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lication of this Act to Scotland the following modifications shall be made:

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6. Marking of cases.] Every person dealing in margarine in the manner described in the preceding section shall conform to the following ap-regulations:

The expression "Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and any Acts amending the same. The expression "justice" means sheriff. The expression "court of summary jurisdiction" means the Sheriff Court, and all jurisdiction necessary for the purpose of this Act is hereby conferred on sheriffs. 22. Application of Act to Ireland.] In the plication of this Act to Ireland, the following modifications shall be made: The expression "Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means, so far as respects the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace of such district, and as regards the rest of Ireland means the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 [14 & 15 Vict. c. 93], and any Act amending the same. The expression "court of summary jurisdiction" means justices acting under those

Acts.

23. Repeal of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 88.] The Mer chandise Marks Act, 1862, is hereby repealed, and any unrepealed enactment referring to any enactment so repealed shall be construed to apply to the corresponding provision of this Act; provided that this repeal shall not affect-(a.) any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed;

nor

(b.) the institution or continuance of any pro-
ceeding or other remedy under any enact-
ment so repealed for the recovery of any
penalty incurred, or for the punishment of
any offence committed, before the com-
mencement of this Act; nor
(c.) any right, privilege, liability, or obligation
acquired, accrued, or incurred under any
enactment hereby repealed.

CAP. XXIX.
An Act for the better Prevention of the
Fraudulent Sale of Margarine.

[23rd August 1887. Whereas it is expedient that further provision should be made for protecting the public against the sale as butter of substances made in imitation of butter, as well as of butter mixed with any such substances:

for the same, to reimburse him for the legal costs of obtaining the analysis, and any other reasonable expenses to which the Court shall consider him entitled.

12. Proceedings] All proceedings under this Act shall, save as expressly varied by this Act, be the same as prescribed by sections twelve to twenty-eight inclusive of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and all officers employed under that Act are hereby empowered and required to carry out the provisions of this Act.

13. Definition of local authority.] The expression "local authority" shall mean any local authority authorised to appoint a public analyst under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.

CAP. XXX.

Every package, whether open or closed, and containing margarine, shall be branded or durably marked 66 'Margarine' on the top, bottom, and sides, in printed capital letters, not less than three quarters of an inch square; and if such margarine be exposed for sale, by retail, there shall be attached to each parcel thereof so exposed, and in such manner as to be clearly visible to the An Act to amend the Settled Land Act (1882). purchaser, a label marked in printed capital letters not less than one and a half inches square, Margarine"; and every person selling margarine by retail, save in a package duly branded or durably marked as aforesaid, shall in every case deliver the same to the purchaser in or with a paper wrapper, on which shall be printed in capital letters, not less than a quarter of an inch square, "Margarine."

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7. Presumption against vendor.] Every person dealing with, selling, or exposing, or offering for sale, or having in his possession for the purpose of sale, any quantity of margarine contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to conviction for an offence against this Act, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before whom he is charged that he purchased the article in question as butter, and with a written warranty or invoice to that effect, that he had no reason to believe at the time when he sold it that the article was other than butter, and that he sold it in the same state as when he purchased it, and in such case he shall be discharged from the prosecution, but shall be liable to pay the costs incurred by the prosecutor unless he shall have given due notice to him that he will rely upon the above defence.

8. Margarine imported or manufactured.] All margarine imported into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all margarine whether imported or manufactured within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall, whenever forwarded by any public conveyance, be duly consigned as margarine; and it shall be lawful for any officer of Her Majesty's Customs or Inland Revenue, or any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances, or police constable, authorised under section thirteen of the Sale of 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Food and Drugs Act, 1875 [38 & 39 Vict. c. 63], to Margarine Act, 1887.

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

2. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

3. Definition.] The word "butter" shall mean the substance usually known as butter, made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without salt or other preservative, and with or without the addition of colouring matter.

The word "margarine" shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not, and no such substance shall be lawfully sold, except under the name of margarine, and under the conditions set forth in this Act.

