Provisional Orders (No. 1). A.D. 1926. and altered so that the following provisions shall take effect that is to say : Port Talbot Order. Audit of accounts of 1.-(1) Sections 25 26 and 27 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and Section 246 of the Public Health Act 1875 shall Corporation. not apply to the accounts of the Corporation or of the treasurer 5 of the Borough or of the officers of the Corporation for the financial year ending the Thirty-first day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven or for any later financial year. Power of (2) All such accounts whether under any public or any local Act or otherwise relating to matters dealt with by the Corporation 10 in any capacity and including the accounts of any joint committee appointed by the Corporation with any other council (and of the officers of any such joint committee) shall be made up and audited in like manner as the accounts of an urban authority for the execution of the Public Health Acts (not being the council 15 of a borough) and of their officers are made up and audited and shall be in such form as the Minister of Health may prescribe. (3) Sections 247 and 250 of the Public Health Act 1875 Section 58 of the Local Government Act 1894 and all enactments amending those Sections or relating to the accounts and audit 20 by district auditors of the accounts of an urban authority (not being the council of a borough) and of their officers shall apply for the purposes of this Order as if they were herein re-enacted with the necessary modifications. 2. The Corporation may out of the borough fund defray 25 Corporation reasonable expenditure incurred by them upon any of the to defray following purposes :certain expenses. (1) annual or other subscriptions to the funds of any association of municipal corporations or other local authorities or their officers formed for the purpose of 30 consultation as to their common interests and the discussion of matters relating to local government; (2) the attendance of any members or officers of the Corporation (not exceeding in any case four) at conferences or meetings of any such association and in the 35 purchase of reports of the proceedings of any such conferences or meetings; (3) in connection with the presentation of the freedom of the Borough to persons whom the Corporation may resolve to admit as honorary freemen; or (4) in connection with occasions of public ceremony or festival or in the reception or entertainment of distinguished persons or persons attending any 40 5 10 Provisional Orders (No. 1). conference or meeting held in the Borough and A.D. 1926. convened by any association or society. 3. This Order may be cited as the Port Talbot Order 1926. Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Port Talbot Order. Short title. (L.S.) E. TUDOR OWEN Assistant Secretary Ministry of Health. ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM JOINT SEWERAGE DISTRICT. Provisional Order altering the Local Government Board's Rochester and Provisional Orders Confirmation-(No. 17) Act 1914. WHEREAS by the Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage Order 1914 which was confirmed by the Local Government 15 Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 17) Act 1914 (which Order and Act are hereinafter respectively referred to as "the Order of 1914" and "the Confirming Act ") the City of Rochester and the Borough of Chatham were formed into a United District called the Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage 20 District for the purposes therein mentioned and the United District was thereby placed under the government of the Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board"); And whereas by Article XIV. of the Order of 1914 as altered 25 by the Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage Order 1923 (hereinafter referred to as "the Order of 1923 ") which was duly confirmed by Parliament the Board were authorised and required to construct certain sewage purification and sewage outfall works; And whereas the Board have made application to the 30 Minister of Health for the issue of a Provisional Order to amend the Order of 1914 as altered by the Order of 1923 in the manner hereinafter set forth : Now therefore the Minister of Health in the exercise of the powers given to him by Section 297 of the Public Health Act 35 1875 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby orders that from and after the date of the Act of Parliament Chatham Provisional Orders (No. 1). A.D. 1926. and the Confirming Act so far as it relates to the said Order shall be amended as follows: Rochester and Chatham Order. Alteration of requirements as to sewage outfalls. Sewage tidal storage tanks to be provided if required by Minister. Inquiries and expenses. Short title. 1.-(1) The sewage outfalls the construction of which was authorised by paragraph (a) of sub-division (1) of Article XIV. of the Order of 1914 shall be situate at a point distant 450 yards 5 or thereabouts measured in a north-easterly direction from the entrance to the Motley Hill Dock instead of at a point distant 560 yards from the said entrance. (2) The pipes of the said outfalls shall not extend to a distance of more than 280 yards measured from the centre of the sea bank 10 along the course of the said pipes. (3) If at any time the Minister of Health deems it expedient that the outfalls aforesaid should be constructed in accordance with the requirements of the said paragraph (a) or more nearly in accordance with those requirements than is provided in this 15 Article the Minister may by Order so direct and the provisions of this Article shall be modified accordingly. 2. (1) The obligation of the Board under sub-division (4) of Article XIV. of the Order of 1914 to construct sewage tidal storage tanks shall not be enforced unless and until the Minister 20 of Health by Order so directs. (2) Until the Minister of Health by Order otherwise directs the Board may notwithstanding anything contained in subdivisions (4) and (5) of Article XIV. of the Order of 1914 discharge the effluent at the outfalls at any state of the tide. 25 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 the 30 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 35 Minister may determine for the services of any inspector or officer of the Minister engaged in the inquiry) shall be paid by the Board 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 Board shall be a debt due to the Crown from 40 the Board. 4. This Order may be cited as the Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage Order 1926 and the Order of 1914 the Order of 5 Provisional Orders (No. 1). 1923 and this Order may be cited together as the Rochester and A.D. 1926. Chatham Joint Sewerage Orders 1914 to 1926. Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Rochester and 66 CITY OF WAKEFIELD. Provisional Order for altering a Local Act. 10 WHEREAS the City of Wakefield (hereinafter referred to as the City") is an Urban District of which the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens acting by the Council (hereinafter referred to as "the Corporation ") are the local authority for the purposes of the Public Health Act 1875 and there are in force in the City 15 the unrepealed provisions of the Wakefield Corporation Act 1916 (hereinafter referred to as "the Local Act "); And whereas by section 50 of the Local Act the Corporation were empowered to exercise their statutory borrowing powers by the use of moneys standing to the credit of the sinking funds 20 created for the repayment of certain loans; And whereas the Corporation have made application to the Minister of Health for the issue of a Provisional Order to amend the Local Act in the manner hereinafter set forth: Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the 25 powers given to him by Section 303 of the Public Health Act 1875 and of any other powers in that behalf hereby orders that from and after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order the Local Act shall be amended as in manner following that is to say : 30 Wakefield 1. In this Order the expression "statutory borrowing Interprepower" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Act. 2. Section 50 of the Local Act is hereby repealed. tation. Repeal of section of Act. 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Act Use of or in any other Act the Corporation may use for the purpose moneys forming 35 of any statutory borrowing power possessed by them any moneys forming part of any fund accumulated for the redemption of part of sinking debt or as a reserve renewals depreciation contingent insurance and other superannuation or other similar fund (in this Article respectively funds. Provisional Orders (No. 1). A.D. 1926. required for the purpose for which the moneys have been accumulated subject to the following conditions : Wakefield Short title. (a) the moneys so used shall be repaid to the lending fund Provided that the Corporation may if they so determine repay to the lending fund the money so used at any time within the period aforesaid; (b) Interest shall be paid to the lending fund on any moneys 15 (c) The statutory borrowing power for the purpose of which 25 4. This Order may be cited as the Wakefield Order 1926. Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Third day of February One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six. 35 |