Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 : 60 & 61 Vict. Ch. 38.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1897]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 : 60 & 61 Vict. Ch. 38. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Confirmation of byelaws. A.D. 1897. byelaws imposing any penalty shall be so framed as to allow of the recovery of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty. Nothing in the provisions of any Act incorporated herewith shall authorise the imposition or recovery under any byelaws made in pursuance of such provisions of any greater penalty than the penalties in tliis section specified. 185. Byelaws made by a local authority under this Act shall not take effect unless and until they have been submitted to and confirmed by the Board, who are hereby empowered to allow, modify, or disallow the same, as they may think proper; nor shall any such byelaws be confirmed— Unless notice of intention to apply for confirmation of the same has been given in one or more of the local newspapers circu- lated within, or by handbills posted throughout, the district to which such byelaws relate, one month at least before the making of such application; and Unless for one month at least before any such application is considered a copy of the proposed byelaws has been kept at the office of the local authority, and in the case of districts other than burghs at the office of the parish council of every parish to which such byelaws relate, and has been open during office hours thereat to the inspection of the ratepayers of the district to which such byelaws relate, without fee or reward. Any persons aggrieved by any proposed byelaw, or by any proposed alteration of a byelaw, may within such last-mentioned month, forv\ard notice of his objection to the Board, who shall consider the same before granting confirmation. The clerk of the local authority shall, on the application of any such ratepayer, furnish him with a copy of such proposed byelaws or any part thereof, on payment of sixpence for every hundred words contained in such copy. A byelaw when confirmed by the Board shall not require confirmatioj), allowance, or approval by any other authority. Byelaws to be 186. AH byelaws made by a local authority under this Act printed, &c. shall be printed and hung up in the office of such authority, and be open to the inspection of any ratepayer of the district at all reasonable hours; and a coipy thereof shall be delivered to any ratepayer of the district to which such byelaws relate, on his application for the same ; a copy of any byelaws made by a district committee shall also be transmitted to the parish council of every parish to which such byelaws relate, to be deposited with the public documents of the parish, and to be open to the inspection of any ratepayer of the parish at all reasonable hours, and a copy thereof shall be delivered to any ratepayer of the parish on his application for the same. Evidence of 187. A copy of any byelaws made under this Act by a local byelaws. authority, signed and certified by the clerk of such authority to be a true copy and to have been duly confirmed, shall be evidence until the contrary-is proved in all legal proceedings of the due making, confirmation, and existence of such byelaws without further or other proof