Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10). A.D. 1927. under the provisions of sub-division (1) or of sub-divisions (1) and (2) of this article a greater average daily quantity of water in any year than forty-eight thousand gallons. Barry Order. (3) The Rural Council after having given a notice requiring a supply of water or any subsequent notice or notices requiring 5 an increased supply shall take and continue to take a supply of the quantity or quantities specified in such notice or notices so long as the Council shall continue to use the aqueduct conduit or lines of pipes Work No. 1 aforesaid. (4) Such supply shall be delivered from the said aqueducts 10 conduits or lines of pipes at such point or points not exceeding four as may be agreed upon between the Council and the Rural Council or failing agreement as shall be determined by arbitration. (5) The Rural Council shall pay to the Council for all water supplied under this article at the rate of such sum per thousand 15 gallons as may be agreed between the Council and the Rural Council or failing agreement shall be determined by arbitration under the provision hereinafter contained. (6) All water to be taken by the Rural Council shall be measured at each point at which it is taken by a meter or other 20 apparatus to be provided and maintained by the Council and let by them to the Rural Council upon such terms and at such rent as may be agreed upon between their respective engineers or failing agreement as shall be determined by arbitration The meter shall be placed in some suitable chamber or building and 25 on a site to be provided and maintained by the Rural Council and such meter and chamber and all pipes valves and other apparatus connecting the meter with the aqueducts conduits or lines of pipes from which the water is taken shall be fixed constructed and maintained by the Council at the cost of the 30 Rural Council and shall be under the control of the Council The Council and their engineers servants and workmen shall be entitled at all times to access to the valves and meters for the purpose of examination and recording the registration and of effecting at the cost of the Rural Council such repairs adjustments 35 and replacements thereof as may be necessary. (7) The register of the meter shall be primâ facie evidence of the quantity of water supplied by the Council through such meter. (8) If at any time the meter shall cease to register or shall 40 register incorrectly or shall at any time be removed for the purpose of repair or for any other reason then until such meter shall be repaired and refixed so as to register correctly the quantity of water passing through the same or until the same or some other meter correctly registering the water has been fixed 45 the meter shall be deemed to have ceased to register or to register incorrectly immediately after the date on which the meter was previously read by the Council and as from that date the Council Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10). shall be entitled to charge and the Rural Council shall be liable A.D. 1927. to pay for a daily quantity of water equal to the average daily quantity of water taken by the Rural Council under this article Barry Order during the nearest corresponding period of the previous year 5 with a reasonable addition in respect of any increased quantity or quantities of water which the Council may have been required by the Rural Council to supply under sub-division (2) of this article In the event of the meter at any time registering incorrectly the Council on becoming aware thereof shall repair 10 or replace the same with a correct meter within a reasonable time in that behalf and in the event of the meter being removed for any reason the Council shall refix or replace the same within such reasonable time. (9) The Council shall not be liable for any damage loss or 15 expense caused by any failure in the supply of water to the Rural Council if such failure shall be occasioned by frost unusual drought strikes or any cause beyond the control of the Council or during any time when the works of the Council shall be undergoing necessary repairs renewals or cleansing but no payment in 20 respect of the supply of water under this article shall be demanded by the Council in respect of the period during which such supply is suspended unless such suspension is due to any act or default of the Rural Council or any failure of any of their mains or works. (10) All accounts for water supplied under this article shall 25 be rendered quarterly by the Council to the Rural Council within twenty-one days after the first day of January the first day of April the first day of July and the first day of October in every year and each such account shall be discharged by the Rural Council within twenty-one days from the receipt thereof. 30 (11) Any difference which may arise between the Council and the Rural Council or their respective engineers under this article shall unless otherwise agreed be referred to a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the application of either party after notice 35 in writing to the other and subject thereto the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1889 shall apply to any such arbitration. (12) The Council and the Rural Council may agree in writing for any variation or alteration of the provisions of this article. distributed equally. 