A.D. 1926.

Ealing
Order.

Audit of

accounts of

Urban

Councils and

overseers.

Inquiries by
Minister and

expenses of
inquiries.

Pending legal

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the consent of any other authority and subject to the requirement that all money so borrowed shall be repaid within such period as the Minister may sanction.

65. (1) The accounts of the Urban Councils and of their committees and officers and of the Overseers of the abolished 5 Parishes shall be made up to the appointed day and shall be audited by the district auditor in like manner and subject to the like incidents and consequences as if this Order had not been made.

(2) Any sum certified by the district auditor to be due from 10 any person at the audit of the accounts of either of the Urban Councils shall be paid to the Corporation and any sum so certified at the audit of the accounts of the overseers of a parish abolished by this Order shall be paid to the Brentford Guardians.

66. (1) The Minister may direct any inquiries to be held 15 by his inspectors which he may deem necessary in regard to the exercise of any powers conferred upon him by this Order and his inspectors for the purposes of any inquiry shall have all such powers as are conferred upon them for the purposes of inquiries directed by the Minister under the Public Health Act 1875.

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(2) Where the Minister causes any local inquiry to be held with reference to any of the purposes of this Order the costs incurred in relation to that inquiry (including the expenses of any witnesses summoned by the inspector and such reasonable sum not exceeding five guineas a day as the Minister may deter- 25 mine for the services of any inspector engaged in the inquiry) shall be paid by such local authorities and in such proportions as the Minister may direct.

(3) The Minister may certify the amount of the costs so incurred and any sum so certified and directed by the Minister 30 to be paid shall be a debt due to the Crown.

67.-(1) If immediately before the appointed day any action cause of action or proceeding is pending or existing by proceedings. or against either of the Urban Councils in relation to their District or by or against the Overseers of any of the abolished Parishes 35 in relation to their Parish the same shall not be in anywise prejudicially affected by reason of this Order but may be continued prosecuted and enforced by or against the Corporation or by or against the Overseers of the Parish of Ealing (as the case may require). 40

Existing contracts and

instruments.

(2) All legal proceedings pending immediately before the appointed day may be amended in such manner as may be necessary or proper in consequence of this Order.

68. All contracts deeds bonds agreements and other instruments (subsisting immediately before the appointed day) entered 45 into or made by either of the Urban Councils or by the Overseers

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Ealing

Order.

of any of the abolished Parishes shall be of as full force and AD 1926. effect against or in favour of the Corporation or the Overseers of the Parish of Ealing (as the case may require) and may be continued and enforced as fully and effectually as if instead of 5 that Urban Council or the Overseers of the abolished Parish the Corporation or the Overseers of the Parish of Ealing had been a party thereto.

of aldermen

69. Any alderman councillor or guardian who is to continue Saving for in office after the appointed day shall not during his present qualification 10 term of office be deemed to lose his qualification for being an councillors alderman councillor or guardian by reason of the alterations of and guar area made by this Order.

dians.

70. Notwithstanding the alterations of area effected by this Saving for Order all contribution orders and precepts made or issued before contribution 15 the appointed day shall be as valid in law as if this Order had orders and precepts. not been made. 71. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as restricting Saving for the powers of the Minister under the Acts relating to the Relief powers of Minister &c. of the Poor or the powers of the Secretary of State the Minister 20 or of any county council under the Act of 1888 or the Act of 1894.

districts.

72. Nothing in this Order shall affect the powers of the ParliamenCounty Council under Section 31 of the Representation of the tary polling People Act 1918 or any order or scheme made by the County Council for the division of the Parliamentary County of Middlesex 25 into polling districts and the appointment of polling places for parliamentary elections.

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73. Nothing in this Order shall alter or in any way affect the ecclesiastical divisions of any parish or the area of any petty sessional division.

Ecclesiastical petty sessional

divisions and

divisions.

undertakers.

74. Nothing in this Order shall alter the area for the supply Saving for of gas or water by the Gas Light and Coke Company or by the gas and Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company or shall water prejudice or affect the existing rights and powers of either of those Companies or subject to the article in Part III. of this 35 Order relating to the Metropolitan Water Board alter the limits of supply or affect the existing rights and powers of that Board. 75. Nothing in this Order shall affect the provisions of the Saving for Rating and Valuation Act 1925. 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 90.

76. This Order may be cited as the Ealing (Extension) Short title. 40 Order 1926.

A.D. 1926.

Provisional Order Confirmation (Ealing Extension).

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Ealing
Order.

WARDS OF THE BOROUGH FOR THE ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS
AND ELECTORAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE BOROUGH FOR
THE ELECTION OF COUNTY COUNCILLORS.

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Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health
this Eighteenth day of May Nineteen hundred and
twenty-six.