Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6).

2. In subsection (3) of Section 234 of the Act of 1918 the words from "and thereafter the charges to be made" to the end of the subsection shall be omitted.

A.D. 1926.

Sheffield Order. Repeal of provision in the Act of 1918.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act of Tolls &c. in

5 1918

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respect of the abattoir

(i) The Corporation in respect of their abattoir undertaking and market.
may charge any sums not exceeding those set forth
in the Schedule to this Order and those sums shall be
substituted for the corresponding charges set forth in
the parts headed "For Slaughtering" and "Lairage
respectively in the Fifth Schedule to the Act of 1918
Provided that for a period of five years after the pro-
vision of the abattoir undertaking under the Act of
1918 the maximum charges to be made by the Corpora-
tion in respect of the slaughtering of bulls bullocks
cows oxen steers or heifers shall not exceed the sum of
five shillings.

(ii) The Corporation may charge in respect of stands in
the dead meat market for the sale of home-grown dead
meat any rent not exceeding threepence per square foot
per week during the period of five years aforesaid and
fourpence per square foot per week thereafter.

ments to

sinking

4. Notwithstanding anything in the Act of 1918 where Interest on sums are set apart as a sinking fund for the purpose of paying and pay25 off principal moneys borrowed by the Corporation under any statutory borrowing power as defined in that Act the interest funds. received in any year from the investment of the sums so set apart shall form part of the revenue fund or rate out of which the sums were set apart and in the case of an accumulating 30 sinking fund the contributions to the sinking fund out of such revenue fund or rate shall in that year be increased by a sum equal to the interest that would have accrued to the sinking fund if interest calculated at the rate per cent. per annum on which the annual payments to the sinking fund are based had 35 been accumulated in the sinking fund.

5.-(1) The Corporation may from time to time appoint and Appointed pay one or more members of the Institute of Chartered Account- auditors. ants or of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors to act as auditor or auditors of the accounts of the Corporation 40 in such manner as the Corporation direct in lieu of the auditors appointed under the Municipal Corporations Acts Any auditor or auditors appointed by the Corporation under the provisions of this article and for the time being holding office is or are in this article referred to as "the appointed auditor."

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(2) If and while the Corporation exercise the powers of sub-division (1) of this article Section 25 (Borough auditors) of

Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6).

A.D. 1926. the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 shall not apply within the City.

Sheffield
Order.

Short title.

(3) Every appointment of an auditor or auditors under this article shall be in writing under the seal of the Corporation and may be for such term and subject to such conditions as the 5 Corporation may think fit.

(4) Subsection (1) of Section 27 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 shall apply and have effect as if the appointed auditor had been referred to therein instead of the borough auditors and in addition the appointed auditor shall be entitled 10 to require from any officer of the Corporation all such papers books accounts vouchers sanctions for loans information and explanations as may be necessary for the performance of his duties.

(5) The appointed auditor shall include in or append to any 15 certificate given by him with reference to the accounts of the Corporation such observations and recommendations (if any) as he may deem necessary or expedient with respect to the accounts and any matter arising thereout or in connection therewith.

6. This Order may be cited as the Sheffield Order 1926.

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SCHEDULE.

(a) For slaughtering (including lairage for not exceeding 48 hours and use of abattoirs and hanging and cooling rooms for not exceeding an additional period of 48 hours).

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For every other animal slaughtered in the Corpora-
tion abattoirs

(b) For lairage for any day or part of a day beyond the period of 48 hours.

Per day.

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Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6).

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this A.D. 1926.
Twenty-first day of April One thousand nine hundred

and twenty-six.

Sheffield
Order.

Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7). [H.L.]

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BILL

INTITULED

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of A.D. 1926. the Minister of Health relating to Cranleigh

District Water Southwold Water and West
Surrey Water.

HEREAS the Minister of Health has made the

W Provisional Orders set forth in the schedule

Works Vict. c. 70.

hereto under the provisions of the Gas and Water Works 33 & 34 Facilities Act 1870 and the Gas and Water 5 Facilities Act 1870 Amendment Act 1873:

And whereas it is requisite that the said Orders should be confirmed by Parliament :

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords. 10 Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:

36 & 37 Vict. c. 89.

1. The Orders as amended and set out in the schedule Orders in hereto shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and schedule 15 all the provisions thereof shall have full validity and force. confirmed.

2. This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Health Short title. Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) Act 1926.