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a person may be tried for such offence by any one of such courts:

(4.) Any offence which is authorised by this section to be iried by any court may be dealt with, heard, tried, determined, adjudged, and finished, as if the offence had been wholly committed within the jurisdiction of such court.

11. Application to Government prosecutions-27 & 28 Vict. c. 53.] The Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall apply to all summary proceedings under the statutes relating to the Post Office.

Every offence under the statutes relating to the Post Office for which a person is liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds may be prosecuted in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

The Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall, notwithstanding any special provisions to the contrary contained in any of the statutes relating to Her Majesty's revenue under the control of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or the Commissioners of Customs, apply to all summary proceedings under or by virtue of any of the said statutes; and in such proceedings it shall be lawful to grant decree for the condemnation of goods seized as forfeited under the provisions of the said Acts, and prosecutions under the Revenue Acts shall continue to be subject to appeal to quarter sessions and to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland in manner therein provided:

Provided that where the sum adjudged by conviction under or by virtue of any of the said statutes to be paid exceeds fifty pounds, the period of imprisonment imposed in respect of the non-payment of such sum, or in respect of the default of a sufficient distress to satisfy such sum, may exceed three months but shall not exceed six months.

And the twenty fifth section of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, is hereby repealed in so far as it applies to proceedings under any of the statutes relating to Her Majesty's revenue.

12. Summonses, &c., may be served by police constables.] All summonses, complaints, warrants, orders, or other process in prosecutions under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts at the instance of procurators fiscal, parochial boards, or school boards may be served and executed by police constables within the county, burgh, or police district in which the persons upon whom the same are to be served or executed shall reside or may be found.

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TABLE OF FEES.

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"Open space means any land (whether inclosed or uninclosed) which is not built on, and which is laid out as a garden or is used for purposes of recreation, or lies waste and unoccupied ; but shall not include any inclosed and which has not a public road or footpath completely round the same;

"The metropolis" means the metropolis as defined by the
Metropolis Management Act, 1855;

"The Metropolitan Board" means the Metropolitan Board
of Works as constituted by the same Act;
"Vestry" means a vestry of one of the parishes specified in
Schedule A. of the same Act;

"District board" means a board of works of one of the dis-
tricts specifi-d in Schedule B. of the same Act;
"The corporation" means the mayor and commonalty and
citizens of the city of London, and the powers conferred
upon them by this Act may be exercised by the mayor,
aldermen, and commons of the said city in common
council assembled ;

The "owner" of a churchyard, cemetery, or burial
ground, means the person or persons, corporation sole,
or body corporate, in whom the soil and freebold of such
churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground is vested,
whether as appurtenant or incident to any benefice or
care of souls, or otherwise.

The term "burial ground" shall include any ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for the purposes of interment, and in which interments have taken place since the year 1800.

2. Power to trustees to transfer certain open spaces to heal authority.] Where any open space within the metropolis is under the provisions of any Private or Local Act of Par liament placed under the care and management of trustees or other persons, with a view to the preservation and regulation of the same as a garden or open space, it shall be law. ful for the said trustees or other the managing body thereof for the time being, in pursuance of any resolution duly passed as herein-after mentioned, and with the consent, to be signified in manner herein-after appearing, of the owners and occupiers of any houses fronting upon, or the owners or oc06 cupiers of which are liable to be specially rated for the maintenance of the open space, to convey, assign, or transfer for valuable or nominal consideration, or by way of gift, to the Metropolitan Board, or to the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which such open space or any part thereof is situate, the soil and freehold of, or other their entire interest in, or (where no interest in the soil of such open space is vested in them) the entire care and management of the said open space, to the end that the same may be preserved for the enjoyment of the public; and upon such conveyance, assignment, or transfer such trustees or other managing body shall be relieved and discharged from all trusts, powers, and duties imposed upon them by the Act or other instrument under which they were constituted, or under which they then act or otherwise with reference to the said open space, but shall

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hold any purchase money paid for or in respect of the said open space in trust for the benefit of the persons or class of persons for whose benefit the said open space was previously preserved and managed by the said trustees, and such persons or class of persons shall be discharged from any special rate or other obligation previously imposed on them in respect of such open space.

