Dunham Bridge (Amendment) Act 1994

Part VIMiscellaneous and general

59Stopping up, etc., of Dunham Bridge: discontinuance of undertaking

(1)If any order is made under any enactment for the stopping up of the highway over Dunham Bridge the Secretary of State may on the application of the Company, or in the event of the dissolution of the Company in accordance with section 53 (Dissolution of Company) of this Act the registered company, by order provide for the discontinuance of the undertaking, including provision for the repeal or amendment of the Act of 1830 or this Act and (if the order is made on the application of the Company) for the dissolution of the Company.

(2)Application for an order under this section shall be authorised by a special resolution of the Company, or as the case may be the registered company, and shall be accompanied by a draft of the order which it is desired that the Secretary of State should make.

(3)The Secretary of State may make an order in the terms of the draft submitted to him or in those terms as modified in such manner as he thinks fit.

(4)The power to make orders under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

60Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1830

In section 2 (Power to build the Bridge, &c.) of the Act of 1830 after the word “Bridge” in the last place where it appears there shall be inserted the words “works and approaches”.

61Repeals and consequential amendments

(1)Subject to the provisions of section 3 (Company to continue) of this Act, so much of the Act of 1830 as is specified in column (3) of Part I of Schedule 3 to this Act (which includes provisions which are spent, obsolete or unnecessary) is hereby repealed.

(2)The consequential amendments of the Act of 1830 specified in Part II of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect.

62Costs of Act

The costs, charges and expenses preliminary to, and of and incidental to, the preparing and passing of this Act shall be paid by the Company and may in whole or in part be defrayed out of revenue.