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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    4^^5 Small Penalties—Steam Whistles, Acts. ■ AN ACT TO REGULATE. THE USE OF STEAM WHISTLES IN CERTAIN MANUFACTORIES. 35 & 36 Vict., Cap.- 61. • [btk August, 1872.] 1. This act shall not apply fo Scotland.- ' ■•' 2. No person shall -use .oj employ in any manufactory, or any other place, any steam whisflertor steam trumpet for the purpose of summoning or dismissing workmen'or persons employed, without the sanction of the Sanitary .fiuiliority, and,*eveiy person offending against this section shall be liable to' a'-perialty not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not ejiceediilg forty shillings for every day during which such offence continues : provided always, that the Sanitary Authority, in case they have sanctioned tlie use of any such instnjment as aforesaid, may at any time revoke such sanction on giving one month's notice to the person using the same : provided also, that it shall be lawful for the Local Government Board, on representation made to them by any person that he is prejudicially affected by such sanction, to revoke the same, and such revocation shall have the same force and effect as if it had been made by the Sanitary Authority. 3. Sanitaiy Authority means the authority at the time being empowered to execute the Nuisance Removal Acts, as defined and extended by The Sanitary Act, 1866. 4. All offences and penalties under this act may be prosecuted and recovered in England in manner directed by the act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, and any acts amending the same; and in Ireland, in the police district of Dublin metropolis, in manner directed by the acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of that district; and elsewhere in manner directed by the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any act amending the same. SMALL PENALTIES ACT. 36 & 37 Vic, Cap. 82. In summary convictions (for selling adulterated food or other offences), where the penalty does not exceed £5, the offender on non- payment, may be sent to prison for seven days if fine does not exceed 10s. ; for fourteen days if above 10s., and not more than 20s.; one month if above £1, and not more than £2 ; and two months if the fine exceed £2, but is not more than £5. CLOSING OF BURIAL GROUNDS. Owing to a defect just discovered in the wording of Section 18 of the Public Health Act, 1874, the Local Government Board have in cases of application for closure of burial grounds to personally hear the arguments of counsel; they, however, have decided to take the evidence given before their inspector, and not to listen to it themselves. a In prosecutions under this act evidence must be given as to the actual whistle or trumpet emitting the noise.