13. A reasonable proportion of the supply of water obtained Water pur40 by the Council from or by means of the aqueduct conduits or chased in lines of pipes Work No. 1 authorised by this Order shall be bulk to be distributed within the limits within which the Council are for the time being authorised to supply water and a further reasonable proportion of the water so obtained shall be supplied by the 45 Council to the Cardiff Rural District Council under the agreements between them and now in force for the supply of water in bulk. 14. (1) The Minister of Health may direct any inquiries to Inquiries and be held by his inspectors which he may deem necessary with expenses. Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10). A.D. 1927. reference to the purposes of this Order and such inspectors shall for the purposes of any inquiry have all such powers as they have Barry Order. for the purpose of inquiries directed by the Minister under the Public Health Act 1875. Short title. Basingstoke Audit of accounts of Corporation. (2) Where the Minister of Health causes any such inquiry 5 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 determine for the services of any inspector or officer of the Minister engaged in the inquiry) shall be paid by the Council 10 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. 15. This Order may be cited as the Barry Order 1927. Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this 15 Seventeenth day of May One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven. (L.S.) H. W. S. FRANCIS Assistant Secretary Ministry of Health. BOROUGH OF BASINGSTOKE. Provisional Order for altering a Local Act. 20 WHEREAS the Borough of Basingstoke (hereinafter referred And whereas by Section 52 of the Local Act provision is 30 made with regard to the keeping of accounts in respect of moneys received and paid under that Act; And whereas the Corporation have applied to the Minister of Health for the issue of a Provisional Order to alter the Local Act in manner hereinafter appearing : 35 Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers given to him by Section 303 of the Public Health Act 1875 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby orders that from and after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order the Local Act shall be altered and amended 40 so that the following provisions shall take effect that is to say : 1.—(1) Sections 25 26 and 27 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and Section 246 of the Public Health Act 1875 shall Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10). not apply in relation to any audit of the accounts of the A.D. 1927. Corporation or of the treasurer of the Borough or of the officers of the Corporation for the financial year ending the Thirty-first Basingstoke Order. day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight or 5 for any later financial year. (2) All such accounts whether under any public or any local Act or otherwise relating to matters dealt with by the Corporation in any capacity and including the accounts of any joint committee appointed by the Corporation with any other council (and 10 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 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. 15 (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 by district auditors of the accounts of an urban authority (not being the council of a borough) and of their officers shall apply 20 for the purposes of this Order as if they were herein re-enacted with the necessary modifications. 25 3390 35 40 45 2. The Corporation may out of the borough fund defray Power of reasonable expenditure incurred by them upon any of the Corporation following purposes : to defray certain (1) annual or other subscriptions to the funds of any expenses. (3) in connection with the presentation of the freedom of (4) in connection with occasions of public ceremony or (5) in the continuance of weekly allowances payment of (6) in the payment of gratuities (not exceeding in any case A.D. 1927. Basingstoke Short title. Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10). who may be disabled or injured in their service or may 3. This Order may be cited as the Basingstoke Order 1927. H. W. S. FRANCIS Assistant Secretary Ministry of Health. 10 BOROUGHS OF HARTLEPOOL AND HARTLEPOOL PORT SANITARY DISTRICT. Hartlepools Provisional Order for repealing certain Confirming Acts. 15 Order. WHEREAS by the Hartlepools Order 1881 which was confirmed And whereas by Section 7 of the Local Government Board's 25 Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1883 it is enacted that nothing in the said Act of 1883 contained shall lessen prejudice or interfere with the power of the Local Government Board to repeal alter or amend by Provisional Order to be confirmed by Parliament the said Act of 1881 so far as it relates 30 to the Hartlepool Port Sanitary Authority; And whereas the said Order has been amended by Orders made on the 17th day of May 1888 and the 13th day of April 1903 which Orders were respectively confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8) Act 1888 35 and the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 9) Act 1903; And whereas it is expedient that the above-mentioned Confirming Acts should be repealed so far as they relate to the said Orders and that the Joint Board should be reconstituted 40 as Port Sanitary Authority for the aforesaid area in manner hereinafter appearing : |