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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
The expression " statutory security " means any security in which trustees are for the time being by or under any Act of Parliament passed or to be passed authorised to invest trust money and any mortgage bond debenture debenture stock corporation stock annuity rentcharge rent or other security (not being in any case a security transferable by delivery) authorised by or under any Act of Parliament passed or to be passed of any municipal corporation in Great Britain except the Corporation or of any other local authority within section 34 of the Local Loans Act 1875;
The expression " Corporation Stock " means stock created and issued by the Corporation under and in accordance with the provisions of Part V. of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 ;
"Daily penalty" means a penalty for each day on which any offence is continued after conviction therefor:
Words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Public Health Act 1875 or the Electric Lighting Act
1882 have in this Act the same respective meanings unless the subject or context otherwise requires:
Words to which meanings are assigned in enactments incorporated with this Act or which have therein special meanings have in this Act the same respective meanings unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction :
Provided that for the purposes of this Act in the enactments incorporated. with this Act the expression " superior courts " or " court of competent jurisdiction " shall have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to which it is used were a simple contract debt and not ; debt or demand created by statute.
5. This Act except where otherwise expressed or implied shall apply exclusively to the borough.
6. This Act shall be carried into execution by the Corporation acting by the council.
PART II.-ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS.
7.-(l.) If a majority of the whole of the council of the borough agree to petition and that council thereupon petition the Queen for an increase of the number of the aldermen and councillors of the borough it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to increase the number of such aldermen and councillors and to apportion such councillors among the wards of the borough and to make such other provisions as appear to Her said Council to be necessary or proper for carrying such purposes into effect.
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