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3. Any order under this section may provide for its operation extending either to
the whole or to specified parts of the area of the borough or urban district, and may
make such provisions as seem necessary for carrying the order into effect.
6. The provisions of this section respecting councils of urban districts shall apply
to the administrative county of London in like manner as if the district of each sanitary
authority in that county were an urban district, and the sanitary authority were the
council of that district.
And whereas it is provided by sub-section (5) of Section 7 of the said Act that where the
area under any existing Authority acting within a Rural Parish in the execution of any of
the adoptive Acts as defined by sub-section (1) of the said Section is co-extensive with the
Parish, all powers, duties, and liabilities of that Authority shall, on the Parish Council
coming into office, be transferred to that Council;
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And whereas it is provided by sub-section (6) of the said Section 7 that the said Act
shall not alter the incidence of charge of any rate levied to defray expenses incurred under
any of the adoptive Acts, and any such rate shall be made and charged as heretofore, and
any property applicable to the payment of such expenses shall continue to be so applicable;
And whereas the Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 1846 to 1882, and the Public Libraries Act,
1892, are defined as adoptive Acts by sub-section (1) of the said Section 7, and have been
duly adopted within the said Parish of Rotherhithe for the whole of the area of the Parish;
And whereas we, the Local Government Board, have received an application from the
Vestry of the said Parish for the issue of an Order conferring on the Vestry the authority
for the execution of the adoptive Acts which have been adopted as aforesaid within the
said Parish:
NOW THEREFORE, in pursuance of the powers given to us by the Statutes in that
behalf, we Order as follows:—
Article I.—We hereby Order and Direct that, from and after the Twenty-fifth day of
March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the above-cited sub-sections (5) and
(6) of Section 7 of the Local Government Act, 1894, shall be in force within the said Parish
of Rotherhithe as if the said Parish were a Rural Parish and the Yestry of the said Parish
were a Parish Council within the meaning nf the first-mentioned sub-section ; but so far only
as may be necessary in order that the powers, duties, and liabilities of the several authorities
for the execution within the said Parish of the Baths and W ash-houses Acts and the