Provisional Orders (No. 1).

Sections repealed.

Section 129 (Only one storey in roof).
Section 134 (Regulations as to external
walls).

Section 136 (Prohibition of thatch).
Section 141 (Corporation may make bye-
laws as to new streets buildings &c.).
Section 142 (Plans &c. to be deemed
approved if Corporation neglect to notify
the contrary).

Section 163 (All sewers &c. to be covered
with traps).

Section 60 (Entrances to courts &c. not to be closed &c. without consent of Corporation).

Section 66 (As to space about old buildings) Section 71 (Power of surveyor on inspecting).

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Section 69 (Amendment of section 124 of the Local Act of 1869).

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St. Helens Corpora-
tion Act 1911.

Section 76 (Amendment of section 54 of the Local Act of 1893 as to intersecting streets).

Section 90 (Reconstruction of drains).

Section 40 (Corporation may determine 25
width of carriageway and footway in
new streets).

Section 41 (Building line in new streets to

be shown on plan).

Section 56 (As to buildings of iron steel or 30

reinforced concrete).

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health
this Thirteenth day of February One thousand nine 40
hundred and twenty-eight.

Provisional Orders (No. 1).

URBAN DISTRICT OF SKELMERSDALE.

A.D. 1928.

Provisional Order for altering the Southport Birkdale and Skelmersdale West Lancashire Water Board Act 1907.

Order.

WHEREAS the Urban District Council of Skelmersdale (herein5 after referred to as "the Council ") are the local authority within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1875 for the Urban District of Skelmersdale (hereinafter referred to as "the District ") and the unrepealed provisions of the Southport Birkdale and West 7 Edw. 7. Lancashire Water Board Act 1907 (hereinafter referred to as c. lxviii. 10"the Local Act") as altered by the Skelmersdale Order 1915 which was confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1915 are in force in the District;

And whereas by Section 4 of the Local Act the agreement (hereinafter referred to as "the scheduled agreement") made 15 between the Council and the Southport Birkdale and West Lancashire Water Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Water Board") which is set forth in the First Schedule to the Local Act was confirmed and made binding upon the Council and the Water Board;

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And whereas by the scheduled agreement it was provided that the Council should sell and the Water Board should purchase for the sum of twenty-two thousand five hundred pounds the waterworks of the Council described in the scheduled agreement and that the Water Board should pay to the Council part of the 25 said sum by way of the execution or issue to the Council of a mortgage or mortgages (hereinafter referred to as "the waterworks mortgages ") for the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred pounds and by the scheduled agreement provision was made for the redemption of the waterworks mortgages;

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And whereas by Section 11 of the Local Act the Council were authorised to hold the waterworks mortgages or to sell or dispose of the waterworks mortgages and were required to invest the proceeds of any such sale and any sum received by them on the redemption of the waterworks mortgages in statutory securities 35 as by the said section defined until the same should be applied under the provisions of Section 12 of the Local Act;

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And whereas the Council have made application to the Minister of Health for the issue of a Provisional Order to alter or amend the Local Act in the manner hereinafter set forth :

Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers given to him by Section 303 of the Public Health Act 38 & 39 Vict. 1875 and by any other Statutes in that behalf hereby orders c. 55.

Provisional Orders (No. 1).

A.D. 1928. that from and after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order the Local Act shall be altered so that the following Skelmersdale provisions shall take effect that is to say :

Order. Power to

borrow on security of waterworks mortgages.

Repayment

1.-(1) The Council may with the approval of the Minister of Health borrow on the security of the waterworks mortgages 5 any sums which they may require for the purposes of the water supply of the District including the payment of the costs charges expenses and liabilities incurred or to be incurred by the Council in connection with incidental to or in any way relating to the scheduled agreement or any further agreement which may be 10 entered into between the Water Board and the Council relating to the supply of water in bulk or any legal proceedings or arbitration in connection therewith.

(2) The moneys borrowed in pursuance of this Article shall of borrowed if not previously repaid be repaid out of the principal moneys 15 to be received by the Council on the redemption of the waterworks mortgages.

moneys.

Modification

2. The Council and the Water Board may from time to time or amendment enter into and carry into effect agreements for the modification and amendment of the scheduled agreement.

of scheduled

agreement.

Inquiries and

expenses.

Short title.

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3. (1) The Minister of Health may direct any inquiries to be held by his inspectors which he may deem necessary with reference to the purposes of this Order and such inspectors shall for the purposes of any inquiry have all such powers as they have for the purpose of inquiries directed by the Minister under 25 the Public Health Act 1875.

(2) Where the Minister of Health causes any such inquiry to be held with reference to any of the purposes of this Order the costs incurred by the Minister in relation to that inquiry (including such sum not exceeding five guineas a day as the Minister may 30 determine for the services of any inspector or officer of the Minister engaged in the inquiry) shall be paid by the Council and the Minister may certify the amount of the costs so incurred and any sum so certified and directed by the Minister to be paid by the Council shall be a debt due to the Crown from the Council. 35 4. This Order may be cited as the Skelmersdale Order 1928.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Twenty-seventh day of January One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

(L.S.)

E. TUDOR OWEN

Assistant Secretary Ministry of Health.

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Provisional Orders (No. 1).

WALLINGFORD AND CROWMARSH JOINT

HOSPITAL DISTRICT.

A.D. 1928.

Provisional Order for altering the Local Government Wallingford
Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8)
Act 1899.

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WHEREAS by virtue of the Wallingford and Crowmarsh Hospital Order 1899 which was confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8) Act 1899 (which Order and Act are hereinafter referred to respectively as 10"the Order of 1899" and "the Confirming Act of 1899") the Borough of Wallingford the Rural District of Crowmarsh and the Rural District of Wallingford constitute a United District called the Wallingford and Crowmarsh Joint Hospital District of which the governing body is the Wallingford and Crowmarsh 15 Joint Hospital Board (hereinafter called "the Joint Board "); And whereas by Article 19 of the Order of 1899 provision is made with respect to the proportions in which the Constituent Authorities shall contribute to the common fund of the Joint Board;

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And whereas it is expedient that the Order of 1899 should be altered as hereinafter provided :

Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers given to him by Section 297 of the Public Health Act 1875 and by any other statute in that behalf hereby orders as follows:

and Crowmarsh Order.

1. This Order shall come into operation on the First day of Date of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and may be operation cited as the Wallingford and Crowmarsh Hospital Order 1928 and and short. the Order of 1899 and this Order may be cited together as the Wallingford and Crowmarsh Hospital Orders 1899 and 1928.

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2. The following clause shall be substituted for subdivision (2)
of Article 19 of the Order of 1899 namely :—
(2) The common fund so far as the same is not
provided by the aforesaid payments shall be contributed
by the Constituent Authorities in proportion to the net
annual value of their respective Districts and for the
purposes of this provision the net annual value of the said
Districts shall mean the net annual value as defined in the
Rating and Valuation Act 1925 such net annual value being
ascertained from the valuation lists in force on the First
day of April prior to the date of the issue of precepts."

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health
this Twenty-first day of February One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-eight.

title.

Expenses of

Joint Board.