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Photometer or the Table Photometer. The latter was objected to by this
Council's Gas Examiner.)
(i) Clause 30 (2). The Local Authority as well as the Company to
have the right to apply to the Board of Trade for approval of the use of
any other burner, photometer or standard light.
(j) Clause 30, omit sub-clauses 4 and 5. (As to Company not being
liable to penalty except upon the average of three consecutive tests.)
(k) Part of Clause 5 of the South Suburban Gas Act, 1906, to be
inserted in the Bill (as to testing for the calorific power and illuminating
power with flat flame and incandescent burners, but without liability to
penalties).
(l) Clause 34 of the Wandsworth and Putney Gas Act, 1900, to be
inserted in the Bill in regard to the laying of mains in private streets—
mains to be laid not less than two feet nor more than two feet six inches
below the surface as required by local authority.
(m) All future mains laid by the Company in any street to be at a
depth of not less than two feet unless the consent of the local authority is
obtained.
75. The Bill received the Royal Assent on the 4th July, 1907.
76. This Bill provided 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 Burial 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 has or had been so used or appropriated;
and was promoted to meet the case of burial authorities whose
cemeteries would be affected by the decision in "Godden v. Hythe
Burial Board," to the effect that the above-mentioned consents
must be obtained, even if the house is erected after the ground
had been used or appropriated for a cemetery. This decision
would have seriously affected the use of cemeteries, and a Conference
of Burial Authorities was held at Lambeth, at which this
Council was represented, and a resolution was passed calling
attention to the unsatisfactory state of the law in the matter and
to the necessity of the immediate amendment of Section 9 of the
Burial Act, 1855. A deputation was appointed to wait upon the
Government, and the President of the Local Government Board
introduced the above Bill, which received the Royal Assent on the
21 st December, 1906.
Burial Act,
1906.