An Act to extend the time for the construction of certain waterworks authorised by the Burnley Corporation Act 1908 to confer further powers upon the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Burnley in regard to their water undertaking and for other purposes.
WHEREAS the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the county borough of Burnley (in this Act called "the Corporation"), are supplying water within the said borough and areas adjacent thereto:

And whereas by the Burnley Corporation Act 1908 the Corporation were empowered to construct additional waterworks including a reservoir to be called the Hurstwood Reservoir and although considerable progress has been made with the construction of the said reservoir it may not be possible to complete the same ...