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DIVISION I.

XXVII. To regulate the use of streets, roads, and public places by Hawking.
street hawkers and itinerant traders, with power to

prohibit any such persons during particular hours from
using any streets, roads, or public places :

XXVIII. To regulate the use of any public road or track or way for Bicycle tracks. the use of persons riding on bicycles :

etc.

XXIX. To prevent the keeping or storage of any animal or thing Dangerous animals, dangerous, offensive, or injurious to health within the District or any part thereof specified in the by-law, or within a specified distance of any habitation, or the storage of hay or other inflammable material within a specified distance of any habitation or other building:

Quarrying.

xxx. To regulate and control quarrying and blasting operations: XXXI. To license persons as vendors of milk, and to register Milk licences. premises used as dairies, stores, or shops by such persons

in connection with milk, for the inspection of dairies, Cf. Food and Drugs milk stores, and milk shops, and to regulate the fees Act, 1908, sec. 27. to be taken for such licences and registration and

inspection:

XXXII. To regulate markets and market-places, and the fees and Markets. tolls to be paid thereat, and for the maintenance of good

order therein:

XXXIII. For the inspection of balances, weights, and measures, Weights and and to ensure the use of just balances, weights, and measures.

measures:

XXXIV. To regulate the licensing of weighbridges; and to enforce Weighbridges. the use of avoirdupois weights at weighbridges:

XXXV. To prohibit the sale by weight within the District or any part thereof of coals, wood, hay, bark, straw, and other goods usually sold by the load, unless the weight is first ascertained at a licensed weighbridge; and to compel such weight to be ascertained at a licensed weighbridge within the District:

Sales by weight and use of weighbridge.

Sale of bread.

Nuisances.

XXXVI. To regulate and enforce the sale of bread by weight:
XXXVII. For the prevention and suppression of nuisances:
XXXVIII. To regulate the licensing of nightmen and their laborers, Nightmen.
and to prohibit any person from acting as a nightman
or nightman's laborer unless licensed or appointed by
the Council; to regulate the use of and the numbering
and licensing of nightcarts; and to compel occupiers to
accept the services of nightmen so licensed or appointed,
and to pay for such services the fees fixed by the
Council:

XXXIX. To regulate the removal and disposal of nightsoil, offal, Privies, &c.
dead animals, and refuse, and for the appointment of
proper places for the deposit thereof:

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XL. For

PART XXII.
DIVISION 1.

Public urinals.

Planting of trees.

Treeguards, &c.

Vehicles.

Motor vehicles used for hire.

New.

Cab stands, &c.

Overcrowding of tram cars.

Fencing.

Fences.

Hoardings.
New.

Driving of cattle and sheep.

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XL. For the erection, maintenance, and supervision of public urinals:

XLI. For the planting, preserving, and protection of trees and shrubs in the watertable or on the footway of any street or road:

XLII. For the erection of fences, treeguards, and other shelter and supports for the protection of trees and shrubs growing in any place under the control of the Council: XLIII. For the licensing for use within the District of cabs (which term includes every wheeled vehicle, whatever its form, or however propelled, used, or standing), and carts (which term includes all vans, wagons, drays, carts, or other vehicles for the carrying of goods and merchandise) plying for hire, or kept or let for hire; for licensing and regulating the conduct of the owners, drivers, and conductors of all or any such cabs or carts; and for fixing the fees to be paid for such licences respectively:

XLIV. For the licensing for use within the District of motor
vehicles plying for hire, or kept or let for hire, and
for prohibiting the use thereof within the District
unless so licensed; and for licensing and regulating the
conduct of the drivers of such motor vehicles, and for
prohibiting the driving thereof within the district except
by a person so licensed, and for fixing the fees to
be paid for such licences respectively:

XLV. Appointing stands for carriages, cabs, motor vehicles, and
other vehicles of any description plying for hire:
XLVI. To prevent the overcrowding of tram cars and the carrying
of more passengers than the number licensed to be
carried on any tram car:

XLVII. To regulate the fencing of vacant lands abutting on any
street or road, the footpath or footpaths of which have
been formed or made:

XLVIII. To regulate the erection or construction of fences abutting
on public places, and to prescribe and define the materials
of which the same shall be erected or constructed:
XLIX. Except as regards any District, or part of a District, in
which provisions contained in any Building Act and
dealing with the matters mentioned in this subdivision
apply, to prohibit or regulate the erection of hoardings
and similar erections abutting on or within twelve feet of
any street, road, or public way (with power to charge
fees for permission to erect such hoardings and
erections) and the collection of fees therefor:

L. To regulate and control the driving and depasturing, feed-
ing, and watering of cattle and sheep over the roads in
the District; to prohibit the driving of cattle and sheep
in or along specified roads or streets; and to prohibit

the

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the driving of unyoked cattle or unbroken horses in
or along the roads and streets in the District, or any
specified roads or streets, during specified times of the
day:

PART XXII. DIVISION I.

LI. To regulate, restrict, or prevent the exhibiting of advertise- Advertisements in ments on or near any street, road, or public way:

LII. To prohibit, either wholly or partially, Sunday trading:
LIII. Except as regards any District or part of a District within

or near public
places.
New.