It shall be lawful for any such trustees or managing body as aforesaid, in pursuance of any such resolution as aforesaid, and with such consent as aforesaid, for any valuable or nominal consideration, by way of rent or otherwise, or without any consideration, to grant or transfer to the Metropolitan Board, or to any such vestry or district board as aforesaid, any term of years or other limited interest in or any right or easement over such open space, or to enter into any agreement with the Metropolitan Board or any such vestry or district board as aforesaid for the opening to the public of such open space, and the care and management thereof by such board or vestry at all times or at any specified time or times, without the transfer to such board or vestry of any interest in the soil of such open space; and any such grant, demise, transfer, or agreement as aforesaid shall be deemed a good execution of the trusts, powers, and duties imposed upon the said trustees by the Act or other instrument under which they are constituted or act.

A resolution under this section shall be deemed to have been duly passed if at a meeting of the trustees or other the persons constituting such managing body as aforesaid, summoned by at least one month's notice in writing left at or sent by post to their last known or usual place of abode, such resolution shall have been passed by a majority of two thirds in number of the persons present at such meeting, and if such resolution shall also have been con. firmed by two thirds in number of the persons present at a second like meeting, to be summoned by such notice as aforesaid, and to be held at an interval of not less than one calendar month from the first meeting.

The consent of such owners and occupiers of houses as aforesaid shall be held to have been given and signified if, at a meeting of such persons summoned by at least one month's notice in writing given as hereinafter directed, a resolution shall have been passed by a majority of at least two thirds in number of the persons present at such meeting consenting to the conveyance, grant, or transfer of the said open space as aforesaid, or to such an agreement with the Metropolitan Board, vestry, or district board as aforesaid; and if such resolution shall also have been confirmed by two thirds in number of such owners and occupiers present at a second like meeting, to be summoned in like manner to the first meeting, and to be held at an interval of not less than one calendar month from the first meeting.

Notice of such meeting shall be given by leaving the same or sending the same through the post to every house fronting upon, or the owner or occupier of which is liable to be specially rated for the maintenance of, the said open space, and by inserting the same as an advertisement at least three times in any two or more London daily papers, and such notice shall state generally the object of the said meeting, and no such meeting shall be held between the first day of August in one year and the thirty-first day of January in the following year.

For the purposes of this section the owner of a house shall include any person entitled to any term of years therein; and the occupier of a house shall be the person rated to the relief of the poor in respect of the said house.

If at any meeting of such trustees or managing body, or at any meeting of such owners or occupiers as before mentioned, the resolution proposed at any such meeting be not carried, no meeting shall be called or held with the same object in respect to the same garden or open space until the expiration of three years from the day on which such resolution so proposed was rejected at any such meeting as above mentioned.

A conveyance, assignment, demise, grant, or agreement under this section shall be made by an instrument ander the common seal of the trustees or other managing body if such body be a corporation, and if it be not a corporation under the hands and seals of any five members

of such body, or of all the members thereof if for the time being they be less than five in number.

The trustees or other the managing body of any such open space as aforesaid may (anything contained in the Act or other instrument under which they are constituted or aot to the contrary rotwithstanding), in pursuance of any such resolution as aforesaid, and with such consent as aforesaid, signified as aforesaid, admit persons not owning, occupying, or residing in any house fronting on the said open space to the enjoyment of the said open space at all times, or at any specified time or times, and may regulate the admission of such persons thereto on such terms and conditions in all respects as the trustees may think proper.

Any trustees so acting as aforesaid shall have the same power of making bye-laws as that conferred by the fourth section of the Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of Her Majesty, chapter thirteen, intituled "An Act for the pro"tection of certain garden or ornamental grounds in cities "and boroughs upon the committee therein mentioned."

Where the freehold of any such open space as is referred to in this section, and the freehold of all or of the major part of the houses round such open space are vested in the same person or persons, the powers conferred by this section shall not be exercised without the consent of such person or persons.

