Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

119 Commissioners may contract for lighting the streets.U.K.

The commissioners may contract for the prescribed period, or (where no period shall be prescribed) for any period not exceeding three years at any one time, with the owners of any gasworks, or with any other person, for the supply of such gas or oil or other means of lighting, and may provide such lamps, lamp posts, and other works, as the commissioners think necessary for lighting such streets.