A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. 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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    Proceedings lu Ireland as to complaints, &c., to be suljject to provisions of 14 and 15 Vict., c. 93, and 21 and 22 Vict., c. 100. Appeal to Quarter Sessions, As to expenses of executing Act. Indictment or otlier remedy affected. Interpretation of terms. 10. All proceedings under this act in rreland as to compelling the appearance of any such person or of any witness, and as to the hear- ing and determination of such complaints, and as to the making and executing of such orders, and as to the applications of fines, amercia- ments, and forfeited recognizances imposed or levied under this act at Petty Sessions, shall be subject in all respects to the provisions of The Petty Sessions {Ireland) Act, 1851, as the same is amended by The Petty Sessions Clerk {Ireland) Act, 1858 (when the case shall be heard in any Petty Sessions district), and to the provisions of the acts relating to the Divisional Police Offices (when the case shall be heard in the Police District of Dublin Metropolis), so far as the said provisions shall be consislent with any special provisions of this act ; and when any fine or penalty is imposed at any of the Divisional Police Offices of Dublin metropolis, or by the justices in any corporate town, under the provisions of this act, such fines and penalties shall be paid over to the same purposes and appropriated and applied in the same manner as is now by law authorized in respect of fines and penalties imposed at such Divisional Police Offices, or by the justices in any such corporate town respectively. 11. In l9-eland any person who has been convicted of any offence punishable by this act may appeal to the next Court of Quarter Sessions to be held in the same division of the county where the order shall be made by any justice or justices in any Petty Sessions district, or to the recorder at his next Sessions where the order shall be made by the divisional justices in the Police District of Dublin metropolis, or to the recorder of any corporate or borough town when the older shall be made by any justice or justices in such corporate or borough town (unless when any such Sessions shall commence within seven days from the date of any such order, in which case, if the appellant sees fit, the appeal may be made lo the next succeeding Sessions to be held for such division or toWn); and it shall be lawful for such Court of Quarter Sessions or recorder, as the case may be, to decide such appeal, if made in such form and manner, and with such notices, as are required by the Petty Sessions Acts respectively hereinbefore mentioned as to appeals against orders made by justices at Petty Sessions ; and all the provisions of the said Petty Sessions Acts respectively as to making appeals and as to executing the orders made on appeal, or the original orders where the appeals shall not be duly prosecuted, shall also apply to any appeal or like order to be made under the provisions of this act. 12. The expense of executing this act shall be borne, in the city of London and the liberties thereof, out of the consolidated rates raised by the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of Londoji and the liberties thereof, and in the rest of the metropolis out of any rates or funds applicable to the purposes of the act for the better local management of the metropolis, and in counties out of the county rate, and in boroughs out of the borough fund, or out of the rogue money in counties in Scotland. 13. Nothing in this act contained shall be held to aiifect the power of proceeding by indictment, or to take away any other remedy against any offender under this act. 14. In the construction of this act the words articles of food or drink shall (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) in- clude not only all alimentary substances, whether solids or liquids, but also all eatables or drinkables whatsoever, not being medical drugs or articles usually taken or sold as medicines; but this act shall not be con- strued so as to affect the ordinary reduction of the strength of foreign, British, or colonial spirits by persons licensed and paying duties under the excise. [See amendment to the above act, page 457, et seq. Both acts are to be construed as one.]