Provisional Order Confirmation (Hove Extension)..

with other areas be added to the County Borough of Brighton A.D. 1927. and that subject to the confirmation of this Order by Parliament

the common boundary between the County Borough and the Hove Order. Borough of Hove should be altered by the transfer of an area 5 from the Borough to the County Borough and of another area from the County Borough to the Borough and that the common boundary should be further altered and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of the agreement between the Brighton Corporation and the Hove Corporation set forth in the Third 10 Schedule to the Bill:

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Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers given to him by sections 54 and 59 of the Local Government Act 1888 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby orders as follows:

PART I.

INTERPRETATION AND COMMENCEMENT.

1. In this Order unless the context otherwise requires-
"Existing" in relation to any area altered by this Order
or by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927 means
existing immediately before the First day of April
Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight;

"The Act of 1888" and "the Act of 1894" mean
respectively the Local Government Act 1888 and
the Local Government Act 1894;

"The added areas" means the existing Parish of Hangleton
which is coloured green on the Borough maps the
existing Parish of Preston Rural which is coloured
blue on the Borough maps the added part of Patcham
and the added part of West Blatchington;

"The added part of Patcham" means the part of the
existing Parish of Patcham which is coloured yellow
on the Borough maps;

"The added part of West Blatchington " means the part
of the existing Parish of West Blatchington which is
coloured brown on the Borough maps;

"The appointed day" means the First day of April
Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight;

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'The Borough" means the existing Borough of Hove as
extended by this Order and as altered by the Brighton
Corporation Act 1927;

"The Borough maps" means the duplicate maps marked
"Map of the Borough of Hove as altered by the
"Hove (Extension) Order 1927 and by the Brighton

Definitions.

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ment of Order.

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"Corporation Act 1927" and sealed with the official seal of the Minister;

"The Brighton Corporation Act 1927" means any Act passed during the present session of Parliament for the extension of the boundaries of the County Borough 5 of Brighton and for the alteration and adjustment of the boundary between that County Borough and the Borough of Hove;

"The Corporation" means as the context requires the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the existing 10 Borough or of the Borough acting by the Council;

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The County" and "the County Council mean respectively the administrative county of East Sussex and the County Council of that County;

The Minister means the Minister of Health; "The Municipal Corporations Acts" means the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and the Acts amending and extending the same and the Borough Councillors (Alteration of Number) Act 1925;

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The Parish of Hove" means that Parish as altered by 20 this Order and by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927; "The Parish of West Blatchington means that Parish as diminished by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927; The Rural District" and "the Rural Council" mean respectively the Rural District of Steyning East and 25 the Rural District Council of Steyning East;

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"The Ward maps means the duplicate maps marked
'Map of the Wards of the Borough of Hove as
"altered by the Hove (Extension) Order 1927 and
"the Brighton Corporation Act 1927" and sealed 30
with the official seal of the Minister.

2. Save as otherwise expressly provided this Order shall come into operation on the First day of April Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight :

Provided that for the purposes of

(a) The division of the Borough into wards and all proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held in the year Nineteen hundred and twentyeight for any area affected by this Order;

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(b) The compilation alteration or re-arrangement of any 40 register of electors made under the Representation of the People Acts 1918 to 1926; and

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(c) The revision of the basis of the county rate of the A.D. 1927. County or the preparation of any precept or contribu

tion order to be made on or after the appointed day;

this Order shall operate from the date of the Act of Parliament 5 confirming this Order.

PART II.

ALTERATIONS OF BOUNDARY.

Hove Order.

3.-(1) The boundary of the existing Borough (the area Extension of whereof is coloured pink and grey on the Borough maps) as Borough. 10 altered by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927 shall be further

altered so as to include in addition to that part of the existing Borough which is coloured pink on the Borough maps so much of the Rural District as comprises the existing Parish of Hangleton the existing Parish of Preston Rural the added part of Patcham 15 and the added part of West Blatchington.

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(2) The boundary of the Borough shall be that shown by the red line on the Borough maps and the whole of the area within that boundary shall for the purposes of the Municipal Corporations Acts and for all other purposes be the Borough.

4.—(1) The added part of Patcham shall be separated from Alteration of the existing Parish of Patcham and shall be added to the existing parishes. Parish of Hove as altered by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927.

(2) The existing Parish of Preston Rural shall be added to the existing Parish of Hove as altered by the Brighton Corporation 25 Act 1927.

(3) The added part of West Blatchington shall form a separate parish within the Borough by the name of the Parish of West Blatchington.

