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Land Drainage Provisional Order.

89. Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Acts, 1861 and 1918, amending the Land Drainage (Ouse) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1920.

Land Values Rating.

p. 497

Bill to enable local rating authorities to levy rates upon land values.

Leasehold Enfranchisement.

501

74. Bill to enable leaseholders of houses or premises whose original leases were granted for a period or term of not less than thirty years to acquire compulsorily the freehold estate and such other outstanding interests affecting the property by agreement, or, failing agreement, by arbitration under the Arbitration Act, 1889, or any statutory modification thereof.

Licensing (Amendment).

507

70. Bill to amend the Licensing Acts, 1910 and 1921; and for other purposes relating thereto.

509

Lincolnshire Rivers Fisheries Provisional Order.

130. Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, relating to the Rivers. Witham, Welland, Trent and other waters.

Liquor (Popular Control).

521

165. Bill to amend the Law relating to the manufacture, sale and supply of intoxicating liquor, and to provide for the popular control thereof and of the grant and renewal of licences; and for other purposes incidental thereto. 529

Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions).

55. Bill to extend further the duration of the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, and to amend temporarily the provisions as to the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund.

96. Same [as amended by Standing Committee C].

571

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Provide for the licensing of dog racing courses.

BE

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

A.D. 1928.

1. No building or ground to which the public is Local
admitted, with or without payment, shall be opened or authority to
used for races in which any object propelled by license.
mechanical means is pursued by greyhounds or other

10 dogs, unless a licence has been obtained from the local
authority of the district in which the building or ground
is situate.

2. No building or ground where such racing is Prohibition
carried on shall continue to be used for such purpose of ground
15 after the first day of October one thousand nine hundred &c. unless
and twenty-eight for such racing as aforesaid without
such a licence as provided for in section one being
obtained.

licensed.

3. A licence may be granted by the local authority Conditions
20 subject to such conditions as it may think desirable.

of licence.

4. If any ground or building to which the public is Penalties.
admitted is used for such racing as aforesaid without
a licence, any such use of it shall be deemed to constitute
a nuisance against which an injunction may be obtained,
25 and any person carrying on, or providing the means of
carrying on, or assisting in carrying on, such racing shall

A.D. 1928. be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day on which such racing has been carried on.

Provisions
as to

revocation
of licence.

Definition.

Application.

Short title.

5. When a licence has been granted by a local authority it may be revoked if there has been a breach 5 of granted.

of the conditions on which the licence was

A local authority for the purpose of this Act means: for London, the County Council; for other parts of England and Wales and Scotland, the councils of 10 county boroughs and the councils of non-county boroughs and urban districts having a population of not less than twenty thousand, and the county councils in other areas. 7. This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland.

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and Sir George Hamilton.
Mr. James Henry Thomas, Mr. George Thorne,
Mr. Robert Hudson, Mr. Robert Morrison,
Sir Robert Hamilton, Sir Alfred Hopkinson,
Mr. Fenby, Sir Walter Greaves-Lord,
Mr. Buchan, Mr. Compton, Mr. Dunnico,

Ordered to be brought in by

14 March 1928. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,

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1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast;

120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester;
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H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
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