3. Power to transfer other open space to local authority.] The owner of any open space within the metropolis which is subject to rights of user for exercise and recreation (secured by covenant or otherwise) in the owners and occupiers (or either of such classes) of any houses round or near the same may, with the consent (to be signified in manner herein after app-aring) of such owners and occupiers of houses, convey to the Metropolitan Board, or to the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which such open spice or any part thereof is situate, the soil of the said open space in trust for the enjoyment of the public; and the owner or any person or persons in whom any tern of years or other limited interest in such open space is vested may, with the like consent, grant or transfer to the Metropolitan Board or such vestry or district board as aforesaid, in trust as aforesaid, any term of years or other limited interest in or any right or easement over such open space, or enter into any agreement with the Metropolitan Board or any such vestry or district board as aforesaid for the opening to the public of such open space, and the care and management thereof by such board or vestry either at all times or at any specified time or times without the transfer to such board or vestry of any interest in the soil of such open space.

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The consent of such owners and occupiers of houses aforesaid shall be held to have been given and signified if at a meeting of such persons summoned by at least notice month's 89 hereinin writing (given after directed) a resolution shall have been passed by a majority of at least two thirds in number of the persons present at such meeting consenting to the conveyance, grant, or transfer of the said open space as aforesaid, or to such an agreement with the Metropolitan Board, vestry, or district board as aforesaid, and the owner shall be thereupon discharged from any liability to any person entitled to such right of user as afcres id in respect of any act done in accordance with such resolution.

Notice of such meeting shall be given by leaving the same or sending the same through the post to every house, the owner or occupier of which is entitled to any right of user, and by inserting the same as an advertisement at least three times in any two or more London daily papers, and such notice shall state generally the object of the said meeting; and no such meeting shall be held between the first day of August in one year and the thirty-first day of January in the following year.

For the purposes of this section the owner of an open space shall be any person or persons in whom the soil of the open space is vested for an estate in possession during his or their life or lives or for any larger estate; the owner of a house shall include any person entitled to any term of years therein; and the occupier of a house shall be the person rated to the relief of the poor in respect of the said house.

4. Power to transfer disused burial grounds to local authority.] The owner of any churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground situate within the metropolis and closed for burials

either under an order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, or otherwise, may convey the soil of such churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, or grant any term of years or other limited interest therein to or enter into any agreement with the Metropolitan Board or the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which such churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, or any part thereof, is situate for the purpose of giving the public access to the said churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, and preserving the same as an open space accessible to the public, and under the control of such board or vestry, and for the purpose of improving and laying out the same.

5. Powers and duties of local authority.] The Metropolitan Board and the vestry or district board of the parish or district within which any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, or any part thereof, is stuate may, by agreement, and for valuable or nominal consideration by way of payment in gross or of rent, or otherwis, or without any consideration, take and hold the soil and freehold of, or any term of years or other limited estate or interest in, or any right or easement in or over any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, and may, with reference to any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, undertake the entire or partial care, management, and control thereof, whether any interest in the soil is transferred to the board or vestry or not, and may for the purposes aforesaid enter into any agreement with the persons authorised by this Act to agree with reference to any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground or with any other persons interested therein.

Any estate or interest in or control over any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground acquired by the Metropolitan Board, or any vestry or district board under the provisions of this Act, shall be held and administered by such board or vestry in trust to allow, and with a view to, the enjoyment by the public of such open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground in an open condition, free from buildings and under proper control and regulation, and for no other purpose, but such Metropolitan Board, vestry, or district board shall not allow the playing of any games or sports therein; and the board or ves ry shall maintain and keep the same in a good and decent state, and may inclose or keep the same inclosed with proper railings and gates, and may drain, level, lay out, turf, plant, ornament, light, seat, and otherwise improve the same, and do all such works and things, and employ sach officers and servants, as may be requisite for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them.

