Municipal Corporations Act 1882

SavingsE+W

250 Saving for existing corporations.E+W

(1)Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affect any charter granted before the commencement of this Act, or take away, abridge, or prejudicially affect any of the rights, powers, privileges, estates, property, duties, liabilities, or obligations vested in or imposed on any municipal corporation existing at the commencement of this Act, or in or on the mayor, or the council of a borough then existing, or any members or committee of the council, by the incorporation of the inhabitants of the borough, or by transfer from any other authority, or otherwise; but every such charter shall continue to operate, and every such corporation shall continue to have perpetual succession and a common seal, and to be capable in law by the council to do and suffer all acts which at the commencement of this Act they and their successors respectively may lawfully do or suffer, and the corporation and all members and officers thereof and their sureties, and every such mayor, and every such council and committee, and every such officer, shall continue to have, enjoy, and be subject to the like rights, powers, offices, privileges, estates, property, duties, liabilities, and obligations, as if this Act had not been passed, without prejudice, nevertheless, to the operation of the repeal of enactments by this Act, and to the other express provisions of this Act.

(2)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(4)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

251 Saving for local Acts.E+W

Nothing in this Act shall alter the effect of any local Act of Parliament.

252. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3E+W

253. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4E+W

254 Saving for dockyards, barracks, &c. E+W

Nothing in this Act shall affect the watching, paving, or lighting, or the internal regulations for the government, of any of Her Majesty’s dockyards, victualling establishments, arsenals, barracks, or other naval or military establishments, or make the tenements therein or the inhabitants thereof liable to any rate for watching, paving, or lighting.

255. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5E+W

256 Saving for Lord Warden.E+W

Nothing in this Act shall affect the jurisdiction and office of the Lord Warden in his office of Admiral of the Cinque Ports.

257 Saving for universities.E+W

Nothing in this Act shall—

(1)Affect the rights, privileges, duties, or liabilities of the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, as by law possessed under the respective charters of those universities or otherwise; or

(2)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

(5)Authorize the levy of any rate within the precincts of those universities, or of any of the colleges or halls thereof, which now by law cannot be levied therein, or make either of those universities, or the members thereof, liable to any rate to which they are not liable to contribute at the commencement of this Act; or

(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6

(7)Affect the rights or privileges granted by charter or Act of Parliament to the University of Durham.

258. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8E+W

259 Saving for royal prerogative.E+W

Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affect Her Majesty’s royal prerogative; and the enabling provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the powers exerciseable by Her Majesty by virtue of her royal prerogative.

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(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9