Metropolis Management Act 1855

Interpretation and Commencement of Act

CCL Interpretation of Terms :" the Metropolis : " " the City of London : " " Parish : " " the Overseers of the Poor : " " Rates : " " Owner : " " Street : " " Drain: " " Sewer : " " Ashpit. "

In the Construction of this Act " the Metropolis " shall be deemed to include the City of London, and the Parishes and Places mentioned in the Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) to this Act; " the City of London " shall be deemed to include all Parts now within the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London; and the Word " Parish " shall include any Place mentioned in Schedule (A.) to this Act, and any Place or Combination of Places mentioned in Schedule (B.) to this Act, for which One or more Member or Members is or are to be elected to any District Board; the Expression " the Overseers of the Poor " shall include any Persons authorized to make and collect or cause to be collected the Rate for the Relief of the Poor in any Parish; any Expression referring to any Rate or Rates raised under this Act by the Metropolitan Board of Works or any Vestry or District Board shall mean the Sums and Rates authorized to be raised by the said Metropolitan Board and the Sums authorized to be raised by any Vestry and District Board respectively ; the Word " Owner " shall, except for the Purpose of the Provision of this Act requiring Notice to be served on Owners or reputed Owners of Land, before Application to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for his Consent to exercise Powers of taking Land, or any Right or Easement in or over Land, compulsorily, mean the Person for the Time being receiving the Rackrent of the Lands or Premises in connexion with which the said Word is used, whether on his own Account or as Agent or Trustee for any other Person, or who would so receive the same if such Lands or Premises were let at a Rackrent; the Word " Street " shall apply to and include any Highway (except the Carriageway of any Turnpike Road), and any Road, Bridge (not being a County Bridge), Lane, Footway, Square, Court, Alley, Passage, whether a Thoroughfare or not, and a Part of any such Highway, Road, Bridge, Lane, Footway, Square, Court, Alley, or Passage; the Word " Drain " shall mean and include any Drain of and used for the Drainage of One Building only, or Premises within the same Curtilage, and made merely for the Purpose of communicating with a Cesspool or other like Receptacle for Drainage, or with a Sewer into which the Drainage of Two or more Buildings or Premises occupied by different Persons is conveyed, and shall also include any Drain for draining any Group or Block of Houses by a combined Operation under the Order of any Vestry or District Board ; and the Word " Sewer " shall mean and include Sewers and Drains of every Description, except Drains to which the Word " Drain," interpreted as aforesaid, applies ; and the Word " Ashpit " shall include " Dustbin."

CCLI Commencement of Act.

This Act shall commence and come into operation, save as herein otherwise provided, on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.