1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.69: Continuance of Turnpike Acts

1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.69: An Act to continue until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain Turnpike Acts.

[22d August 1843.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for removing Doubts as to the Continuance of certain Local Turnpike Acts, whereby all the Local Acts for regulating, making, or repairing Turnpike Roads in Great Britain (except as therein excepted), which, unless continued by some Public General Act, would have expired with the Session of Parliament in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, or at any Time since, and at or before the End of the Session of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, were further continued: And whereas the said and also other like Acts will expire on or before the First of October next, or at the End of this Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that all the said Acts be further continued: Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all the said Acts (except as excepted in the first-recited Act and as herein-after excepted) shall continue in force until the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to continue an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually amending certain Roads in the several Parishes of Lambeth, Newington, Saint George Southwark, Bermondsey, and Christchurch in the County Surrey, and for watching, lighting, and otherwise improving the said Roads, except so far as the said Act repeals any former Act.

III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

Source: Collection of Public General Statutes, 1843.