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Metropolis Management Act 1855
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240 Saving of powers and property of Commissioners under 14 & 15 Vict. c. 95.U.K.
This Act shall not divest the Commissioners for carrying into execution the Crown Estate Paving Act 1851, and the subsisting provisions of the Acts therein recited, or [F1the Secretary of State] of any of the powers, duties, authorities, or property vested in them respectively under the said Acts; and nothing in this Act shall extend to authorise or empower any [F2council of an inner London borough] to exercise any power or control whatsoever in respect of paving, maintaining, lighting, watering, cleansing, and regulating any streets or places in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament, delineated on a plan marked E., referred to by the M1Crown Estate Paving Act 1851, or any portion of the district now under the management of the Commissioners for carrying into execution the said Crown Estate Paving Act, and the subsisting provisions aforesaid, or to exercise any power or control whatsoever in or over any of the gardens or pleasure grounds the management whereof is now or may for the time being be vested in such last-mentioned Commissioners; nor shall any such street or place, or any portion of such district, as aforesaid, be assessed or rated under this Act for defraying any expenses incurred by any [F2council of an inner London borough] in relation to paving, lighting, watering or cleansing; but such streets, places, and district shall be subject . . . F3 to be assessed or rated for sewerage expenses incurred by any such [F2council of an inner London borough] and for expenses incurred by [F2the Greater London Council] and towards any sums required to be raised by such Board under this Act as by this Act provided.
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F1Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. 1945/991 (Rev. XV, p. 232: 1945I, p. 1414), arts. 1,2, S.I. 1962/1549 and 1970/1681, arts. 2, 6(3)
F2Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1965/540, Sch. 1 para. 4
F3Words repealed by Public Health (London) Act 1936 (c. 50), Sch. 7
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