WHEREAS by the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Acts and Orders 1888 to 1987 the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Company (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) are incorporated and authorised to maintain a promenade and amusement pier at Brighton with a pier-head or promenade at the seaward end of the pier:

And whereas by the [1987 c. vi.] Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Act 1987 the Company were authorised to carry out certain works to extend, renew, strengthen and refurbish the pier including the structure of its head:

And whereas for and in connection with the continued improvement and refurbishment of the pier and its amenities it is expedient that the Company should be further empowered to widen and to extend seaward the pier and to construct the other works authorised by this Act:

And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

And whereas a plan and sections showing the lines or situations and levels of the work by this Act authorised, and the lands which may be used for the purposes thereof, and a book of reference to such plan containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers of those lands and describing the same, have been deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords, and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officer of the East Sussex County Council, which plan, sections and book of reference are in this Act referred to respectively as the deposited plan, the deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—