4. Penalty. Every person dealing in margarine, whether wholesale or retail, whether a manufacturer, importer, or as consignor or consignee, or as commission agent or otherwise, who is found guilty of an offence under this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction for the first offence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and for the second offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and for the third or any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

5. Exemption from penalty.] Where an employer is charged with an offence against this Act he shall be entitled, upon information duly laid by him, to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge, and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the employer proves to the satisfaction of

procure samples for analysis if he shall have reason
to believe that the provisions of this Act are
infringed on this behalf, to examine and take
samples from any package, and ascertain, if
necessary by submitting the same to be analysed,
whether an offence against this Act has been
committed.

9. Registration of manufactory.] Every manufac.
tory of margarine within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland shall be registered by
the owner or occupier thereof with the local
authority from time to time in such manner as the
Local Government Boards of England and Ireland
and the Secretary for Scotland respectively may
direct, and every such owner or occupier carrying
on such manufacture in a manufactory not duly
registered shall be guilty of an offence under this

Act.

10. Power to inspectors to take samples without purchase.] Any officer authorised to take samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, may, without going through the form of purchase provided by that Act, but otherwise acting in all respects in accordance with the provisions of the said Act as to dealing with samples, take for the purposes of analysis samples of any butter, or substances purporting to be butter, which are exposed for sale, and are not marked Margarine, as provided marked shall be presumed to be exposed for sale by this Act; and any such substance not being so

as butter.

11. Appropriation of penalties.] Any part of any penalty recovered under this Act may, if the Court shall so direct, be paid to the person who proceeds

[23rd August 1887. Whereas by the twenty-first section of the Settled Land Act, 1882 (in this Act referred to as the Act of 1882), it is provided that capital money arising under that Act may be applied in payment for any improvement by that Act authorised: Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. Amendment of sec. 21 of the Settled Land Act, 1882.] Where any improvement of a kind authorised by the Act of 1882 has been or may be made either before or after the passing of this Act, and a rentcharge, whether temporary or perpetual, has been or may be created in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, with the object of paying off any moneys advanced for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such improvement, any capital money expended in redeeming such rentcharge, or otherwise providing for the payment thereof, shall be deemed to be applied in payment for an improve. ment authorised by the Act of 1882.

2. Section 28 of the Settled Land Act, 1882, to apply to improvements within preceding section.] Any improvement in payment for which capital money is applied or deemed to be applied under the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed to be an improvement within the meaning of section twenty-eight of the Act of 1882, and the provisions of such last-mentioned section shall, so far as applicable, be deemed to apply to such improvement.

3. Short title.] This Act shall be construed as one with the Settled Land Act, 1882, and the Settled Land Act, 1884, and may be cited together with those Acts as the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1887, and separately as the Settled Land Acts (Amendment) Act, 1887.

CAP. XXXI.

An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works; and for other purposes.

Sections.

1. Short title.

2. Construction of Act.
3. Interpretation.

[23rd August 1887.

4. Amendment of 49 & 50 Vict. c. 44. s. 8 and s.
10, sub-sections (e), (ƒ), (g), (i), and (7).
5. Power to expend moneys for the purposes of
the Metropolitan Board of Works (Various
Powers) Act, 1887, the Thames Tunnel
(Blackwall) Act, 1887, the Artizans, &c.
Acts, and the London Parks and Works Act,
1887.

6. Composition for stamp duties.

7. Power to lend to the Vestry of Saint Pancras. 8. Power to lend to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police.

9. Power to expend moneys for sundry purposes during year 1888.

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Extension of amount of loans to the Managers

of Metropolitan Asylum District. Power to lend to School Board for London. 15. Protection of Board in case of certain loans. 16. Power to raise consolidated stock.

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An Act for extending certain Provisions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881, with Amendments, to Sanitary Districts throughout England, Wales, and Ireland; and for other purposes.

23rd August 1887.] Whereas by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 1877 [40 & 41 Vict. c. 35] and 1881 [44 & 45 Vict. c. 34] (herein called the principal Acts), certain facilities were provided for making available the open spaces and burial grounds in the Metropolis for the use of the inhabitants thereof for exercise and recreation, and it is expedient to provide facilities for making available open spaces and burial grounds in all sanitary districts in England, Wales, and Ireland, for the like use of the inhabitants thereof, and to make other provisions for the purpose afcresaid, and also to amend the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, and the Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884 [47 & 48 Vict. c. 72].

