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11.—All wires laid or suspended before the passing of the Act shall be
registered, in a prescribed form, by the owners thereof with the Street
Authority, within six months from the date of the passing of the Act; all
wires not so registered to be deemed abandoned wires.
12.—All wires laid or suspended after the passing of the Act, in accordance
with the consent of the Street Authority, or of the Board of Appeal, to
be registered in a prescribed form by the owners thereof for the time being
with the Street Authority; all wires not so registered to be deemed abandoned
wires.
13.—A reasonable fee shall be paid to the Street Authority for every
registration or re-registration.
14.—Owners of unauthorised, dangerous, or disused wires, or apparatus in
connection therewith, whether laid, suspended, or fixed before or after the
passing of the Act, to remove the same on notice from the Street Authority,.
under penalty, subject to appeal against any such notice to the Board of
Appeal constituted by the Act.
15.—Street Authority to have power to remove abandoned, unauthorised,
dangerous, or disused wires and supports, or wires not removed by owners on
notice from the Street Authority. Expenses incurred by the Street
Authority in removing any such wire to be recoverable in a Court of
Summary Jurisdiction, and to be a preferential charge upon the assets of
any person, or of any company insolvent, compounding with creditors, or in
liquidation.
16.—Wires not to be altered without consent.
17.—Street Authorities to be at liberty to repair streets for, and at expense
of, undertakers (see 18 and 19 Vie., c. 120, s. 114).
The Vestry invited the co-operation of other Street
Authorities in pressing the matter upon the attention of the
Government, and, at the same time, determined themselves
to oppose the Bill of the Company.
At the request of the Vestry of Lambeth, the Vestry
appointed Delegates to attend a Conference of representatives
of various Metropolitan Vestries to consider the
course to be adopted with regard to the said Bill.