South Shields Corporation Act 1921
WHEREAS the borough of South Shields (in this Act called "the borough") is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating to municipal corporations and is a county borough within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1888 and the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the Corporation") acting by the council are the urban sanitary authority for the borough and have within the borough all the powers of a burial board: And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the se...