Provided that no board or vestry shall exercise any of the powers of management in this Act mentioned with reference to any consecrated ground, unless and until they are authorised so to do by the license or faculty in that behalf of the bishop of the diocese in which such consecrated ground is situate, which li ense or faculty may be granted by such bishop upon the application of the board or vestry, and may extend to the removal of any tomb-stone or monument, under such conditions and subject to such restrictions as to the bishop may seem fit.

6. Byelaws.] The Metropolitan Board and any vestry or district board inay, with reference to any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground in or over which it has acquired any estate, interest, or control under the provisions of this Act, make byelaws for the regulation thereof, and of the days and times of admission thereto, and the preservation of order and prevention of nuisances therein, and may by such byelaws impose penalties for the infringement thereof and provide for the removal of any person infringing any such byelaw by any officer of the board or vestry or police constable.

Byelaws made under this Act shall be made in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as byelaws made by the Metropolitan Board or by a vestry or district board, as the case may be, under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.

7. Metropolitan Board and vestry or district bard may carry out Act jointly.] The Metropolitan Board, or any vestry or district bard, and where an open space extends into two or more parishes or districts two or more vestries or district boards, either with or without the Metropolitan Board, may jointly carry out the provisions of this Act, and may enter into any a reement, on such terms as may be arranged between them, for so doing and for defraying the expense of the execution of the Act, and the Metropolitan

Board may defray the whole or any part of the expenses of the execution of this Act by any vestry or district board, and any vestry or district board may similarly defray the whole or any part of the expenses of the Metropolitan Board or, where an open space extends into two or more parishes or districts, of any other vestry or district board.

8. Provision for extra-parochial places.] Where any open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground, by virtue of any Act of Parliament or otherwise, is extra-parochial, cr forms part of some parish other than that which surrounds the game, the vestry or district board acting for the parish surrounding the same may carry out, or may enter into agreement with any one or more vestries or district boards acting for any other parishes, on such terms as may be arranged between them, and may jointly carry out, the provisions of this Act, and shall have the same powers in every respect as if such open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground were part of the parish or district of such vestry or district board.

9. Provision for compensation-8 & 9 Vict. e. 18.] No estate, interest, or right of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting an open space, churchyard, cemetery, or burial ground shall, except with the consent of the body or person entitled thereto, be taken away or injuriously affected by anything done under this Act without compensa. tion being made for the same; and such compensation shall be paid by the Metropolitan Board, vestry, or district board by which such estate, interest, or right is taken away or injuriously affected, and shall, in case of difference, be ascer tained and provided in the same manner as if the same compensation were for the compulsory purchase and taking or the injurious affecting of lands under the provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and any Acts amending the same.

10. Expenses.] All expenses incurred under this Act by the Metropolitan Board or by any vestry or district board shall be defrayed out of the funds at their disposal respectively, or which they respectively are empowered to raise under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the several Acts amending the same, and such expenses shall be deemed to be expenses for which provision is made by such Acts.

11. Extent of Act-14 & 15 Vict. c. 95-29 & 30 Fiet. c. 122-32 & 33 Vict. c. 107.] This Act shall extend only to the metropolis, and shall not extend to the royal parks or to any land belonging to Her Majesty in right of her Crown or of her Dachy of Lancaster, or to any garden, ornamental ground, or ornamental land for the time being under the management of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings or of the Commissioners for the time being acting under the Crown Estate Paving Act, 1851, or to any metropolitan common within the meaning of the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, and the Metropolitan Commons Amendment Act, 1869.

12. Application in city of London—41 & 42 Vict. c. cxxvii.] The powers in this Act conferred on and in relation to the Metropolitan Board, vestries, and district boards shall in the city of London be exercised by and have relation to the corporation, who shall defray, out of the metage of grain duty or otherwise, all the expenses caused by or connected with the execution of such powers by them; and any byelaws made by the corporation for the regula tion of any open space acquired under the powers of this Act shall be made and allowed in manner prescribed by the Corporation of London (Open Spaces) Act, 1878.

13. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881; and this Act and the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1877, may together be cited as the Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881.

CAP. XXXV.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Coroners in Ireland. [11th August 1881.

CAP. XXXVI.

