Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. LXIII. An act for promoting the public health. [31st August 1848.].

Date:
1848
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Credit: Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. LXIII. An act for promoting the public health. [31st August 1848.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Application of the Act. Exception •with respect to certain Local Acts for supplying Water. Consent of Town Coun- cil, &e. in certain Cases. affected thereby, and with the Clerk to the Commissioners or Trus- tees acting under any such Local Act, also with the Clerk to the Justices acting for any Petty Sessional Division in which such Parts may be, and with the Clerk of the Board of Guardians of the Union or Parish the whole or Part of which may be affected thereby; and if such Provisional Order relate to Parts not being within any Corporate Borough, the said Board shall cause other Copies of the same to be deposited with the Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor of any Parish in which such Parts or any of them may be ; and in case it shall be enacted by any Act of Parliament hereafter to be passed that the whole or Part of any Provisional Order or Orders of the General Board of Health shall be confirmed and be absolute, the whole or Part of such Provisional Order or Orders which shall be so confirmed shall be as binding and of the like Force and Effect as if the same had been expressly enacted by Parliament, and every such Act shall be deemed a Public General Act; but no such Provisional Order shall have any Force or Effect, nor shall this Act or any Part thereof be applied in either of the Cases last aforesaid, except for the Purposes of such Inquiry, further Inquiry, Report, or Provisional Order, without the previous Authority of Parliament; and no such Provisional Order, or any altered or amended Order, shall be made with respect to any Local Act of Parliament under which any Waterworks Company is empowered to construct Waterworks or supply Water for their own Profit, without the Consent of the Waterworks Company empowered by such Local Act first had and obtained : Provided always, that, except for the Purposes of Main Sewerage, no Corporate Borough or any Part thereof shall be included in any District not exclusively con- sisting of the whole or Part of One such Borough without the previous Consent of the Council under the Common Seal of the Borough ; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to require such Consent to the Constitution of a District exclusively consisting of the whole or Part of One such Borough for all or any of the Purposes of this Act, nor to hinder or prevent the Appli- cation of all or any of the Provisions of this Act to Parts ex- clusively consisting of the whole or Part of One such Borough, although the same Parts or any of them may have been already included within a District for the Purposes of Main Sewerage : Pro- vided also, that, except for the Purposes of Main Sewerage, no Parts beyond the Boundaries of a Corporate Borough shall be included in any District comprising the whole or Part of any such Borough, except upon the Petition of a Majority of the Owners of Property and Rate-payers who would be qualified to vote in the Election of Members of a Local Board of Health for the Parts proposed to be so included; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to require such Petition in order to the Constitution of a District exclusively consisting of Parts not within the Boundaries of any such Borough, nor to hinder or prevent the Application of all or any of the Provisions of this Act to a District exclusively consisting of such last-mentioned Parts, although the same Parts, or any of them, may have been already included within a District for the Purposes of Main Sewerage. XI. And
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