Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

6.90 The 1882 Act incorporated a body to be known as “the South London Fish Market
Company” with powers comparable with the companies incorporated by the 1834
and 1864 Acts. However, although the general market authorised by the 1882 Act
actually opened during the summer of 1883, its success was short lived because
it lasted for only three years, closing during 1886. The 1882 Act thereupon
became obsolete. 156
Islington Market Repeal Act 1854
6.91 The purpose of the Islington Market Repeal Act 1854 157 was to repeal an Act of
1835 158 which had authorised the opening of a cattle market in competition with
Smithfield Market. This cattle market, which opened in April 1836, was situated in
the parish of St Mary in Islington. The market proved unsuccessful and soon
closed. Accordingly the 1854 Act repealed the 1835 Act and ended all rights
under that Act. The repeal took effect in June 1854 when the 1854 Act came into
force. The 1854 Act thereupon became unnecessary.
Lambeth Market Act 1868
6.92 The Lambeth Market Act 1868 159 was passed to establish a general market in
Lambeth, south London. The preamble to the 1868 Act recorded that “the
Establishment of a Market for the Sale of Butchers Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish,
Butter, Cheese, Milk, Vegetables, and other Animal and Vegetable Products, and
other marketable Commodities … in the Borough of Lambeth and County of
Surrey, would be highly advantageous to the Inhabitants of the said Borough and
the adjoining Parishes and Places”. The preamble also recorded that a number of
persons were willing, at their own expense, to be incorporated into a Company to
establish such a market. The Act duly established the Lambeth Market Company
with power to acquire land and build and operate the new market. The
Company’s powers to create the market would cease to be exercisable after July
1873.
6.93 In the event no market was ever established pursuant to the 1868 Act. Indeed
within months of the Act coming into force in July 1868, notice was published in
the London Gazette 160 of proposed further legislation authorising amendment or
repeal of the Act and permitting the Company to sell or lease the market. No such
legislation was ever brought forward. The fact that no market was established
pursuant to the 1868 Act means that the Act became spent once the time limit for
completing the market expired at the end of July 1873.
156 The present day Elephant and Castle Market, situated outside the Elephant and Castle
Shopping Centre, does not rely in any way on the powers contained in the 1882 Act.
157 17 & 18 Vict. c.lxiii.
158 5 & 6 Will.4 c.cxi.
159 31 & 32 Vict. c.clxviii.
160 London Gazette, 27 November 1868, p 6293.
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