An Act to authorise the establishment of a Court of Appeal for Her Majesty's colony of British Honduras. [11th August 1881.

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CAP. XXXVII.

An Act to consolidate the Alkali Acts, 1863 and 1874, and to make further provision for regulating Alkali and certain other works in which noxious or offensive gases are evolved. [11th August 1881.

Be it enacted, &c.:

PRELIMINARY.

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Alkali, &c., Works Regulation Act, 1881.

2. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall (save as otherwise provided in this Act) come into operation on the first day of January, 1882, which date is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act.

PART I.

Alkali Works and Alkali Waste.

3. Condensation of muriatic and other acid gases in alkali works.] Every alkali work shall be carried on in such manner as to secure the condensation, to the satisfaction of the chief inspector, derived from his own examination, or from that of some other inspector

(a.) Of the muriatic acid gas evolved in such work, to the

extent of ninety-five per centum, and to such an extent that in each cubic foot of air, smoke, or chimney gases, escaping from the works into the atmosphere, there is not contained more than one-fifth part of a grain of muriatic acid.

(b.) Of the acid gases of sulphur and nitrogen which are evolved in the process of manufacturing sulphuric acid or sulphates in the work, to such an extent that the total acidity of such gases in each cubic foot of air, smoke, or gases, escaping into the chimney or into the atmosphere, does not exceed what is equivalent to four grains of sulphuric anhydride. The owner of any alkali work which is carried on in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, fifty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, one hundred pounds.

4. Best practicable means to be used for preventing discharge of noxious and offensive gases in alkali works.] In addition to the condensation of acid gases as aforesaid, the owner of every alkali work shall use the best practicable means for preventing the discharge into the atmosphere of all noxious gases and of all offensive gases evolved in such work, or for rendering such gases harmless and inoffensive when discharged, subject to the qualification that no objection shall be taken under this section by an inspector to any discharge of gas by a chimney or flue, on the basis of the amount of acid gas per cubic foot of air, smoke, or gases, where that amount does not exceed the amount limited by the last preceding section.

If the owner of any alkali work fails, in the opinion of the court having cognizance of the matter, to use such means, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, twenty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, fifty pounds, with a further sum not exceeding five pounds for every day during which any such subsequent offence has continued.

5. Acid drainage and alkali waste to be kept apart-39 & 40 Vict. c. 75.] Every work in which acid is produced or used shall be carried on in such manner that the acid shall not come in contact with alkali waste, or with drainage therefrom, so as to cause a nuisance.

The owner of any work which is carried on in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, fifty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, one hundred pounds, with a further sum not exceeding five pounds for every day during which any such subsequent offence has continued.

On the request of the owner of any such work as is mentioned in this section the sanitary authority of the district in which such work is situate shall, at the expense of such owner, provide and maintain a drain or channel for carrying off the acid produced in such work into the sea or into any river or watercourse into which such acid can be carried without contravention of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876; and the sanitary authority shall for the purpose of providing any such drain or channel have the like powers

as they have for providing sewers, whether within or without their district, under the Public Health Act.

Compensation shall be made to any person for any damage sustained by him by reason of the exercise by a sanitary authority of the powers conferred by this section, and such compensation shall be deemed part of the expenses to be paid by the owner making the request to the sanitary authority under this section.

6. Deposit or discharge of alkali waste.] Alkali waste shall not be deposited or discharged without the best practicable means being used for effectually preventing any nuisance arising therefrom.

Any person who causes or knowingly permits any alkali waste to be deposited or discharged in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, twenty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, fifty pounds, with a further sum not exceeding five pounds for every day during which any such subsequent offence has continued.

7. Prevention of nuisance from alkali waste already deposited or discharged.] Where alkali waste has been deposited or discharged, either before or after the com. mencement of this Act, and complaint is made to the chief inspector that a nuisance is occasioned thereby, the chief inspector, if satisfied of the existence of the nuisance, and that it is within the power of the owner or occupier of the land to abate it, shall serve a notice on such owner or Occupier requiring him to abate the ruisance; and if such owner or occupier fails to use the best practicable and reasonably available means for the abatement thereof he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and if he does not proceed to use such means within such time as shall be limited by the court inflicting such fine then he shall be liable to a further penalty of five pounds per day from the expiration of the time so limited.

