Metropolitan Streets Act 1885

1885 CHAPTER 18

An Act to extend the Area to which the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, applies.

[21st May 1885]

WHEREAS by the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, provisions are made for regulating the traffic of the metropolis and for the greater security of persons passing through the streets, and by section four of the said Act it is enacted as follows :—

• The expression ' the general limits of this Act ' shall mean such parts of the metropolis as are enclosed in a circle of which the centre is Charing Cross, and the radii are four miles in length as measured in a straight line from Charing Cross " :

• The expression ' the special limits of this Act ' shall mean such streets and portions of streets as may be declared to be special limits in manner herein-after prescribed " :

And whereas it is expedient to extend the general limits of the said Act:

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, as follows:

1 Short title and construction.

This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1885, and shall be construed as one with the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, and may be cited together with that Act as the Metropolitan Streets Acts, 1867 and 1885.

2 Extension of limits of 30 & 31 Vict c.134.

In section four of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, " six miles " shall be substituted for " four miles, " and the said Act shall take effect and be construed accordingly.