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

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1. Interpretation.] In this Act, unless the con"urban text otherwise requires, the expression sanitary district" and the expression "urban authority respectively, and the expressions "rural sanitary district" and "rural authority' respectively shall have the meanings assigned to them respectively by the Public Health Act, 1875 [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55].

2. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 34.] (1.) The Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, is hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, and the second section of the said Act is hereby amended, as follows (that is to say), the purchase money paid for or in respect of the purchase of any open space as therein mentioned shall be held in trust, either as in the said section mentioned, or as the case may be, for the benefit of the objects to which any rates previously imposed in respect of such open space had been applied.

(2.) The playing of any games or sports shall not be allowed in any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground in or over which any estate, interest, or control is acquired under section five of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881.

Provided that

(a.) In the case of consecrated ground, the bishop, by any license or faculty granted under the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act or this Act, and

(b.) In the case of any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground which is not consecrated, the body from which any such estate, interest, or control as aforesaid is acquired may expressly sanction any such use of the ground, and may specify any conditions as to the extent or

manner of such use.

3. Provision as to removal of tombstones and monuments.] In the case of any disused churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, at least three months before any tombstone or monument is moved, the following steps shall be taken :

(a.) A statement shall be prepared sufficiently

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6. Extension of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 35 to vestries and district boards.] All powers and duties conferred upon the Metropolitan Board by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1877, may, after the passing of this Act, be exercised and performed by any vestry or district board of works for the parishes and districts specified in Schedules A. and B. of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended by subsequent Acts.

describing by the name and date appearing thereon the tombstones and monuments standing or being in the ground, and such other particulars as may be necessary; (b.) Such statements shall be deposited with the clerk of the board or vestry, and shall be open to inspection by all persons; (c.) An advertisement of the intention to remove or change the position of such tombstones and monuments shall be inserted three 7. Power of corporation to make free gift of land times at least in some newspaper circulating for open space.] Any corporation other than in the neighbourhood of the burial ground, municipal corporations or body of persons having and such advertisement shall give notice of power, either with or without the consent of any the deposit of such statement as is herein- other corporation or body of persons, to sell land before described, and of the hours within belonging to such corporation or body may, but which the same may be inspected; with the like consent (if any), convey, for valuable (d.) A notice in terms similar to the advertise- or nominal consideration or by way of gift, to any ment shall be placed on the door of the urban or rural authority such land, or any part church (if any) to which such churchyard, thereof, for the purpose of the same being precemetery, or burial ground is attached, and served as an open space for the enjoyment of the shall be delivered or sent by post to any public, and may so convey the same with or withperson known or believed by the board or out conditions, and the urban or rural authority vestry to be a near relative of any person may accept such open space, and, if conditons are whose death is recorded on any such tomb-imposed, subject to such conditions, and such open space shall be deemed to be an open space within the meaning of the principal Acts and this Act.

stone or monument.

In the case of any consecrated ground no appli-
cation for a faculty shall be made until the
expiration of one month at least after the appear-

ance of the last of such advertisements
aforesaid.

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Provided that on any application for a faculty, nothing shall prevent the bishop from directing or sanctioning the removal of any tombstone or monument if he is of opinion that reasonable steps have been taken to bring the intention to effect such removal to the notice of some person having a family interest in such removal.

Where a corporation having power under this section to convey land are themselves the urban or rural authority, this section shall enable such authority to appropriate their land for an open space, and shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to such appropriation in like manner as it applies to the conveyance.

8. Expenses.] (1.) All expenses incurred under this Act by an urban or a rural authority shall be deemed to have been incurred in the execution of the Public Health Act, 1875, and shall be defrayed accordingly, and the purposes of this Act shall be deemed to be the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1875.

