Padiham Urban District Council (Water) Act 1896
WHEREAS by the Padiham Local Board Act 1889 (herein-after called "the Act of 1889") the Local Board for the district of Padiham and Hapton in the county of Lancaster therein and herein-after called "the Local Board" were authorised to make and maintain the reservoir and works in that Act mentioned:

And whereas the district of Padiham and Hapton is an urban sanitary district within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1875 and an urban district within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1...