Metropolitan Sewers Act 1851
![]() Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |
Long title | An Act to amend and continue the Metropolitan Sewer Act |
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Citation | 14 & 15 Vict. c.75 |
Territorial extent | Ireland |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 7 August 1851[1] |
Status: Spent |
The Metropolitan Sewers Act 1851 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act extended and amended the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act 1848 and the , which would have otherwise expired at the end of that session of Parliament, until the end of the session of Parliament underway on 7 August 1852.[1] The Act was superseded by the further Metropolitan Sewers Acts in , , and .
Amendments[]
The provisions of the Act were:[1]
- That the Queen may appoint commissioners from the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers to be the Commission's chair and deputy chair.
- That the salary of the Chair would be set at £1,000 per year.
- That the Chair would also be chair at Courts of Sewers and that they would hold a casting vote at such meetings.
- That the quorum for Commission meetings would be two.
- That for meetings of the Commission to raise rates, borrow money, make a mortgage or grant an annuity six Commissioners must be present.
- That six Commissioners need not be present if a court order allows otherwise.
References[]
- ^ a b c A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Fouth Session of the Fifteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 367-8.
Categories:
- United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1851
- 1851 in British law
- 1851 in London
- Water supply and sanitation in London