4. Amendment of 47 48 Vict. c. 72.] In the Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884, and this Act, the expression "burial ground shall have the same meaning as in the Metropolitan Open Spaces (2.) Provided that the expenses incurred by a Act, 1881, as amended by this Act, and the expression "disused burial ground "shall mean any rural authority shall be deemed to be special exburial ground which is no longer used for inter-penses under that Act incurred in respect of the ments, whether or not such ground shall have been contributory place or places for which the partially or wholly closed for burials under the powers of this Act are exercised, and all the proprovisions of any statute or Order in Council, and visions of the Public Health Act, 1875, which the expression "building" shall include any tem- would be applicable in the case of an apportionment of special expenses, for works for the comorary or moveable building. mon benefit of two or more contributory places, shall apply to any such expenses.

5. Extension of certain provisions of Metropolitan
Open Spaces Acts to urban and certain rural sanitary
districts.] All the provisions of the principal Acts
as amended by this Act (except sections four, five,
six, seven, and eight of the Metropolitan Open
Spaces Act, 1877, and so much of section six of
the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, as begins
byelaws made under this Act"
with the words "
and ends with the figures "1855," and also except
sections ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen of the last-
mentioned Act), shall extend and be applicable to
and in respect of any and every urban sanitary dis-
trict, and any and every rural sanitary district in
respect of which the sanitary authority shall have
been invested by an order of the Local Govern-
ment Board with the powers of this Act, and to
the open spaces and burial grounds in such dis-
tricts respectively; and for the purpose of such
extension and application to every such district,
every urban authority and every such rural
authority shall have and may exercise, and
there shall be vested in such authority
in and for its district, all and every or any such
powers, authorities, and capacities in respect of,
or in relation to, open spaces or burial grounds
within such district as the Metropolitan Board of
Works, herein called the Metropolitan Board, by
virtue of the principal Acts as amended by this
Act have or may exercise or enjoy with regard to
open spaces or burial grounds within the
Metropolis or any of them; and for the purposes
of this Act and in respect of any and every open
space or burial ground within any such sanitary
district, and of any and every such authority, the
principal Acts shall be read and take effect as if
the word " Metropolis" when used therein meant
the same sanitary district, and as if the words
"Metropolitan Board" and "Board" when used
therein meant the sanitary authority of the same
district, and as if the words “ any two or more
London daily papers," whenever they occur there-
in, meant any two or more local newspapers
circulating within the sanitary district."

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9. Saving for Crown lands.] This Act shall not extend to any land belonging to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown or of Her Duchy of Lancaster, or to any garden or ornamental ground for the time being under the management of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings.

10. Byelaws.] All the provisions with respect to byelaws contained in sections one hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six (both inclusive) of the Public Health Act, 1875, shall apply to all byelaws from time to time made by an urban or rural authority under the powers of this Act, and the penalties imposed by any such byelaws may be recovered in a summary manner.

11. Power over open spaces already vested in sanitary authority.] The Metropolitan Board or the sanitary authority may exercise all the powers given to them by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, or this Act respecting open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial grounds transferred to them in pursuance of the said Act or of this Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial grounds of a similar nature which are or shall be vested in them in pursuance of any other statute, or of which they are otherwise the owners.

12. Power of Metropolitan Board with respect to public walks or pleasure grounds.] The Metropolitan Board may purchase or take on lease, lay out, plant, improve, and maintain lands for the purpose of being used as public walks or pleasure grounds, and may support or contribute to the support of public walks or pleasure grounds provided by any person whomsoever.

13. Extension of Acts to Ireland.] The principa Acts and this Act shall apply to Ireland, subject to the following provisions :

In the said Acts

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References to the Public Health Act, 1875, shall be construed as references to the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 [41 & 42 Vict. c. 52], and the reference to sections one hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six of the first-mentioned Act shall be construed as referring to sections two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twenty-three of the latter Act. Reference to any private or local Act of Parliament shall be construed so as to

include any Act of the Parliament of

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Ireland. References to a "district board," "vestry,' "corporation,' 66 Metropolitan Board," shall be construed as references to the

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sanitary authority. References to the London daily papers shall be construed as references to any newspapers, daily or weekly, circulating within the district of the sanitary authority. References to Her Majesty's Council shall be construed as references to Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland. References to the Local Government Board shall be construed as references to the Local Government Board for Ireland. References to the Lands Clauses Act, 1845,

shall be construed as references to that Act, as amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidaation Acts Amendment Act, 1860 [23 & 24 Vict. c. 106], the Railways (Ireland) Act, 1851 [14 & 15 Vict. c. 70], the Railways (Ireland) Act, 1860 [23 & 24 Vict. c. 97], the Railways (Ireland) Act, 1864 [27 & 28 Vict. c. 71], and the Railways Traverse Act [31 & 32 Vict. c. 70].