Sunday trading.
Abattoirs, &c.

the Metropolitan Abattoirs Area, under "The Metropoli- No. 957 of 1908.
tan Abattoirs Act, 1908," or within any abattoirs area
proclaimed under "The Abattoirs Act, 1911," to regulate No. 1055 of 1911.
the control, management, and supervision of abattoirs,
and the receiving, inspection, and slaughtering therein of
animals; the removal and destruction of diseased meat;
and the appointment of inspectors for any of such

purposes:

LIV. Except as mentioned in the next preceding subdivision, to Slaughter-houses. regulate, license, and control houses or places for the slaughtering of cattle, and to regulate and control the cattle to be slaughtered thereat, and to prescribe and regulate the fees payable for slaughtering licences and for cattle slaughtered at a licensed slaughter-house:

LV. Except as aforesaid, to prescribe and regulate the nature Buildings for and kind of structure of and the material to be used in slaughter-houses. the construction of any such house or place in respect of which any application for a slaughtering licence as aforesaid may be made, and the drains, receptacles, and other conveniences to be provided in connection with such house or place prior to the granting of any such licence:

LVI. Except as aforesaid, to maintain cleanliness in, at, and Cleanliness of about every slaughter-house and place used for slaughter- slaughter-houses. ing cattle:

LVII. Except as aforesaid, for the regulation of cattle kept at Cattle at slaughterany slaughter-house or place used for slaughtering cattle houses.

on behalf of the owners of such cattle prior to their
being slaughtered, or without being slaughtered, and

the fees to be taken therefor:

LVIII. Except as aforesaid, for establishing slaughter-houses by Council slaughterthe Council and to regulate and control the same and houses.

the kind of cattle to be slaughtered thereat, and to
license suitable persons to slaughter thereat, and to
prescribe and regulate the fees payable for such licences,
and for cattle to be slaughtered at any such slaughter-
house:

LIX. Except as aforesaid, to prevent the slaughtering for trade Prevention of
purposes of cattle of all or any kinds except at slaughter- slaughtering.
houses established or licensed by the Council:

PART XXII. DIVISION I. Infected cattle.

Unwholesome meat.

False representation.

Arrests.

Duties and liabilities.

Other matters to be prescribed.

Generally.

Penalties.

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LX. To enforce the destruction of infected cattle which, if
slaughtered, would be unfit for human food:

LXI. To enforce the destruction of unwholesome meat:
LXI. For the punishment of persons falsely representing them-
selves to be officers of or appointed by the Council:

LXIII. To authorise officers, or persons appointed by the Council,
or police constables to arrest or remove persons offend-
ing against any by-law:

LXIV. For the more effectual exercise of the powers and discharge of the duties and liabilities conferred and imposed by this Act on the Council, and whether so conferred or imposed directly or by reference to any other Act, and in particular for the more effectual exercise and discharge of the powers, duties, and liabilities of the Council in respect of the following matters and things:

(a) The compulsory purchase of land:

(b) Manufacturing Districts:

(c) The public health:

(d) The sale of food and drugs:

(e) Weights and measures:

(f) Vermin destruction:

(9) The management of Crown lands:

(h) Drainage:

(i) Streets, roads, and public places:
(j) Impounding:

LXV. For any other purpose in respect of which the Council ist
authorised by this Act to make a by-law:

LXVI. Generally for the good rule and government of the District,
and for the convenience, comfort, and safety of the
inhabitants thereof:

LXVII. To fix the pecuniary penalties for offences against or
breaches of such by-laws, or any of them, and to fix
additional penalties for a repetition or continuance of
any offence:
Provided that, except as hereinafter
mentioned, no penalty for any single offence shall
exceed Ten Pounds, and no penalties for a repetition
or continuance of such offence shall in the aggregate
exceed that amount. As to offences against or breaches
of any by-laws relating to waterworks and drainage
works no penalty for any single offence shall exceed
Fifty Pounds, and no penalties for a repetition or con-
tinuance of such offence shall in the aggregate exceed
that amount.

(2) Nothing

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(2) Nothing contained in "The Motor Vehicles Act, 1907," shall No. 938 of 1907. affect the validity of any by-law made under the power conferred by subdivision XLIV. of subsection (1) hereof.

377. (1) Any by-law made under this Act may be made to apply to the whole or any specified part of the District, and unless otherwise provided or clearly intended shall apply to the whole of the District.

(2) Any by-law made under this Act with respect to streets or sec. 27. roads, may be made to apply either to all streets and roads or to any specified streets and roads or parts of specified streets and roads, and either at all times or during specified times; and unless otherwise provided or clearly intended shall apply to all streets and roads, and to the whole thereof, and at all times.

378. (1) No by-law shall be passed, except at a meeting of the Council, at which at least two-thirds of the members then in office are present.

(2) No by-law shall have any force or effect unless signed by the chairman or clerk.

By-laws to be passed members in office.

by two-thirds of

D.C. Act, 1887, sec. 291 (part).

Governor required.
D.C. Act, 1887, sec.

291 (part).

379. (1) No by-law shall have any force or effect unless confirmed Confirmation by the by the Governor, and afterwards published in the Gazette, and no by-law shall be submitted to the Governor for confirmation until it has lain before each House of Parliament for at least fourteeen sitting days of such House.

(2) Subject to section 380, after one week has elapsed from such publication a by-law shall have the force of law, and shall, until altered or repealed, have effect within the District as if such by-law were contained in this Act.

laws in force in the

380. No by-law shall have any force or effect if repugnant No by-law to be to this or any other Act in force in the State, or if inconsistent with the trusts or purposes for which any land, hereditament, or other property is held by the Council, or with any regulations made by the Governor and for the time being in force.

repugnant to any State or any regulathe Governor.

tions made by

D.C. Act, 1887, sec. 292.

381. (1) All by-laws and regulations made under the Acts hereby Saving of existing byrepealed, or any of them, and which are in force immediately before laws and regulations. the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been made under the powers contained in this Act and shall remain in full force

and effect notwithstanding such repeal, until altered or repealed in

manner provided by section 383.

(2) All by-laws adopted under the provisions of the "By-Laws Act 425 of 1888. Enabling Act, 1888," and which are in force at the commencement

of this Act, shall remain in full force and effect until altered or

repealed in manner aforesaid.

382. (1) A