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Public Works Loans Act 1875

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FIRST SCHEDULEWorks for the Purpose of which the Commissioners may lend Money

  • Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities.

  • Burial grounds provided by burial boards, or (in Scotland) by burial boards or parochial boards.

  • Conservation or improvement of rivers or main drainage.

  • Harbours and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorised to lend by section three of the [24 & 25 Vict. c. 47.] Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act, 1861.

  • Improvement of towns.

  • Labourers dwellings.

  • Lighthouses, floating and other lights for the guidance of ships, buoys and beacons.

  • Lunatic asylums of any county or borough in Great Britain, or of any district or parochial board in Scotland.

  • Police stations and justices rooms of any county or borough in Great Britain, and the offices connected therewith, also sheriff court buildings in Scotland.

  • Public libraries and museums.

  • Any schoolhouse or work for which a school board is authorised to borrow under the [33 & 34 Vict. c. 70.] Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and [36 & 37 Vict. c. 86.] 1873, or any Act amending the same, or under the [35 & 36 Vict. c. 62.] Education (Scotland) Act, 1872.

  • Waterworks established or carried on by a sanitary or other local authority.

  • Workhouses or poorhouses, and any work for which guardians of the poor, or (in Scotland) any parochial board, are authorised to borrow under the general Acts relating to the relief of the poor.

  • Any work for which a sanitary authority are authorised to borrow under the Public Health Act,

  • Any work for which police commissioners are authorised to borrow under the [25 & 26 Vict. c. 101.] General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, and any Act amending the same.

  • Any work for which a local authority are authorised to borrow under the [30 & 31 Vict. c. 101.] Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, or any Act amending the same.

  • Any work for which the Commissioners are authorised to lend by any Act passed after the passing of this Act.

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