Nothing contained in the principal Acts or in this Act shall apply to any land for the time being under the management of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, or belonging to the Benchers of the King's Inns in Dublin.

14. Short title and construction.] This Act may be cited as the Open Spaces Act, 1887, and may be read with the principal Acts as one Act.

SCHEDULE.

Portions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, repealed.

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In section one, the following words occurring in 66 viz., but the definition of an "open space,' shall not include any enclosed land which has not a public road or footpath completely round the same."

In the same section, the following words occurring in the definition of a "burial ground," viz., "and in which interments have taken place since the year 1800."

In the second paragraph of section five, the words, district board shall not allow the playing of any "but such metropolitan board, vestry, or games or sports therein."

CAP. XXXIII.

An Act to amend the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, and the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and for other purposes connected therewith. [23rd August 1887.

CAP. XXXIV.

An Act for the transfer to the Metropolitan Board of Works and the maintenance of certain Public Parks and Works in the Metropolis. [23rd August 1887.

1. Short title.

viz., Victoria Park, Battersea Park, Kennington 2. Transfer of certain London parks and works— Embankment to the Metropolitan Board of Works. Park, Bethnal Green Museum Girden, and Chelsea 3. Byelaws.

4. Cesser of obligations of Commissioners of Works. 5. Amendment of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 53.

6. Transfer of officers.

7. Date of transfer—viz., 1st November, 1887. SCHEDULE. ACTS REPEALED.

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An Act for amending the Allowances payable to Clerks of General Meetings of Lieutenancy. [16th September 1887. Whereas under the enactments specified in the

schedule to this Act the clerks of the general and sub-division meetings of lieutenancy are entitled to certain allowances in respect of duties under the laws relating to the Yeomanry and to the Volunteer force; and it is expedient that those allowances be reduced in the case of clerks who have accepted office with notice that their allowances are liable to reduction and be abolished in the case of clerks hereafter appointed:

Be it therefore enacted, &c.:

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Lieutenancy Clerks Allowances Act, 1887.

2. Reduction and gradual abolition of allowances to lieutenancy clerks] (1) A clerk of general or subdivision meetings of lieutenancy, if first appointed after the passing of this Act, shall not be entitled to any allowance under the enactments specified in the schedule to this Act.

(2.) Where any such clerk has accepted office with notice that his allowances under the said enactments are liable to reduction, those allowances may be reduced by such amount as appears to one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State to be equitable.

(3.) The enactments specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned, except as to clerks first appointed before the passing of this Act.

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CAP. XXXVII. An Act to grant money for the purpose of certain Local Loans; and for other purposes relating to Local Loans. [16th September 1887.

CAP. XXXVIII. An Act to provide for the earlier closing of premises licensed for the sale of Exciseable Liquors in Scotland. [16th September 1887.

CAP. XXXIX.

An Act to make provision for altering and varying Lunacy Districts in Scotland. [16th September 1887.

CAP. XL.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to Savings Banks and to the Purchase of Small Government Annuities, and to assuring Payments of Money after Death. [16th September 1887. Be it enacted, &c. :

PART I.

Post Office Savings Banks. 1. Extension of power of Postmaster-General to make regulations for post office savings banks.] Whereas

the Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861 [24 & 25 Vict. c. 14], declared that the enactments then in matters for which no other provision was made by force relating to trustee savings banks, as to that Act, should be deemed applicable to that Act, so far as such enactments were not repugnant to that Act, and the enactments so applied included those mentioned in the third column of the First tioned in that schedule, which were in force in Schedule to this Act, and the enactments men1863, were, so far as regards trustee savings banks, repealed and consolidated by the Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1863 [26 & 27 Vict. c. 87], and were amended by the Provident Nominations and Small Intestacies Act, 1883 [46 & 47 Vict. c. 47]:

