To confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to Ealing. Presented by Mr. Chamberlain. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 7 March 1928. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast; or through any Bookseller. Provisional Order Confirmation (Gillingham Extension). [H.L.] A BILL INTITULED An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the A.D. 1928. Minister of Health relating to Gillingham. HEREAS the Minister of Health has made the Provisional Order set forth in the Schedule hereto under the provisions of the Local Government 51 & 52 Vict. Act 1888: 5 And whereas it is requisite that the said Order should be confirmed by Parliament : Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present 10 Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: 15 c. 41. 1. The Order set out in the Schedule hereto shall Order in be and the same is hereby confirmed and all the schedule provisions thereof shall have full validity and force. confirmed. 2. This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Health Short title. Provisional Order Confirmation (Gillingham Extension) Act 1928. A.D. 1928. Provisional Order Confirmation (Gillingham Extension). SCHEDULE. Gillingham (Kent) Order. Definitions. BOROUGH OF GILLINGHAM. Provisional Order made in pursuance of the Local WHEREAS by virtue of section 54 of the Local Government 5 And whereas the existing Borough of Gillingham in the And whereas the Borough is coextensive with the Parish of Gillingham and is an urban district under the jurisdiction of the mayor aldermen and burgesses acting by the council; And whereas in pursuance of the Education Act 1921 the 20 Council of the Borough are the local education authority for the purposes of elementary education; And whereas the Parish of Rainham in the administrative county of Kent immediately adjoins the Borough of Gillingham and is a contributory place in the Rural District of Milton: 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 66 Existing" means existing immediately before the First day of April Nineteen hundred and twenty-nine; 25 30 Provisional Order Confirmation (Gillingham Extension). "The Act of 1888" and "the Act of 1894" mean A.D. 1928. 66 35 وو The added area means that portion of the Rural "The appointed day" means the First day of April "The Borough" means the existing Borough of Gillingham "The Corporation" means as the context requires the "The maps 66 means the duplicate maps marked "Map showing the area added to the Borough of Gillingham "by the Gillingham (Extension) Order 1928" and sealed with the official seal of the Minister; "The Minister means the Minister of Health; "The Parish of Gillingham" means that Parish as altered "The Representation of the People Acts" means the The Rural District" and "the Rural Council mean Gillingham (Kent) Order. 2. Where the day on which anything by this Order required Provision as to be done falls on a Sunday that thing shall be done on the to Sunday. following day. 3. Save as otherwise expressly provided this Order shall Commencecome into operation on the First day of April Nineteen hundred ment of 40 and twenty-nine : Provided that for the purposes of (a) the increase of the number of wards of the Borough Order. A.D. 1928. Gillingham (Kent) Order. Provisional Order Confirmation (Gillingham Extension). in the year Nineteen hundred and twenty-nine for any area affected by this Order; (b) the compilation alteration or re-arrangement of any register of electors made under the Representation of the People Acts; (c) Part IV. of this Order relating to rating and valuation (d) the selection by the Rural Council of two councillors this Order shall operate from the date of the Act of Parliament 5 10 Extension of Alteration of parishes. Alteration of petty sessional divisions. Deposit and copies of maps.' PART II. ALTERATIONS OF BOUNDARY. 4. (1) The boundary of the existing Borough shall be altered so as to include in addition to that area so much of the Rural District as comprises the Parish of Rainham and is coloured blue on the maps. (2) The Borough of Gillingham as extended by this Order shall for the purposes of the Municipal Corporations Acts and for all other purposes be the Borough of Gillingham. 15 20 5. The added area shall be separated from the Milton Union and shall be added to the existing Parish of Gillingham and the 25 Medway Union. 6. The added area shall be separated from the Sittingbourne Petty Sessional Division and shall form part of the Petty Sessional Division of Aylesford North. 7.-(1) One of the maps shall be deposited in the office 30 of the Minister and the duplicate map shall be deposited by the town clerk of the existing Borough at his office. (2) Copies of the map deposited with the town clerk certified by him to be true shall be sent by him within one month after the passing of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order to 35 the clerk to the County Council to the clerk to the Rural Council to the clerks to the Guardians of the Medway Union and the Milton Union 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 40 Agriculture and Fisheries and to the Electricity Commissioners. |