This Act may be cited as the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1881. This Act shall be construed as one with the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Wild Birds Protection III. Short title and construction of Act. | Acts, 1880 and 1881. ACT OF PARLIAMENT ΤΟ Amend the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880.-[57 and 58 Vict. cap. 24.— 20th July 1894.] Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: I. Short title and construction.-This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1894, and shall be construed as one with the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. cap. 35) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act"), except as hereinafter provided. II. Prohibition of taking or destroying eggs.-A Secretary of State may, after the passing of this Act, upon application by the county council of any administrative county by order prohibit (1) The taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs in any year or years, in any place or places within that county; or (2) The taking or destroying the eggs of any specified kind of wild birds within that county or part or parts thereof, as recommended by the said county council and set forth in the said order. (3) The application by the county council shall specify the limits of the place or places, or otherwise, the particular species of wild birds to which it is proposed that any prohibition in the order is to apply, and shall set forth the reasons on account of which the application is made. III. Order as to application of principal Act to other birds.-A Secretary of State may, on the representation of the council of any administrative county, order that the principal Act shall apply within that county or any part or parts thereof to any species of wild bird not included in the schedule of that Act, as if that species of wild bird were included in the schedule of that Act, and on the making of such order that Act shall apply accordingly. IV. Publication of order.-(1.) The council of an administrative county shall in every year give public notice of any order under this Act which is in force in any place within their county during the three weeks preceding the commencement of the period of the year during which the order operates. (2.) Public notice under this section shall be given (a) As regards each place in which an (c) In such other manner as the V. Penalties.--Any person who, after the passing of this Act, shall take or destroy, or incite any other person to take or destroy (a) the eggs of any wild birds within any area specified in the order; or (b) the eggs of any species of wild bird named in the order, shall, on conviction before any two justices of the peace in England, Wales, or Ireland, or before the sheriff in Scotland, forfeit and pay for every egg so taken or destroyed a sum not exceeding one pound. VI. Expenses.-Any expenses incurred by the council of a county under this Act may be defrayed by that council as expenses for general county purposes within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. cap. 41), or, so far as respects Scotland, the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. cap. 50). VII. Application to Scotland and Ireland.-(1.) This Act shall apply to Scotland with the substitution of the Secretary for Scotland for a Secretary of State. ACT OF PARLIAMENT ΤΟ Amend the Wild Birds Protection Acts.-[59 and 60 Vict. cap. 56.— Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: I. Extension of powers under 43 & 44 Vict. cap. 35.-From and after the passing of this Act the powers exerciseable by the Secretary of State on application under section eight of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, shall extend to the making of an order prohibiting, for special reasons mentioned in the application, the taking or killing of particular kinds of wild birds during the whole or any part of that period of the year to which the protection of wild birds under that Act does not extend, or the taking or killing of all wild birds in particular places during the whole or any part of that period. Public II. Publication of orders. notice of any order made under this Act shall be given in the manner required by the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1894, with respect to orders made under that Act. V. Application to Scotland.-This Act shall apply to Scotland with the substitution of the Secretary of Scotland for a Secretary of State. EXTRACTS FROM The Bankruptcy Act, 1883.-[46 and 47 Vict. cap. 52.-25th August 1883.] Disqualifications of Bankrupt.* XXXII. Disqualifications of bankrupt. (1.) Where a debtor is adjudged bankrupt he shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be disqualified for (e) Being appointed or acting as a justice of the peace; (d) Being elected to or holding or exer cising the office of mayor, alderman, or councillor; (e) Being elected to or holding or exercising the office of guardian of the poor, overseer of the poor, member of a sanitary authority, or member of a school board, highway board, burial board, or select vestry. (3.) The disqualifications imposed by *As to the application of $$ 32-34 to Scotland, see 47 & 48 Vict. cap. 16, §§ 5, 6; and as to disqualification under § 32, see 53 & 54 Vict. cap. 71, § 9. this section shall extend to all parts of mayor, alderman, councillor, guardian, the United Kingdom. overseer, or member of a sanitary authority, school board, highway board, burial board, or select vestry, his office shall thereupon become vacant. EXTRACTS FROM The Bankruptcy Frauds and Disabilities (Scotland) Act, 1884.-[47 and 48 Vict. cap. 16.-23rd June 1884.] V. Application to Scotland of § 32 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, in regard to disqualifications of bankrupt. - In the application of section thirty-two of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect: (1.) The expression "adjudged bankrupt" shall include the case of a person whose estate has been sequestrated or with respect to whom a decree of cessio bonorum has been pronounced by a competent court in Scotland. (2.) A person adjudged bankrupt shall be disqualified from being elected to or holding or exercising the office of provost, bailie, treasurer, dean of guild, deaconconvener of trades or councillor, or commissioner or magistrate of police, or being elected to or holding or exercising the office of member of a parochial board or school board, or road trustee, or member of any local authority under any Act for the time being in force (whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act) relating to local government in Scotland. (3.) The disqualifications to which a person adjudged bankrupt is subject under the said section as amended by this Act shall be removed and cease if and when (a) the