And whereas under section eleven of the Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861, and subsequent Acts relating to post office savings banks, the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Treasury, has power to make regulations with respect to the making of deposits in post office savings banks, and matters incidental to the carrying of the said Acts into execution, and for the other purposes in the said Acts mentioned:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the power of the Postmaster-General with respect to the said regulations: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1.) The regulations made by the PostmasterGeneral with the consent of the Treasury in pursuance of the Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861, and of other Acts relating to post office savings banks, may provide―

(a.) for the payment or transfer of sums in any post office savings bank which belong to persons appearing to be minors or of unsound mind, or form part of the personal estate of any person appearing to be deceased, and

(b.) for the transfer of deposits from one account to another account, whether an existing or a new account, and

(c.) for determining the evidence to be accepted by the Postmaster-General of any matter for the purpose of the payment or transfer of any sum, and

(d.) for determining the receipts which are to be a good discharge to the Postmaster-General in the case of the payment or transfer of any sum, and (e.) for applying to post office savings banks all or any of the enactments of the Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1863 [26 & 27 Vict. c. 87], either without modification or with such modification as may seem necessary or proper for the better execution of the Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861, and subsequent Acts relating to post office savings banks.

(2.) Provided that such regulations shall prohibit a person from being a depositor in both a trustee and a post office savings bank, or from having two separate accounts in the post office savings bank, and shall require such declaration from a depositor as may be necessary for pre

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2. Regulations for trustee savings banks.] The Treasury shall from time to time make, revoke, alter, or add to regulations for the purpose of extending to trustee savings banks any regulation made in pursuance of this Act with respect to post office savings banks so far as those regulations provide

(a.) for the payment or transfer of sums which belong to persons appearing to be minors or of unsound mind, or form part of the personal estate of any person appearing to be

deceased; or (b.) for the transfer of deposits from one account to another account, whether an existing or a new account; or (c.) for determining the evidence to be accepted of any matter for the purpose of the payment or transfer of any sum; or (d.) for determining the receipts which are to be a good discharge in the case of the payment or transfer of any sum.

3. Regulations as to deposit of deceased depositor.] (1.) The regulations made in pursuance of this Act may also provide

(a.) for the nomination by a depositor not being under sixteen years of age of any person or persons to whom any sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred pounds payable to such depositor at his decease (including any portion of any annuity or accrued interest payable to the representatives of such depositor) is or are to be paid at such decease, and (b.) for the revocation of such nomination and for the payment of the specified amount to any nominee so nominated, and (c.) for the effect and construction of such nomination in the event of the sums due to the depositor exceeding one hundred pounds, and may provide for it taking effect as respects an amount or amounts not excceding one hundred pounds in like manner as if it were a will of the deceased duly executed, and that notwithstanding want of due execution, minority, or marriage. (2.) Where the sum in a savings bank which forms part of the personal estate of a person appearing to be deceased does not exceed one hundred pounds, then, if the regulations under this Act so provide, and subject to such regulations, probate, or other proof of the title of the personal representative of the deceased person may be dispensed with, and such sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing in manner provided by the said regulations to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of such deceased person, whether under such nomination of the deceased person as is allowed by the regulations, or by law, or as next of kin, or as creditors, or otherwise, or to or among any one or more of such persons, exclusively of the others, or in case of any illegitimacy of the deceased person or his children, to or among such person or persons as may be directed by the said regulations, and the person making such payment shall be

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discharged from all liability in respect of the sum paid in accordance with the said regulations.

draft of all regulations proposed to be made in 4. Laying of regulations before Parliament.] The pursuance of this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament for not less than forty days before they are made, and all such regulations when made shall come into operation at the time therein mentioned, and shall be binding on all persons as if they were enacted in this Act.

5. Amendment of 43 & 44 Vict. c 36 as to minimum sum of stock to be invested.] The minimum amount of Government stock in which a deposit may be invested in pursuance of the Savings Banks Act, 1880, shall be such amount as may be from time to time fixed by regulations made in pursuance of that Act, and the amount so fixed for the time being shall be substituted for ten pounds stock or stock of the value of ten pounds, wherever reference is made to that amount of stock in the said Act and Acts amending the same.