PART II.

Sulphuric Acid Works and other specified Works. 8. Condensation of acid gases in sulphuric acid works.] Every sulphuric acid work as defined in the schedule to this Act shall be carried on in such manner as to secure the condensation, to the satisfaction of the chief inspector, derived from his own examination or from that of some other inspector, of the acid gases of sulphur and nitrogen which are evolved in the process of the manufacture of sulphuric acid in such work, to such an extent that the total acidity of such gases in each cubic foot of air, smoke, or gases escaping into the chimney or into the atmosphere does not exceed what is equivalent to four grains of sulphuric anhydride.

The owner of any sulphuric acid work which is carried on in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, fifty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, one hundred pounds.

9. Best practicable means to be used for preventing discharge of noxious and offensive gases in scheduled works.] The owner of any work specified in the schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to as a scheduled work) shall use the best practicable means for preventing the discharge into the atmosphere of all noxious gases and of all offensive gases evolved in such work, or for rendering such gases barmless and inoffensive when discharged, subject to the qualification, in the case of sulphuric acid works, that no objection shall be taken under this section by an inspector to any discharge of gas by a chimney or flue, on the basis of the amount of acid gas per cubic foot of air smoke or gases, where that amount does not exceed the amount limited by the last preceding section.

If the owner of any such work fails, in the opinion of the court having cognizance of the matter, to use such means, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, twenty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, fifty pounds, with a further sum not exceeding five pounds for every day during which any such subsequent offence bas continued.

10. Provisional Order to prevent discharge of certain gases in salt works.] An inspector may from time to time inquire whether, in any works in which the extraction of salt from brine is carried on, hereinafter called salt works, means can be adopted at a reasonable expense for preventing the discharge from the furnaces or chimneys of such works into the

atmosphere of sulphurous and muriatic acid gases evolved in such works, or either of such gases, or for rendering such gases, or either of them, harmless or inoffensive when discharged; also whether in any works in which aluminous deposits are treated for the purpose of making cement, herein-after called cement works, such means as aforesaid can be adopted with respect to the noxious or offensive gases evolved from such works.

Where it appears to the Local Government Board that such means can be adopted at a reasonable expense the Board may from time to time by order require the owners of such works to adopt the best practicable means for the purpose, and may by the order limit the amount or proportion, in the case of salt works, of sulphurous or muriatic acid gas, and in the case of cement works of any noxious or offensive gas, which is to be permitted to escape from such works into the chimney or into the atmosphere, and may also by the order extend to such works such provisions of this Act relating to scheduled works as they see fit.

An order made under this section shall be provisional only and shall not be of any validity until confirmed by Parliament, but when so confirmed shall have full effect, with such modifications as may be made therein by Parliament; and the expression "this Act" when used in this Act shall be deemed to include an order so confirmed, so far as is consistent with the tenor of that order.

The Board shall take such steps as they may think fit for giving notice to persons interested of the provisions of any order made by them under this section before any Bill for confirming the same is introduced into Parliament.

An order made under this section may impose fines for a breach of its provisions of like amount as any fines imposed by this Act for offences against this Act.

PART III.

(i.) Registration of Works.

11. Registration of works and stamp duty.] (1.) An alkali work or a work to which Part II. of this Act applies shall not, after the first day of April 1882, be carried on unless it is certified to be registered.

(2.) The work shall be registered in a register containing the prescribed particulars, and the register shall be conducted and the certificates issued in, the prescribed

manner.

(3.) The owner of an alkali work or of a work required to be registered shall in the month of January or February in every year apply for a certificate of registration in the prescribed manner, and on such application and compliance with the conditions as to registration the certificate shall be issued, and shall be in force for one year from the first day of April following the said application.

