Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![32 & 33 Viet, c. 70. Power for local autho- rity to acquire land. 38 & 39 Viet, c. 55. Proceedings in case of default of local authorities. [Ch. 57.] Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. [57 & 58 Vict.] approval, a new schedule of tolls, and on failure of the local authority to do so to the satisfaction of the Board, may, by order, prescribe such tolls as the Board think fit, in lieu of those before approved]by the Board. (8.) The provisions of this section shall apply to a wharf or other place provided by a local authority under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, or under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts,|1878 to 1893. 33. —(1.) A local authority may purchase, or may by agreement take on lease or at a rent, land for wharves or other places, or for use for burial of carcases, in cases where there is not any ground suitable in that behalf in the possession or occupation of the owner of the animal, or any common or uninclosed land suitable and approved by the Board of Agriculture in that behalf, or for any other purpose of this Act. (2.) The local authority may (subject to any agreement) dispose of lands so acquired but not required for the purposes of this Act, carrying the money produced thereby to the credit of the local rate. (3.) The regulations contained in section one hundred and seventy-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, shall be observed with respect to the purchase of land by a local authority for purposes of this Act, as if the local authority were a local board, and purposes of this Act were purposes of that Act; provided that the requisite advertisements and notices may be published and served in any two consecutive months, and that the local rate shall be substituted for the rates therein mentioned. (4.) The powers conferred by this section may be exercised by a local authority with respect to land within or without their district. 34. —(1.) Where a local authority fail to execute or enforce any of the provisions of this Act, or of an order of the Board of Agriculture, the Board may by order empower a person therein named to execute and enforce those provisions, or to procure the execution and enforcement thereof. (2.) The expenses incurred under any such order or in respect of any such default by or on behalf of the Board, includ- ing compensation for animals slaughtered, shall be expenses of the local authority, and the treasurer or other proper officer of the local authority shall pay the amount of such expenses to the Board on demand, and in default of payment a person appointed by the Board to sue in that behalf, may recover the amount of such expenses, with costs, from the local authority.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241695x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