6. Exception of money invested in computing annual maximum.] When any sums not deposited for immediate investment are invested by any savings bank authority, on the request of the depositor, in any Government stock, any sums previously deposited in the same savings bank year by such depositor shall not, except so far as they exceed in the aggregate the sums invested in that year, be reckoned in computing the maximum amount which is allowed to be deposited in that year.

7. Amendment of 43 & 44 Vict. c. 36 as to investments for lunatics and minors] Regulations made under the Savings Banks Act, 1880, may provide for the investment in Government stock in accordance with that Act of sums standing to the account of a depositor who is a minor or a lunatic.

in this part of this Act shall have the same mean8. Construction of part of Act.] (1.) Expressions ing as they have in the Savings Banks Act, 1880. Banks Act, 1880, and of the Government Annuities (2.) So much of any enactment of the Savings Act, 1882 45 & 46 Vict. c. 51], and of any other enactment as applies for the purposes of such enactment or Act the enactments relating to sav

ings banks, and the regulations made in pursuance of those enactments, shall be deemed to apply for the same purposes this part of this Act, and save as otherwise provided by regulations under this part of this Act, shall be deemed also to apply for the same purposes those regulations.

PART II.

Government Annuities.

PART III.

Supplemental

10. Price of certificate of birth, death, or marriage.] For the purpose of the Acts relating to Post Office Savings Banks or to trustee savings banks, and of the Government Annuities Acts, 1829 to 1882, a certificate of the birth or death or marriage of any depositor, or of any person insured under any of the above-mentioned Acts, shall be given under his hand by a registrar of births and deaths or marriages, or other person having the care of the register in which such birth or death or marriage is entered for a sum not exceeding one shilling in place of all fees or payments in respect of the same, on application being made for the same in such form and under such regulations as may be from time to time approved of by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively.

11. Repeal.] The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned, be repealed as from the date at which any regulations with respect to post office savings banks made in pursuance of Part One of this Act come into operation;

Provided that the repeal by this section shall not affect anything previously done or suffered in pursuance of any enactment hereby repealed.

The Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned, be repealed as from the date at which any regulations with respect to trustee savings banks made in pursuance of Part One of this Act come into operation.

Savings Banks Act, 1887. 12. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the

The following Acts and enactments, that is to say:

& 25 Vict. c. 14]; (a.) The Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861 [24

(b.) The enactments applied by that Act which are for the time being in force;

(c.) Section one of the Act of the session of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter 14, intituled ** Act to amend the law relating to Post Office Savings Banks":

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(d.) The Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1874 [37 & 38 Vict. c. 73];

(e.) The Savings Banks Act, 1880 [43 & 44 Vict. c. 36], so far as it relates to post office savings banks; and

(f.) Parts One and Three of this Act, may be cited together as the Post Office Savings Bank Acts, 1861 to 1887.

The Government Annuities Acts, 1829 [10 Geo. 4, c. 24] to 1882 [45 & 46 Vict. c. 51], and Parts Two and Three of this Act, may be cited together as the Government Annuities Acts, 1829 to 1887.

9. Amendment of 45 & 46 Vict. c. 51, s. 8, as to
insurance on life of third person.] Notwithstanding
anything in section eight of the Government
Annuities Act, 1882, a savings bank annuity
depending on the life of any person may, under
such circumstances as are permitted by the regula-
tions made under the Government Annuities Act,
1864 [27 & 28 Vict. c. 43], as amended by the
above-mentioned Act, be granted to any other
person, and when so granted may be transferred,
so however, that the amount of annuity or an-
nuities granted on the life of any person do not
exceed in the whole the amount of any annuity
which could have been granted to such person.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE.
ENACTMENTS RELATING TO POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS REFERRED TO AND REPEALED.

Title.

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to savings banks.

13. Extension of Acts to Channel Islands.] The Post Office Savings Bank Acts, 1861 to 1887, and the Government Annuities Acts, 1829 to 1887, shall extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the Royal Courts of the Channel Islands shall register the same.

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An Act to extend to Scotland certain provisions of an Act of the ninth year of His late Majesty, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to savings banks, and to consolidate and amend the laws relating to savings banks in Scotland.

