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Disabled Ex-Service Men.

or in so far as vacancies occur as a result of changes in mencement the staff of the said employers.

of Act. Penalty on employer.

Monthly penalty.

Employer not bound to employ number of disabled men in cer

tain events.

Definition of employer.

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14. An employer who cannot show within two years from the commencement of this Act that he has employed the number of disabled men as laid down by 5 the Minister of Labour, shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.

15. An employer who does not comply after two years with the provisions of this Act shall be liable upon conviction to a further penalty of five pounds per 10 working month per disabled man who should have been employed, provided that action shall not be taken against an employer until a period of one month has elapsed after the number of disabled men employed has fallen below that fixed by the Minister of Labour.

16. An employer shall not be bound to employ the number of disabled men prescribed by the Minister of Labour or be liable to any penalty under this Act if—

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(a) A sufficient number of disabled men are not
unemployed within a reasonable radius of his 20
establishment, or the Ministry of Labour is
unable to obtain from other districts a sufficient
number of disabled men
men to make up the

quota; or

(b) He can prove that such disabled men are not 25 suitable for the purpose of his establishment. 17. In this Act "employer" employer" includes any person or body of persons corporate or unincorporate, all Services of the Crown (other than Naval, Military, or Air Services) and all local authorities.

18. This Act may be cited as the Employment of Disabled Ex-Service Men Act, 1928, and shall come into mencement. operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

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Amend the Law with respect to the exportation A.D. 1928. of horses.

BE it end with the advice and consent of the Lords

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,

Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

of Diseases

1.-(1) The prohibition contained in section one of Amendment the Diseases of Animals Act, 1910, as amended by the of section 1 Exportation of Horses Act, 1914, on shipping or of Animals attempting to ship unfit horses in certain cases shall be Act, 1910. 10 extended so as to include any horse unless certified by a veterinary inspector in accordance with that section to be in the case of a horse (other than an ass) not more than seven years of age and to be of not less value than thirty pounds, and in the case of an ass to be not more 15 than seven years of age and to be of not less value than three pounds, and accordingly subsection (1) of that section as amended by the said Act of 1914 shall have effect as though after the word "suffering" there were inserted the words "and in the case of a horse (other than an ass) to be not more than seven years of age and to be of not less value than thirty pounds, and in the case of an ass to be not more than seven years of age and to be of not less value than three pounds."

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Amendment of

sections 1 and 3 of

(2) The said section one shall have effect as though
the following subsection
subsection were substituted for sub-
section (2) thereof :-

(2) If any horse examined under this Act is in
the opinion of the veterinary inspector in such 5
a physical condition that it is cruel to keep
it alive or to be permanently incapable of
being worked without suffering the inspector
shall forthwith slaughter it or cause it to be
slaughtered with a mechanically operated in- 10
strument suitable and sufficient for the purpose,
and no compensation shall be made to the
owner of the said animal.

2. The provisions of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1910, as amended by the Exportation of Horses Act, 15 1914, and this Act shall have effect so as to include Diseases of shipment in any vessel from any port in Great Britain to any port outside Great Britain, and accordingly the words "from any port in Great Britain to any port outside Great Britain" shall be substituted for the 20 words "from any port in Great Britain to any port outside the British Isles" in sections one and three of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1910.

Animals
Act, 1910.

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3.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Exportation of Horses Act, 1928, and shall be construed as one with the 25 mencement. Diseases of Animals Act, 1910, and the Exportation of Horses Act, 1914, and the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894

to 1922, and this Act may be cited together as the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1928.

(2) This Act shall come into force on the first day 30 of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.