sequestration of his estate is recalled or reduced, or the decree of cessio bonorum with respect to him if recalled or reduced; or (b) he obtains his discharge from a competent court. VI. Application to Scotland of §§ 33 and 34 of Bankruptcy Act, 1883, in regard to bankrupt's vacating seat in House of Commons or municipal or other offices.Sections thirty-three and thirty-four of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following provisions: (1.) In each of the said sections the expression "adjudged bankrupt" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the immediately preceding section of this Act. (3.) The said section thirty-four shall be deemed to apply to any person whilst holding the office of provost, bailie, treasurer, dean of guild, deacon-convener of trades or councillor, or commissioner or magistrate of police, or member of a parochial board or school board, or road trustee, or member of any local authority under any Act for the time being in force (whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act) relating to local government in Scotland. ACT OF PARLIAMENT ΤΟ Amend the Law of Bankruptcy.*-[53 and 54 Vict. cap. 71.— Amend th. Lau with respect to Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy, and in the winding up of Companies.-[51 and 52 Vict. cap. 62.-24th December 1888.] I. Priority of debts.-(1.) In the distribution of the property of a bankrupt, and in the distribution of the assets of any company being wound up under the Companies Act, 1862, and the Acts amending the same, there shall be paid in priority to all other debts (a) All parochial or other local rates due from the bankrupt or the company at the date of the receiving order or, as the case may be, the commencement of the winding-up, and having become due and payable within twelve months next before that time, and all assessed taxes, land tax, property or income tax assessed on the bankrupt or the company up to the fifth day of April next before the date of the receiving order, or, as the case may be, the commencement of the winding-up, and not exceeding in the whole one year's assessment; (b) All wages or salary of any clerk or servant in respect of services rendered to the bankrupt or the company during four months before the date of the receiving order, or as the case may be, the commencement of the winding up, not exceeding fifty pounds; and (c) All wages of any labourer or workman not exceeding twenty-five pounds, whether payable for time or for piece work, in respect of services rendered to the bankrupt or the company during two months before the date of the receiving order, or, as the case may be, the commencement of the winding-up: Provided that where any labourer in husbandry has entered into a contract for the payment of a portion of his wages in a lump sum at the end of the year of hiring, he shall have priority in respect of the whole of such sum, or a part thereof, as the court may decide to be due under the contract, propor tionate to the time or service up to the date of the receiving order, or, as the case may be, the commencement of the winding-up. (2.) The foregoing debts shall rank equally between themselves and shall be paid in full, unless the property of the bankrupt is, or the assets of the company *This Act applies to England exclusively excepting part here printed. are, insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions between themselves. (3.) Subject to the retention of such sums as may be necessary for the costs of administration or otherwise, the foregoing debts shall be discharged forthwith so far as the property of the debtor, or the assets of the company, as the case may be, is or are sufficient to meet them. (4.) In the event of a landlord or other person distraining or having distrained on any goods or effects of a bankrupt or a company being wound up within three months next before the date of the receiving order or the winding-up order respectively, the debts to which priority is given by this section shall be a first charge on the goods or effects so distrained on, or the proceeds of the sale thereof. Provided, that in respect of any money paid under any such charge the landlord or other person shall have the same rights of priority as the person to whom such payment is made. (5.) This section so far as it relates to the property of a bankrupt, shall have effect as part of section forty of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. (6.) This section shall apply, in the case of a deceased person who dies insolvent, as if he were a bankrupt, and as if the date of his death were substituted for the date of the receiving order. II. Savings.-(1.) Nothing in this Act shall alter the effect of section five of the Act twenty-eight and twenty-nine Vic | toria, chapter eighty-six, "To amend the law of partnership," or shall prejudice the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, or shall affect the priority given to the payment of funeral and testamentary expenses by section one hundred and twenty-five of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. (2.) Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Stannaries Act, 1887. III. Application of Act. -This Act shall apply only in the case of receiving orders and orders for the administration of the estates of deceased debtors according to the law of bankruptcy made and windings up commenced after the commencement of this Act. IV. Extent of Act.-This Act shall not apply to Ireland. V. Commencement of Act.-This Act shall commence and come into operation from and immediately after the last day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. VI. Repeal. The enactments specified in the schedule hereto and hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned. VII. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Act, 1888. [Schedule spent.] EXTRACTS FROM Public Works Loans Act, 1875.-[38 and 39 Vict. cap. 89.-13th August 1875.] IX. Loans for public works. The Loan Commissioners may, if they think it expedient, from time to time, in manner mentioned in this Act, make loans for the purpose of any of the works mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, to any person having power under an Act of Parliament or otherwise to borrow for such purpose. The Loan Commissioners in considering the propriety of granting a loan shall have regard to the sufficiency of the security for its repayment, and, subject to the provisions of any special Act, shall determine whether the work for which the loan is asked would be such a benefit to the public as to justify a loan out of public money, having regard to the amount of money placed at their disposal by Parliament. FIRST SCHEDULE. Works for the purposes of which the Commissioners may lend money. Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities. |