Guide to local government in counties, parishes, and burghs.

Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Guide to local government in counties, parishes, and burghs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ACT OF PARLIAMENT FOR ipgulating the Polire and Sanitary Administration of totvns and populous placvs, and for faciliMting the union of Police and Municipal Administration in bv/rghs in Scotland.—[55 and 56 Vict, cap. 55.—28th June 1892.] ' Whereas it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the police and sanitary iiministration of towns and populous places, and to facilitate the union of police •.id municipal administration in burghs in Scotland : I Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with xe advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in lis present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : ■ ] 1. Short title and extent.—This Act may be cited as the Burgh Police (Scotland) c.ct, 1892, and shall apply to Scotland only. • 2. Commencement of Act.—This Act shaU come into operation, except so far as ■•,herwise herein-after provided, on the fifteenth day of May one thousand eio-ht iondred and ninety-three, which date is herein-after called the commencement of riia Act. ; 3. Division into parts.—This Act is divided into parts as follows: Part I.—General. Part II.—Constitution of Police Burghs Part III.—Police Force. Part IV.—Police Administration. Part V.—Rating and Borrovmig Powers. Part VI.—Offences and Penalties. PART L—GENERAL. Definitions. 4. The following words and expressions in this Act shall have the meanings ereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context jpugnant to such construction ; that is to say, (1.) Board of Supervision shall mean the Board of Supervision for the relief of the poor and of public health : I (2.) Broker shall include any person dealing in second-hand goods or articles or m yarn or waste, or in other unwrought material, or in old metals bones' or rags: Provided always, that wholesale dealers in rags, ropes, and waste' purchasing only from licensed brokers or licensed marine store dealers or m quantities of not less than half a ton, shall not be included in this definition: I (3.) Building shaU include any structure or erection of what Icind and nature soever, and every part thereof ; A