(4.) The owner of an alkali work or of a work required to be registered erected after the commencement of this Act shall before commencing any manufacture or process in such work apply for such certificate in the prescribed manner, and on such application and compliance with the conditions as to registration the certificate shall be issued as soon as may be, and shall be in force until the next first day of April.

There shall be charged in respect of every such certificate, in the case of an alkali work, the duty of five pounds; and in the case of a work required to be registered, not being an alkali work, the duty of three pounds.

(5.) Written notice of any change which occurs in the ownership of a work or in the other particulars stated in the register shall within one month after such change be sent by the owner to an inspector, and the register and the certificate shall be altered accordingly in the prescribed manner without charge and without the issue of a new certificate. If such notice is not sent as required the work shall not be deemed to be certified to be registered.

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12 Certificate of inspector prior to registration of new works. An alkali work or a scheduled work, erected after the commencement of this Act, or which has been closed for

a period of twelve months, shall not be registered under this Act unless the work is furnished with such appliances as at the time of registration appear to the chief inspector after his own examination, or that of an inspector, or in case of difference to the central authority, to be necessary in order to enable the work to be carried on in accordance with such requirements of this Act as for the time being apply to such work.

13. Supplemental provisions as to duties.] The duties charged in respect of a certificate of registration under this Act shall be stamp duties under the management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and all the Acts relating to stamp duties, particularly those relating to forgery fraudulent dies and other offences in connexion with stamp duties, shall apply accordingly; and for the purpose of the said duties the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall issue stamped forms of certificate, and the Commissioners may issue the same at any time after the passing of this Act.

(ii.) Inspection.

14. Appointment of inspectors-26 & 27 Vict. c. 124-37 & 38 Vict. c. 43.] The Local Government Board shall at any time after the passing of this Act, and from time to time, with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury as to numbers and salaries or remuneration, appoint such inspectors (under whatever title they from time to time fix) as the Board think necessary for the execution of this Act, and may assign them their duties and award them their salaries or remuneration, and shall constitute a chief inspector, and may regulate the cases and manner in which the inspectors, or any of them, are to execute and perform the powers and duties of inspectors under this Act, and may remove such inspectors.

Notice of the appointment of every such inspector shall be published in the London Gazette, and a copy of the Gazette shall be evidence of the appointment.

The salaries or remuneration of the inspectors, and such expenses of the execution of this Act as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may sanction, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

The inspector appointed before the commencement of this Act under the Alkali Acts 1863 and 1874, shall be deemed to be the first chief inspector under this Act, and the subinspectors appointed under those Acts before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be inspectors appointed under this Act. A person holding the office of chief inspector (other than the person at the commencement of this Act discharging the duties thereof) or inspector shall not be employed in any other work except by or with the sanction of the authority appointing him to such office.

15. Disqualification of certain persons for inspectors.] A person who acts or practises as a land agent, or who is engaged or interested directly or indirectly in any work to which this Act applies, or in any patent for any process or apparatus carried on or used in any such work, or in any process or apparatus connected with the condensation of scid gases, or with the treatment of alkali Waste, or with preventing the discharge into the atmosphere or rendering harmless or inoffensive any noxious or offensive gas or otherwise with any of the matters dealt with by this Act, or who is employed in or about or in connection with any work to which this Act applies, or in any other chemical work for gain, shall be disqualified to act as an inspector under this Act.

16. Powers of inspectors.] For the purpose of the execution of this Act, an inspector may at all reasonable times by day or night, without giving previous notice, but so as not to interrupt the process of the manufacture, enter and inspect any work to which this Act applies, and examine any process causing the evolution of any noxious or offensive gas, and any apparatus for condensing any such gas, or otherwise preventing the discharge thereof into the atmosphere, or for rendering any such gas harmless or inoff-nsive when discharged, and may ascertain the quantity of gas dis charged into the atmosphere, condensed, or otherwise dea't with; and may enter and inspect any place where alkali waste is treated or deposited, or where any liquid containing acid is likely to come into contact with alkali waste; and generally may inquire into all matters and processes which tend to show compliance or non-compliance with such of the provisions of this Act as are for the time being

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