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WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874

WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874 - LONG TITLE

An Act to regulate the Incorporation of the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and for other purposes relating
thereto.{1}
[7th August 1874]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Works and
Public Buildings Act, 1874."

WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874 - SECT 2
Commissioners incorporated by 1851 c.42 to have the powers conferred
on subsequent Commissioners.

2. The Commissioners of Works as incorporated by and for the
purposes of the Crown Lands Act, 1851, are hereby declared to be,
and shall be a Corporation to all intents and purposes, and as
such shall have and hold, and may exercise not only all the
estates, property, interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or
enjoyed by them under that Act, but also all estates, property,
interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or held or enjoyed
by the Commissioners of Works as a Corporation under the
Commissioners of Works Act, 1852, or any subsequent Act....

WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874 - SECT 3
Duties of continuing Corporation.

3.... the continuing Corporation shall perform all the duties, and
be subject to and bear and discharge all the existing liabilities
of all the dissolved Corporations out of the funds applicable to
the same respectively, and shall have the benefit of all covenants
and agreements entered into with any of the dissolved Corporations.

WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT 1874 - SECT 4
Powers of Commissioners.

4. The first Commissioner and the other Commissioners for the time
being of Works, and all officers of the Commissioners of Works,
shall retain and have for the purposes of this Act in relation to
the Corporation hereby confirmed all the powers and authorities given
to or enjoyed by them in relation to any of the Corporations
hereby dissolved, and also all the powers and authority given to or
enjoyed by them by or under the Crown Lands Act, 1851, and the
Commissioners of Works Act, 1852.

Schedules rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)