.....eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, Cap.110, has since been registered in England under "The Joint Stock Companies' Act 1856" with limited liabilities and has duly obtained a certificate of incorporation under the name of the Oriental Gas Company Limited and whereas the said Company has erected Gas-works on land granted for that purpose by Government in the vicinity of the Town of Calcutta and is engaged in the preparation of apparatus and materials for the manufacture and supply of Gas fir lighting the said Town and where as it is expedient that powers and facilities should be given to the said company to enable then to carry out their undertaking of lighting with Gas the said Town of Calcutta which powers and facilities may hereafter be extended to the operations of the said Company in other towns and places it is enacted as follows:---
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIn the Town of Calcutta and its environs and in any other town or place to which the provisions of this Act may hereafter be extended, by a law to be passed for that purpose the Oriental Gas Company Limited under such superintendence as is hereinafter specified may open and break up the soil and pavement of the several streets and bridges and may open and break up any sewers drains or tunnels within or under such streets and bridges and lay down and place within the same limits pipes conduits service pipes and other works and from time repair alter or remove the same and also make any sewers that may be necessary for carrying off the washings and waste liquids which may arise in the making of the Gas and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all earth and materials inland under such streets and bridges and they may in such streets erect any pillars lamps and other works and do all other acts which the said Company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying Gas to the inhabitants of the said Town of Calcutta and its environs or other town or place as aforesaid doing as title damage as may be in the execution of the powers hereby granted and making compensation.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionProvided always that nothing herein shall authorize or empower the said company to lay down or place any pipe or other works into through or against any building or in any land not dedicated to public use without the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof except that the said company may at any time enter upon and lay or place any new pipe in the place of an existing pipe in any land wherein any pipe has been already lawfully laid down or placed in pursuance of this Act and may repair or later any pipe so laid down.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBefore the said Company proceed to open or break up any street, bridges, sewer, drain.or tunnel shall given to the municipal Commissioners for the Town of Calcutta, or Other persons under whose control or management the same may be or to other persons under whose control to management the same may be or to their Clerk, Surveyor, or other officer notice in writing of their intention or open or break up the clear days before beginning such work ; except in cases of emergency arising from defects in any of the pipes or other works, and then so soon as is possible after the beginning of the work or the necessity for the same shall have arisen.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNo such street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel shall except in the cases of emergency aforesaid, be opened or broken up, except under the superintendence of the persons having the control or management thereof, or of their officer or in case of any difference respecting such persons or their officers or in case of any difference respecting such plan then according to such plan as shall be determined by a Magistrate ; and such Magistrate may, or the application of the person having the control or management of any such sewer or drain or their officer require the said Company to make such temporary or other works as they think necessary execution of any interruption of the drainage during the execution of any works which interfere with any such sewer or drain: Provided always that, if the persons having such control or management as aforesaid, and their officer fail to attend at the time fixed for the opening of any such street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, after having had such notice of the said Company's intention as aforesaid or shall not propose any plan for breaking up or opening the same or shall refuse or neglect to superintend the operation the said Company may perfor
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWhen the said Company open of break up the road or pavement of any street or bridges, or any sewer, drain , or bridges or any sewer drain or tunnel they shall with all convenient speed complete the work for the which the same shall be broken up, and fill in the ground has reinstate and make good the road or pavement, or the sewer drain or tunnel so opened or broken up and carry away the rubbish occasioned thereby ; and shall at all times, whilst any such road or pavement shall be so opened or broken up, cause the same to be fenced and guarded and shall cause the same to be fenced and guarded, and shall cause a light, sufficient for the warning of passengers, to be set up and maintained against or near such road or pavement where the same shall be open or broken up, every night during which the same shall be open or broken up ; and shall keep the road or pavement which has been so broken up in good repair for three months after replacing and making good the same, and for such further time, if any, not being more than twelve months in the whole, as the soil so broken up shall continue to subside.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIf the said Company open or break up any street or bridge, or any sewer, drain, or tunnel, without giving such notice as aforesaid, or in a manner different from that which shall have been approved of or determined as aforesaid, or without making such temporary or other works as aforesaid, when so required, except in the cases in which the said Company are hereby authorized to perform such works without any superintendence or notice; or if the said Company make any delay in completing any such work, or in filling in or the sewer, drain, or tunnel so opened or broken up, or in carrying away the rubbish occasioned thereby; or if they neglect to cause the place where such road or pavement has been broken up to be fenced, guarded, and lighted, or neglect to keep the road or pavement in repair for the space of three months next after the same shall have been made good, or such further time as aforesaid, they shall forfeit to the persons having the control or management of the street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, in respect of which such offence, and they shall forfeit an additional sum not exceeding fifty rupees for each day during which any such delay as aforesaid shall continue
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIf any such delay or omission as aforesaid take place, the persons having the control or management of the street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, in respect of which such delay or omission shall take place, may cause the work so delayed or omitted to be executed ; and the expense of executing the same shall be repaid to such persons by the said Company ; and the amount of such expense shall, in case of any dispute about the same, be ascertained and recovered in Calcutta and in any other town or place subject to the jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts of Judicature, in the manner in which expenses are ascertained and recovered under Act XIV of 1856 { Rep.by Act 16 of 1874.}, and in town or place not within the Jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts, in the same manner as damages are recoverable under this Act.(Expense how to be ascertained and recovered.)
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe Clerk, Engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the said Company, may, at all reasonable times, enter any buildings or place lighted with Gas supplied by the said Company, in order to inspect the meters, fittings, and works for regulating the supply of Gas consumed or supplied ; and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit to the said Company a sum not exceeding fifty rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIf any person supplied with Gas, or any person to whom any meter of fitting shall have been let for hire by the said Company, the said Company may stop the Gas from entering the premises of such person, by cutting off the service-pipes, or by such means as the said Company shall think fit, and recover the rent due from such person, together with the expenses if cutting off the Gas, by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
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