresses of the agents of the Provisional Order must be printed on the outside of the draft Order, and there should be a notice at the end of it stating that objections are to be addressed to the Assistant Secretary of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade on or before the 15th January next ensuing, that copies of the objections must at the same time be sent to the promoters, and that in forwarding such objections to the Board of Trade the objectors or their agents should state that a copy of the same has been sent to the promoters or their agents.

RULE XIII-In the case of any application for additional additional capital. capital by promoters having parliamentary powers, a certified copy of the resolution of three-fourths of the shareholders present and voting at a special general meeting approving of the application, together with a copy of the notice convening the meeting, must be furnished before the application can be entertained.

Resolutions as to agreements and amalgamations.

Proofs of compliance with Act and rules.

RULE XIV. When an application includes power for two or more companies supplying gas or water (as the case may be) in any district to enter into agreements jointly to furnish gas or water, and to amalgamate their undertakings, certified copies of the resolutions passed by three-fourths of the shareholders of each company present and voting at a special general meeting called for the purpose of considering the application, with a copy of the notice convening the meeting, must be furnished before the application can be entertained.

PROOFS OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT AND RULES.

RULE XV.-The Agents must be prepared to prove compliance with the provisions of the Act and these Rules by the 15th January, and all such proofs must be completed on or before the 22nd

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February. Six days' notice will be given of the day and hour at which the Agents are to attend for the purpose at the Board of Trade, and printed forms of proof will accompany the notice. These forms should be filled up by the Agents, and brought with the requisite documents to the Department at the time fixed for proof.

If any local or road authority, railway, tramway, or canal Company, or any other Company, body, or person, desires to have any clauses or other amendments inserted in the Order they must deliver the same to the Agents for the Order, and also to the Board of Trade, on or before the 8th February: Provided that no such delivery shall prejudice the right of the party making such delivery to oppose the Order.

On or before the 22nd February the Agents must give to the Board of Trade a filled up draft printed Order (in duplicate), containing in manuscript all such clauses or other amendments as have been agreed upon.

If any of the clauses or other amendments which have been delivered to the agents are not settled with the consent of both parties, the Agents must, so far as they can, on or before the 22nd February, show what are the amendments, if any, which each party would be willing to accept.

After the 22nd February no further proposals for clauses will be entertained by the Board of Trade.

DEPOSIT AND ADVERTISEMENT OF ORDER AS MADE.* SECTION 8.-"When a Provisional Order has been made as "aforesaid and delivered to the undertakers, the undertakers "shall forthwith deposit and publish the same by advertisement "according to the regulations contained in Part IV. of the Schedule (B.) to this Act."

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SCHEDULE B.-(PART IV.)

[See Act, p. 205.] +

RULE XVI.-When a Provisional Order has been made, and before it is introduced into the Confirmation Bill, the promoters will be required to submit to the Board of Trade the following proofs, viz. :

(1) The receipt of the clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk, or to prove by affidavit the deposit of the Order with such officer as required by Part IV. of Schedule B. to the Act.

(2.) A copy of the local newspaper containing the advertisement of the Order. This advertisement must have a short heading stating that the Order has been made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, previous to its being introduced into a Confirmation Bill, and must also state the office where printed copies of the Order can be obtained which must be the office named in the original advertisement of the application for the Order.

(3.) Proof must also be given that the advertised Order is a correct copy of the Order delivered by the Board of Trade to be advertised, that it was inserted in the newspaper in which the original advertisement of the application for the Order was published, and that a sufficient number of printed copies of the Order have been deposited for sale at the office named in the original

*Section 9 of the Act requires that the Order as made shall be deposited and advertised not later than the 25th April. See p. 200.

The Board of Trade consider that the price to be inserted in s. (2.) of Schedule B. Part IV. should not be more than one shilling.

Deposit and advertisement of Order as made.

Proofs of deposit
and advertise-
ment of Order
as made.

Prolongation of time for commencement or

completion of works.

advertisement, with a statement of the price for which they may be obtained.

Printed forms for these proofs will be furnished by the Board of Trade when the Order is sent to the promoters to be advertised, and these must be filled up by the promoters and brought or forwarded to the Department with the requisite documents as soon as possible after the advertisement and deposit have been made.

