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And whereas the demand for electricity within the said Districts and Parishes has
largely increased and is increasing, and it is expedient that the Company be authorised
to erect and work Stations for generating electricity upon the lands described in the
First Schedule to the Bill, and to acquire such lands or rights and interests therein.
And whereas districts, or property over which the Company have no powers, in some
cases intervene between different portions of the areas supplied and proposed to be supplied
by the Company, and that it is expedient that the Company be empowered to lay
down and maintain electric lines for the purpose of transmitting energy from any such
generating Station as aforesaid, to any portion of their area of supply as for the time
being existing.
3. The Second Schedule referred to in the Preamble is as follows:—
The Southwark Electric Lighting Order, 1892, the County of London (North Electric
Lighting Order, 1892, the Wandsworth Electric Lighting Order, 1892, the St. Olave Electric
Lighting Order, 1895, scheduled to and confirmed by the Electric Lighting Orders
Confirmation (Notting Hill, etc.), Act, 1896, the Camberwell Electric Lighting Order, 1896,
the St. Saviour's District Electric Lighting Order, 1896, the County of London (East)
Electric Lighting Order, 1897, the County of London (Northern Extensions) Electric
Lighting Order, 1897, and the Holborn and St. Giles Electric Lighting Order, 1898 (No. 1).
4. By Clause 11 of the Bill the Company is empowered, for the purpose of connecting
portions of the districts within their area of supply with the generating stations which the
Company are by the Bill authorised to erect or one of them lay down, maintain, use, repair,
remove, renew, and alter electric lines within their area of supply and within the Parish of
Rotherhitne and other parishes, and may utilise such electric lines for the transmission of
electric current or energy accordingly, and may, for the purpose of laying down, maintaining,
using, repairing, renewing, and altering such electric lines, and of examining, testing,
regulating, measuring, and controlling the supply or transmission of electricity through
the same, and examining or testing the state thereof, open and break up the soil and pavement
in the several streets within such parish, and any mains, pipes, sewers, drains, etc.,
therein or thereunder, and may remove and use the earth and materials in and under any
streets so broken up, and do all such other acts as they shall from time to time deem necessary
for such purposes.