Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No.1) Act 1897

• Jurisdiction: UK Non-devolved
• Citation: 1897 c. iv
• Year: 1897

[60 VICT.] Local

Government

Board's [Oh. iv j

Provisional Orders

Confirmation

(No. 1) Act, 1897.

CHAPTER iv.

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the

A.D.

1897.

Local Government Board relating to Leyton and

Walton upon Thames. [8th April 1897.]

W

HEEEAS the Local Government Board have made the

Provisional Orders set forth in the schedule hereto under

the provisions of the Public Health Act

1875:

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And whereas it is requisite that the said Orders should be

confirmed by Parliament and that the provision herein contained

should be enacted with reference thereto :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty

by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and

Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and

by the authority x)f the same as follows:—

1.

The Orders set out in the schedule hereto shall be and the Orders

same

are hereby confirmed and all the provisions thereof shall have ^firmed.

full validity and force.

2.

The district councils mentioned in the Orders hereby confirmed Special

shall not under the powers of those Orders purchase or acquire ^°^™

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either compulsorily or by agreement ten or more houses which on labouring

the fifteenth day of December last were occupied either wholly or class-

partially by persons belonging to the labouring class as tenants

or lodgers or except with the consent of the Local Government

Board ten or more houses which were not so occupied on the said

fifteenth day of December but have been or shall be subsequently

so occupied.

For the purposes of this section the expression "labouring

class"

includes mechanics artizans labourers and others working

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