Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock.

Date:: 1905

Credit: Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock. 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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$this proviso shall not be construed to extend or diminish the exemption from stamp duties contained in section one hundred and sixty-eight of this Act [1] Where District in more tlian one County 13. Where any parish or burgh shaU be situated in more than one county,' the Board shall, on application being made to them br any person having interest, determine in which one of such counties such parish or burgh shall be held to be situated for the purposes of this Act, whose decision shall be final; and the jurisdiction and powers of magistrates, justices, and sheriffs, and the powers of their officers under this Act, shall be regulated accordingly, and the Board may from time to time recall or vary such determination. Local Authorities to be Bodies Corporate ; Committees may toe Appointed 14. The local authorities shall respectively be bodies corporate designated by such names as they may usually bear or adopt, with power to sue and be sued in such names, and to hold lands for the purposes of this Act; and the local authority, subject, in the case where the local authority is a district committee, to the provisions of sub-section two of section seventeen of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1S89,' may appoint any committee or committees- of their owTi body to receive and issue notices, to take proceedings,^ and in all or certain specified respects to execute this Act, whereof two shall be a quorum, unless a larger quorum be specified in their appointment; and such local authority or their committee, thereto duly authorised, may by a wriling under the hand of the clerk empower any officer or person to serve notices, make complaints, and take proceedings on their behalf; and all acts done or proceedings taken by or against such committee or officer or person shaU be as valid as if they were done by or taken in the name of all the members of the local authority; and the local authority shaU have power to commence or carry on all proceedings commenced, or which might have been commenced, before the commencement of this Act, by the local authority under any of the Acts hereby repealed, and shall be vested with with the elected coancillora as the L.A. in administering the other pro- visions of the Public Health Acts. The burgh representatives will not act (r. \ 138, in/ra, and Handbook, P.H., note, p. 15). ' p. L.G.A., 1889, J). 158. 2 ';. ; 54, B.P.A., 1892, p. 121, and | 44 (9), L.G.A., 1894, p. 105. . •■^ The L.A. may appoint any one to take proceedings. In cases of retail bakehouses, it is the M.O.H. \v. S 102, F. & W. Act, 1901, p. 175).$