Metropolis Management Act 1855

Determination of Metropolitan Commission of Sewers

CXLV Powers of Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers to cease.

From and after the Commencement of this Act, all Duties, Powers, and Authorities vested in the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers shall cease to be so vested ; and in the meantime, and until such Commencement, the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, and the Act of the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twelve, and the Acts amending the same, shall continue in force.

CXLVI Actions, &c. not to abate, but to continue for or against Metropolitan Board of Works.

No Action, Suit, Prosecution, or other Proceeding whatsoever, commenced or carried on by or against the said Commissioners, shall abate or be discontinued or prejudicially affected by the Determination of the Powers of such Commissioners, but shall continue and take effect in favour of or against the Metropolitan Board of Works in the same Manner in all respects as the same would have continued and taken effect in relation to the said Commissioners if this Act had not been passed, and the Powers of the said Commissioners had continued in full Force ; and all Decrees and Orders made, and all Fines, Amerciaments, and Penalties imposed and incurred, respectively, previously to the Commencement of this Act, shall and may be enforced, levied, recovered, and proceeded for, and all administrative Proceedings commenced previously to the Commencement of this Act shall and may be continued, proceeded with, and completed, the Metropolitan Board of Works being, in reference to the Matters aforesaid, in all respects substituted in the Place of the said Commissioners.

CXLVII Rates made by Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers to be recoverable under this Act.

All Rates made by the said Commissioners previously to the Commencement of this Act, or so much thereof as may not have been levied and paid, shall be levied by and paid to the Metropolitan Board of Works, and such Board shall have the same Rights and Remedies in all respects in relation thereto as would have been had and might have been exercised by the said Commissioners; but all such Rates respectively shall, so far as Circumstances admit, be applied to the same Purposes as the same would have been applicable to in case the Powers of the said Commissioners had continued in force, and shall for the Purposes of such Application (where the Circumstances so require) be paid over by the Metropolitan Board of Works, or by their Order, to the Vestry or District Board having the Management of the Sewers in any Parish or District under this Act, or as such Vestry or Board may direct.

CXLVIII Property vested in Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers (except Sewers transferred to Vestries and District Boards) transferred to the Metropolitan Board of Works.

All Property, Matters, and Things whatsoever vested in the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, except such Sewers as are hereby vested in any Vestry or District Board, and except such Sewers as are not within the Limits of the Parishes and Places mentioned in the Schedules to this Act, shall be vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and all Persons who then owe any Money to the said Commissioners of Sewers, or to any Person on behalf of such Commissioners, shall pay the same to the Metropolitan Board of Works, or as they may direct; and all Monies then due and owing by or recoverable from the said Commissioners shall be paid by or recoverable from the Metropolitan Board of Works; and all Contracts, Agreements, Bonds, Covenants, and Securities theretofore made or entered into with or in favour of or by the said Commissioners, and all Contracts, Agreements, Bonds, Covenants, and Securities made or entered with or in favour of or by any former or other Commissioners, which under the said Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty were to take effect in favour of, against, and with reference to the said Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, and are now in force, shall take effect and may be proceeded on and enforced, as near as Circumstances admit, in favour of, by, against, and with reference to the Metropolitan Board of Works, as the same would have taken effect and might have been proceeded on and enforced in favour of, by, against, and with reference to the said Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers if this Act had not been passed, and the Powers of such Commissioners had continued in full Force; and any Retiring Pension or Allowance granted under Section Twenty-seven of the said Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty shall continue payable on the like Terms by the said Metropolitan Board of Works.