PROLONGATION OF TIME FOR COMMENCEMENT OR
COMPLETION OF GAS AND WATER WORKS.

The Board of Trade, under the powers conferred upon them by section II of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, have made the following rules with respect to applications for a prolongation of time for the commencement or the completion of the works authorised by any order made under the above-named Act:— 1. The application should be in the form of a memorial setting forth the grounds on which the application is made, and must be made at least one month before the expiration of the time prescribed for the commencement or the completion of the works as the case may be.

2. The undertakers of any gas or water undertaking authorised by
any Order, who intend to apply to the Board of Trade for a
prolongation of the time limited for the commencment or the
completion of the works authorised by such Order, shall
publish by advertisement, once at least in two successive
weeks, in some one and the same newspaper circulating in
the district affected by such Order, a notice of their intention
to apply to the Board of Trade for a prolongation of time.
3. The notice must state the period to which it is proposed to
prolong the time limited for the commencement or the
completion of the works, as the case may be, and must
contain a notification that all persons desirous of making any
representation to the Board of Trade, or of bringing before
them any objection respecting the application, may do
so by letter addressed to the Assistant Secretary of the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade, on or before a
day to be named in the advertisement, being not less than 21
days from the date of the first publication of the advertise-
ment, and that copies of their representations or objections
are at the same time to be sent to the undertakers.

4. A similar notice must be delivered to every local and road
authority, and to every company, corporation, or person
supplying gas or water, as the case may be, within the
district affected by the Order, and in the case of water which
is authorised by an order to be abtracted from a stream, to
the owners, lessees, and occupiers of mills, manufactories, and
other works using the water of such stream, to whom notice was
required to be given the application for such Order, before
the second publication of the notice. Copies of newspapers
containing the notice, and a statement that a copy of it has
been duly served on all the parties above mentioned, as
required by these rules, must be sent to the Board of Trade
with the application.

5. Before the Board of Trade comply with the application they will impose such conditions (if any) as they think fit.

COURTENAY BOYLE.

Board of Trade (Railway Department),

August 1886.

APPENDIX B.

Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, and Gas and Water
Works Facilities Act, 1870, Amendment Act, 1873.

REGULATIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD
IN REGARD TO PROVISIONAL ORDERS. (a)
TO THE

URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITIES for the Urban Sanitary Districts in ENGLAND and WALES; and to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS by Section 5 of "The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, it is enacted that the Undertakers intending to make application for a Provisional Order in pursuance of that Act, shall (amongst other things), on or before the 30th day of the month of November next before their application, deposit the documents described in Part II. of Schedule B. to that Act, according to the regulations therein contained;

And whereas by Part II. of Schedule B. aforesaid it is provided that the Undertakers shall deposit (amongst other things) a proper plan and section of the proposed new works, if any, such plan and section to be prepared according to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Board of Trade in that behalf;

And whereas by Section 6 of the said Act it is further enacted that the Board of Trade shall consider the application for any such Provisional Order as aforesaid, and also any objection thereto that may be lodged with them on or before such day as they from time to time appoint, and shall determine whether or not the Undertakers may proceed with the application;

And whereas by Section 14 of "The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, Amendment Act, 1873," it is enacted as follows:

[See s. 14 of the Act, p. 202.]

And whereas by Section 161 of The Public Health Act, 1875, it is enacted that—

Where an Urban Sanitary Authority may under that Act themselves undertake to supply gas for the whole or any part of their District, a Provisional Order authorising a gas undertaking may be obtained by such Authority, under and subject to the provisions of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, and any Act amending the same; and in the construction of the said Act the term 'the undertakers" shall be deemed to include any such Urban Sanitary Authority: Provided that, for the purposes of that Act, the Local Government Board shall throughout the said Act be deemed to be substituted for the Board of Trade.

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And whereas by an Order dated the 26th day of October, 1877, We, the Local Government Board, prescribed regulations with regard to the proceedings to be taken by Urban Sanitary Authorities in connection with applications made by them for Provisional Orders as aforesaid, and by a further Order dated the

(a) Corresponding Regulations as to Ireland, made under the Public Health Ireland) Act, 1878, and dated 27th January, 1882, may be obtained at the office of the Local Government Board for Ireland, Custom House, Dublin.

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