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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
70. The Corporation may from time to time appoint officers for securing the observance of this part of this Act and of the byelaws made thereunder and may procure such officers to be sworn in as constables for that purpose.
PART IX.-STREETS AND BUILDINGS.
71. The deposit with the Corporation of any plan of any street or building may be declared by the Corporation null and void if the execution of the work specified in such plan be not commenced within the following periods (that is to say) :
As to plans deposited after the passing of this Act within three years from the date of such deposit;
As to plans deposited before the passing of this Act within three years from the passing of this Act :
And when any such deposit shall have been declared null and void a fresh notice and deposit shall unless the Corporation otherwise determine be requisite.
72. The Corporation may make byelaws with reference to the retention by them of. drawings plans elevations sections specifications and written particulars descriptions or details deposited with the Corporation in pursuance of any enactment for the time being in force in the borough or any byelaw thereunder respectively.
73. The Corporation may by order vary or alter the position direction or level of any intended new street for the purpose of causing it to communicate in a direct or more direct
line with any other street adjoining or leading thereto The Corporation shall make compensation to any person who may be injuriously affected by the exercise of the powers conferred by this section.
74. Where any street is in the opinion of the Corporation narrow or inconvenient or without any sufficiently regular line of frontage the Corporation may from time to time prescribe and define what shall thereafter be the line of frontage to be observed on either side of any such street The line which in any case the Corporation propose so to prescribe and define shall be distinctly marked and shown on a plan to be signed by the town clerk and deposited with the surveyor and such plan shall be at all reasonable times thereafter open for the inspection of the public without charge and one month at least before the Corporation formally prescribe and define the said line they shall give notice in writing of the deposit of the said plan to every owner interested whose name and address they can ascertain No new building erection excavation or obstruction (being of a permanent character) shall be made nearer to the centre of the street than such line.
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