56 & 57 Vict., lines and works lawfully placed in any position and Cap. 202. used for telegraphic communication made prescribed or imposed by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 or under any special Act or Provisional Order or licence under the provisions of the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 or either of them. Notice to General. 22. With regard to subways which the PostmasterGeneral is entitled to use under the Telegraph Act 1878 the company shall not under the power of this Act or any bye-law or regulation made under this Act be required to place or maintain any pipe or wire in any subway in which any telegraphic line of the Postmaster-General for the time being is placed until the Council shall have given notice in writing to the Postmaster-General describing the pipe or wire proposed to be placed in the subway and the position and manner in which the pipe or wire is proposed to be laid and used or worked and if within fourteen days after the service of such notice the Postmaster-General shall in writing object thereto on the ground that the placing or using or working of the pipe or wire in the position or manner proposed would injuriously affect such telegraphic line the company shall not be required so to place such pipe or wire unless or until the objection is withdrawn. For protection 23. Nothing in this Act or in any bye-law or regulaof Postmaster- tion made under this Act shall apply (except by way of protection) to the Postmaster-General or to any telegraphic line belonging to or used by the Postmaster-General or to any support or attachment thereof and nothing in this Act or in any such bye-law or regulation shall be deemed to take away abridge or prejudicially affect any right or privilege conferred upon the Postmaster-General by the Telegraph Acts 1863 to 1889 or any of them or enjoyed or exercisable by the Postmaster-General Provided that persons resorting to any subway by the authority of the Postmaster-General shall be subject to the bye-laws to be made under this Act with respect to the control and regulation of persons resorting to the subways and the prohibition of any interference with any means of access to any subway. Act not to apply to any pipe or wire authorised to Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to confer on the Postmaster-General any greater power of using any subway of the Council than he has at the date of this Act. 24. This Act shall not apply to any pipe or wire authorised to be laid or placed by any Provisional Order or licence under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 or under any special Act incorporating the said Acts or (in respect of such wires) to any company authorised to lay or place the same. 56 & 57 Vict., Cap. 202. be laid under 25. Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to Electric authorise the Council to confer any powers of placing Lighting Acts. wires for electric lighting purposes in any subway on any Not to company body or person not authorised so to place such authorise wires by a special Act Provisional Order or licence under placing the provisions of the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888. unauthorised wires in subways. ments under this Act. 26. All costs and expenses of the Council in the execution of this Act (except so far as they may be, other- As to pay wise provided for by this or any other Act) shall be defrayed as payments for general county purposes within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1888 and the costs charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing applying for obtaining and passing of this Act shall be paid by the Council in like manner. 56 & 57 Vict., Cap. 73. Transfer of powers under adoptive Acts. 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 90. Additional powers of parish council. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1894. 56 & 57 Vict., Cap. 73. An Act to make further *** 7.-(1.) As from the appointed day, in every rural parish the parish meeting shall, exclusively, have the power of adopting any of the following Acts, inclusive of any Acts amending the same (all which Acts are in this Act referred to as "the adoptive Acts") namely,— (a.) The Lighting and Watching Act, 1833; (7.) When any of the adoptive Acts is adopted for the whole or part of a rural parish after the appointed day, and the parish has a parish council, the parish council shall be the authority for the execution of the Act. *** 8. (1.) A parish council shall have the following additional powers, namely, power— *** (e) *** to utilise any well, spring, or stream within their parish and provide facilities for obtaining water therefrom, but so as not to interfere with the rights of any corporation or person; and (i) to execute any works (including works of maintenance or improvement) incidental to or consequential on the exercise of any of the foregoing powers, or in relation to any parish property, not being property relating to affairs of the church or held for an ecclesiastical charity; and (k) *** to contribute towards the expense of doing any of the things above mentioned, or to agree or combine with any other parish council to do or contribute towards the expense of doing any of the things above mentioned. (a) Short Title, the Local Government Act, 1894. See s. 77. Cap. 73. (3.) Nothing in this section shall derogate from any 56 & 57 Vict., obligation of a district council with respect to the supply of water or the execution of sanitary works. *** [16. Complaint by parish council of default of district council.] * * * Names of tricts and district 21. As from the appointed day,(1.) Urban sanitary authorities shall be called urban county disdistrict councils, and their districts shall be called urban districts; but nothing in this section shall alter the style councils. or title of the corporation or council of a borough: (2.) For every rural sanitary district there shall be a rural district council whose district shall be called a rural district: (3.) In this and every other Act of Parliament, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "district council" shall include the council of every urban district, whether a borough or not, and of every rural district, and the expression "county district" shall include every urban and rural district whether a borough or not. *** 33.—(1.) The Local Government Board may, on the application of the council of any municipal borough, including a county borough, or of any other urban district, make an order conferring on that council or some other representative body within the borough or district all or any of the following matters, namely, the appointment of overseers and assistant overseers, the revocation of appointment of assistant overseers, any powers, duties, or liabilities of overseers, and any powers, duties, or liabilities of a parish council, and applying with the necessary modifications the provisions of this Act with reference thereto. Power to apply certain provisions of Act to urban districts and London. 76. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. Extent of Act. 77. This Act may be cited as the Local Government Short title. Act, 1894. *** 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 58. Short title. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 50. Extent of Act. Establishment of parish councils. Parochial boards to cease. Parish councils to take the place of parochial boards. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOT LAND) ACT, 1894. 57 & 58 Vict., Cap. 58. An Act to establish a Local 1. This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894, and this Act, and the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, (herein-after called the principal Act,) shall, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be construed as one Act, and may be cited together as the Local Government (Scotland) Acts. 2. This Act shall extend to Scotland only. *** 8. A council, in this Act referred to as a parish council, shall be established in every parish. *** 21. On and after the fifteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, all enactments regulating the constitution and election of parochial boards shall be repealed, and the parochial board of any parish shall continue to hold office only until the said day, and no longer; and on and after such day, every reference in any Act of Parliament, scheme, deed, or instrument to a parochial board constituted under the law in force at the passing of this Act, shall be read and construed as referring to a parish council constituted under this Act. 22. A parish council shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, come in place of a parochial board and shall be deemed to be a continuance thereof, and a parish council shall have and may exercise all the powers and duties, and shall be subject to all the liabilities of a parochial board, and all the provisions of any Act of Parliament in force at the passing of this Act relating to or dealing with the powers and duties of parochial boards, and the appointment, powers, and duties of their officers, in so far as not inconsistent with this Act, shall subsist and have effect. |