Urban police and sanitary legislation, 1904. : Being a collection of provisions contained in the local improvement acts obtained by English urban district councils in the year 1904.

  • England.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Urban police and sanitary legislation, 1904. : Being a collection of provisions contained in the local improvement acts obtained by English urban district councils in the year 1904. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    volume the provisions of Acts obtained by Muni- cipal Corporations and the London County Council having regard to the difference in the constitution of these bodies and in the general law applicable to them. The idea of the book was partly suggested by a paragraph in the special report on the Session s work made by the Police and Sanitary Committee on the 5th August, 1904. The Committee there stated that they had sought to standardise all clauses which dealt with powers relating to police or sanitary regulations ; and that they had no reason to doubt that the Bills , of next Session would be prepared with due regard to the precedents of that Session. I hope the present classification of precedents may serve both as a convenient guide for the use of TJse enc-ased in the practical work of legislatior, and as a record (possibly having some general interest) of the lines on which local legislation is proceeding in various directions. The headings under which the several precedents are arranged differ in many cases, though not in a f f om Ae marginal notes against the sections fn the Acts themlelves. I have, however, put in the earfy part of the book a Table o Acts which shows the wording of the marginal notes of all the ecdons containe^d in the eleven Acts and a so shows by reference to the numbers of the piece deMs which of the sections are dealt with in the book and which are not. At the end of each prece- den the name of the Act in which it is contained fs ind ated by the name of the town to which the Ac es, and the number of the section is also given,