HC Deb 17 March 1936 vol 310 cc404-6

In executing any works and in exercising any powers, s) far as the same shall affect any county bridges vested in the county council for the administrative county of Surrey (in this Section called "the county council"), in the parishes of Cobham and Stoke D'Abernon, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:

  1. (1) For the purposes of Section eight of the Gasworks Clauses Act, 1897, the notice to be served on the county council shall be not less than seven clear days instead of three clear days as therein provided;
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  3. (2) The plan required by Section nine of the said Act shall be accompanied by a section of the proposed works and shall be sent by the Company to the county council or their surveyor not less than one month before proceeding to execute the proposed works;
  4. (3) Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to affect the rights of the county council to remove, alter, or rebuild, in any manner they shall determine, any county bridge vested in them over, near to, or attached to which any mains, pipes, or works of the Company are carried, and the Company shall upon reasonable notice in writing under the hand of the clerk or the surveyor to the county council so to do, proceed to alter the position of such mains, pipes, and works as required by such notice and shall complete the same within a reasonable time, and all the expenses of any such alteration, together with all reasonable expenses incurred by the Company in temporarily carrying or supporting any mains, pipes, or works altered or affected or in maintaining the supply of gas and the pressure 406 thereof in such mains, pipes, and works shall be paid to the Company by the county council. Any difference arising under this sub-section shall be determined by two justices, as provided by Section nine of the Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847;
  5. (4) All works shall be so executed by the Company as not to stop the traffic and, so far as reasonably practicable, as not in any way to impede or interfere with the traffic over any county bridge or the approaches thereto."—[Dr. Burgin.]

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.

It being after Half-past Eleven of the Clock upon Tuesday evening, Mr. SPEAKER adjourned the House, without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.

Adjourned at One Minute after One o'Clock.