(4) The existing Parish of Hangleton shall continue to be a 30 separate parish but wholly situate within the Borough.

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5.-(1) One of the Borough maps and one of the Ward maps shall be deposited in the office of the Minister and the duplicate of each map shall be deposited by the town clerk of the existing Borough at his office.

(2) Copies of the Borough map deposited with the town clerk certified by him to be true shall be sent within one month after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order to the clerk of the County Council to the town clerk of Brighton to the clerk to the Rural Council to the clerk to the Steyning Guardians 40 to the Board of Inland Revenue to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to the Registrar-General to the Board of Trade to the Minister of Transport to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and to the Electricity Commissioners and copies of the

Deposit and copies of Borough and

Ward maps.

A.D. 1927.

Hove Order.

Copies of Borough map to be evidence.

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Ward map so deposited and certified in like manner shall be sent within the same period to the clerk of the County Council to the town clerk of Brighton to the clerk to the Steyning Guardians to the Registrar-General and to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

6. (1) Copies of or extracts from the Borough map deposited with the town clerk certified by him to be true shall be received in all courts of justice and elsewhere as primâ facie evidence of the contents of the map so far as it relates to the boundary of the Borough.

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(2) The Borough map deposited with the town clerk shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any person liable to any rate leviable within the Borough and any such person shall be entitled to a copy of or extract from the map certified by the town clerk to be true on payment of a reasonable fee to be 15 determined by the Corporation.

(3) All fees so received shall be carried to the borough fund.

Municipal wards and existing councillors.

PART III.

PROVISIONS CONSEQUENT ON EXTENSION OF BOROUGH.

7. Subject to the provisions of the Municipal Corporations 20 Acts the following provisions shall have effect:

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(1) For the purposes of the election of councillors the
Borough shall be divided into the ten wards mentioned
in column 1 of the First Schedule to this Order and the
wards shall be designated by the names appearing in 25
that column;

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(2) Each ward shall comprise that portion of the Borough
which is indicated by a separate colour and distinguished
by the name of the ward on the Ward maps;
(3) Three councillors shall be assigned to each ward;
(4) Any person in office immediately before the appointed
day as a councillor representing one of the existing
municipal wards shall continue to represent the ward
of the same name constituted by this Order until the
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Order had not been made;

(5) If immediately before the appointed day a casual vacancy
shall exist in the representation of one of the existing
municipal wards the vacancy shall be deemed to have
arisen in the ward of the same name constituted by this 40
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8. The persons who hold office immediately before the A.D. 1927. appointed day as mayor and aldermen of the existing Borough shall on the appointed day become the mayor and aldermen of Hove Order. the Borough but shall respectively retire from office on the day Existing 5 on which they would have retired from office if this Order had mayor and not been made.

aldermen.

Councils

9. For the purposes of the application to the Borough of County and the provisions of the County and Borough Councils (Qualifica- Borough tion) Act 1914 the added areas and the area transferred to the 10 Borough by the Brighton Corporation Act 1927 shall be deemed tion) Act to have always formed part of the Borough.

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10. For the purpose of the election of county councillors-
(1) The added areas shall be separated from the Patcham
Electoral Division;

(2) The Borough shall be divided into seven electoral
divisions of the County to be designated by the names
appearing in column 2 of the First Schedule to this
Order and each electoral division shall be coextensive
with the area of the one or two of the new municipal
wards mentioned in column 1 of that Schedule which
are opposite the name of the new electoral division
in column 2 of the Schedule.

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County electoral divisions.

11. The powers and duties of the justices of the peace Jurisdiction appointed for the existing Borough and of the clerk to those of Borough 25 justices shall extend to and apply throughout the Borough :

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Provided that

(a) every person committing an offence in any part of the
added areas prior to the appointed day shall be tried
and dealt with as if this Order had not been made;
(b) every proceeding which prior to the appointed day
has been begun by or is pending before any justice
in relation to any matter arising in or concerning any
part of the added areas may be continued or com-
pleted in like manner and with the like incidents and
consequences as nearly as may be as if this Order
had not been made.

justices extended &c.

12. Subject to the provisions of this Order all property Corporation immediately before the appointed day vested in the Corporation property for the benefit of the existing Borough (not being property held liabilities &c. 40 on any charitable trust) shall by virtue of this Order be held by

the Corporation for the benefit of the Borough and the Corporation shall hold enjoy and exercise for the benefit of the Borough all the powers which immediately before that day are exercisable by or vested in the Corporation for the benefit of the