An Act to amend the laws relating to savings banks, and to the purchase of Government annuities through the medium of savings banks.

The Provident Nominations and Small Intestacies Act, 1883.

Section four (application of the law of Scotland as regards payment to relations of deceased depositor).

Section three (declaration by depositors on first deposit).
Section five (production of book by depositor).
Section seven (trust accounts).

Section ten (payment of deposit of deceased depositor when not exceeding fifty pounds).

Section eleven (payment of deposit of deceased depositor being illegitimate and intestate).

Section twenty (application to Scotland of provisions respecting probate).

Section three, so far as it relates to post office savings banks (raising of fifty pounds to one hundred pounds).

Section four, so far as it relates to post office savings banks (printing of nominations).

Section five, so far as it relates to depositors in post office savings banks (nominating person to receive deposit not exceeding one hundred pounds).

Section ten, so far as it relates to post office savings banks (provisions relating to legacy and probate duty).

Section eleven, so far as it relates to post office savings banks (application to Channel Islands and Isle of Man).

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THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

ENACTMENTS RELATING TO TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS REFERRED TO AND REPEALED.

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Extent of Repeal.

Sections forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, and forty-six.

Section three, so far as it relates to trustee savings banks (raising of fifty pounds to one hundred pounds).

Section four, so far as it relates to trustee savings banks (printing of nominations).

Section five, so far as it relates to depositors in trustee savings banks (nominating person to receive deposit not exceeding one hundred pounds).

Section ten, so far as it relates to trustee savings banks (provisions relating to Legacy and Probate Duty).

Section eleven, so far as it relates to trustee savings banks (application to Channel Islands and Isle of Man).

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within the stannaries.

The term "purser" means the purser for the metalliferous mines and tin streaming works time being of a company, or if there is no purser then the secretary for the time being, or if there is no secretary, then the principal agent or manager for the time being of a company:

The term "cost book " includes all books and papers relating to the business of a mine which are for the time being kept by a purser, or which, according to law or the custom of the stannaries, ought to be kept by him: The term "lessors"

means the lessor or grantor of any lease, or grant of any mine, or licence to exercise mining rights and powers, and includes every person entitled under any such lease, grant, or licence, or any other instrument whatever, to receive the rents or dues payable in respect of any mine: The term "mortgagees" includes all holders of mortgage-debentures, mortgages, or other charges issued by any company: The term "sheriff" includes any officer charged with the execution of a writ or other pro

cess: The term

"miners" includes all artizans, labourers, and other persons working in and about a mine, except the purser, secretary, agent, or manager: The term " wages " includes all earnings by miners arising from any description of piece or other work, or as tributers or otherwise : The term "mining effects" includes machinery, materials, goods, and chattels, and all ores and halvans, and all other personal property appertaining to a mine, or used or intended to be used for mining purposes.

4. Wages to have priority.] Miners employed wholly or in part in or about a mine, in respect of their wages in relation to the mine, not exceeding an amount equal to three months wages to each person, shall have for such wages a first charge upon all mining effects in and about the said mine, belonging to the said mine or to any company by whom the said mine is worked, and upon all money of the company in the count-house or in charge of the purser, agent, or secretary, or other person on behalf of the company, or at the credit of the company at their bankers, and upon all other assets whatever of the company in respect of the said mine, and such first charge shall, subject to the provisions of the tenth section of this Act, have priority over all claims for rents, royalties, dues, or otherwise by the lessors of the said mine, or by mortgagees, or judgment, execution, or other creditors of the said company, or by any other persons whatever.

municated to the manager.]-(1.) If any miner upon 5. Claims of miners on leaving or death to be comleaving a mine shall leave with, or forward to the manager of the said mine, a written memorandum of the wages which he claims to be then owing to him, and also of either his own name and address, or the name and address of some person to act in his behalf, the manager shall forthwith enter such name and address and claim in the books of the company.

(2.) On the notification to the manager of the death of any miner to whom wages are due, the manager shall forthwith enter in the books of the company a memorandum stating the fact of the 3. Extent of Act] This Act extends only to death and the amount of wages due or claimed.

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