Torquay Corporation Water Act 1897
WHEREAS the borough of Torquay in the county of Devon is a municipal borough under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the Corporation") and the Corporation acting by the Council are the urban sanitary authority: And whereas the Corporation in their then capacity of a local board were by the Torquay Waterworks Act 1856 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1856") empowered to acquire and improve certain waterworks and to supply the borough ...