Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

LightingU.K.

And with respect to lighting the town or district, be it enacted as follows:

119 Commissioners may contract for lighting the streets.U.K.

The commissioners may contract for the prescribed period, or (where no period shall be prescribed) for any period not exceeding three years at any one time, with the owners of any gasworks, or with any other person, for the supply of such gas or oil or other means of lighting, and may provide such lamps, lamp posts, and other works, as the commissioners think necessary for lighting such streets.

120 For ascertaining price to be paid for gas, in case of dispute.U.K.

If the commissioners, and the owners of any gasworks authorized by Act of Parliament to supply gas within the limits of the special Act, and with whom the commissioners may be desirous of contracting, shall not agree as to the price to be paid for such supply, then such price shall be settled by arbitration; and for that purpose the clauses of the M1Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbitration, shall be incorporated with this and the special Act.

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