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(c) London and District Electric Power Bill.—
Proposal to enable the undertakers to supply energy
to authorised undertakers and for providing power to any
person within the limits of supply, including the County
of London and certain boroughs and districts in Middlesex,
Surrey, Essex and Kent.
(d) London Electric Supply Bill.— Promoted
by the fourteen Electric Light Companies having
power for the supply of electrical energy in the
County of London and adjoining districts, for the purpose
of enabling them to establish a joint Committee to take
over and arrange any generating stations of the London
Companies, and to supply energy to all or any of the
Companies or to any authorised distributor, including any
local authority.
The London and District Electric Power Bill was
withdrawn by the promoters, and the Borough Council
presented petitions to the House of Commons in opposition to
the London County Council (Electric Supply) Bill, and the
London Electric Supply Bill. The Bills were under consideration
at the close of the year.
3. Burials Act, 1906.
Arising out of an important decision affecting burial grounds
(Godden v. Hythe Burial Board) in which the Burial
Authority was restrained from using for any burial or
burials, any part of its new burial ground, within the
distance of 100 yards from any of the plaintiffs dwellinghouses
at Hythe, a conference of Burial Authorities was
held, at which the Council was represented, when a resolution
was passed, expressing the opinion that the state of the
law, as decided in the above case, was most unsatisfactory, and
against the public interest, and that it was expedient to
immediately amend Section 9 of the Burials Act, 1855.
This resolution was conveyed by deputation to the Home
Secretary and the President of the Local Government Board,
and as the result of the representations made, the latter introduced
a Bill to give effect to the desired amendment, which
duly passed and received the Royal Assent on 21st December,
1906. The amending provisions of the new Act are to the effect
that the consent of the owner, lessee and occupier of a dwelling
house to the use for burials of any ground used or appropriated
for a Cemetery, mentioned in Section 9 of the Burials Act, 1855,
shall not be and shall be deemed never to have been required in
any case where the dwelling house is or was begun to be
erected after any part of that ground was or had been so used
or appropriated.