Amendment of 51 & 52 Vict. c. 44. s. 11 as to determina tion of differences. Validation of past orders. Short title. of Differences) Act, 1896. CHAPTER 9. An Act to amend certain Provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888, with respect to the Determination of Differences by the Local Government Board. [21st May 1896.] 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: 1. The Local Government Act, 1888, shall have effect, as if in sub-sections three and four of section eleven of that Act for the words "be determined by arbitration of the Local Government Beard," and in sub-section nine of the same section for the words "be referred to the arbitration of the Local Government Board,” were substituted the words "be determined by the Local Government Board either as arbitrators or otherwise at the option of the Board," and as if in section sixty-three of that Act for the words "are required in pursuance of this Act to decide," were inserted the words "determine as arbitrators." 2. An order of the Local Government Board made before the passing of this Act and purporting to have been made for the determination of any matter under section eleven of the Local Government Act, 1888, shall not be invalid by reason only of the Board having determined the matter as arbitrators or otherwise, instead of appointing an arbitrator to determine it. 3. This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Determination of Differences) Act, 1896. CHAPTER 10. Local Government Board to fix qualification. Repeal of part of An Act to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of BE [2nd July 1896.] E 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: 1. From and after the passing of this Act the Local Government Board for Ireland shall have power to fix the rating qualification of members of dispensary committees in Ireland. 2. Section seven of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1851, is hereby 1415 Vict. repealed in so far as it relates to the rating qualification of members of dispensary committees. c. 68. s. 7. Short title. 3. This Act may be cited as the Dispensary Committees (Ireland) Act, 1896. (Ireland) Act, 1896. CHAPTER 11. An Act to remove certain Doubts with respect to the E 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: 1. (1.) It is hereby declared that where the town commissioners Declaration as of any town in Ireland, not being an urban sanitary district, have 53 & 54 Vict. to meaning of adopted Part Three of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, c. 70. s. 99. 1890, they shall have the same powers under Part Three of that Act of acquiring land and otherwise as any other local authority, and the said Part Three and the sections of the Public Health 41 & 42 Vict. (Ireland) Act, 1878, applied for the purpose of that Part, shall apply accordingly as if such town commissioners were a sanitary authority; and if such town commissioners are not already a body corporate, they shall, for the purpose of holding such land, and of suing and being sued in respect thereof, be nevertheless deemed a body corporate with perpetual succession. c. 52. (2.) Any instrument relating to such land shall be duly executed by such town commissioners if executed in manner provided by section fifty-nine of the Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847, with 10 & 11 Vict. respect to conveyances by commissioners who are not a body c. 16. corporate. 2. It is hereby declared that the forms in the Fourth Schedule Forms. to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, may be altered in Ireland so as to be in conformity with the forms ordinarily used in Ireland under the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and need 14 & 15 Vict. not be under seal. c. 93. construction. 3. This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes Short title and (Ireland) Act, 1896, and shall be construed as one with the Housing 53 & 54 Vict. of the Working Classes Acts, 1890, 1893, and 1894, and those Acts c. 70. and this Act may be cited collectively as the Housing of the Working 56 & 57 Vict. Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1896. c. 33. CHAPTER 12. An Act for the better reporting of Floating Derelicts. BE [2nd July 1896.] E 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: 1. This Act may be cited as the Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, Short title. 1896. Notice of derelict vessels to be given by masters to Lloyd's agents. Letters to be sent to Lloyd's in default of agents. Information 2. Every master or other person for the time being in command of any British ship, after the passing of this Act, who shall become aware of the existence on the high seas of any floating derelict vessel, shall notify the same to the Lloyd's agent at his next place of call or arrival, and shall, together with such notification, furnish to the Lloyd's agent all such information as he may possess as to the supposed locality or identity of such derelict vessel, and the date when and place where the same may have been observed by or reported to him, and the Lloyd's agent shall forthwith on receipt of such notification and information transmit the same to the secretary of Lloyd's in London. And if any such master fails to make such a report he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 3. If there shall be no Lloyd's agent at the next place of call or arrival, then and in such case the notification shall be made and the information furnished by such master or other person as aforesaid, to the secretary of Lloyd's, London. 4. Any information received by the society of Lloyd's as aforeto be published said, in pursuance of this Act, shall be published by the society by Lloyd's. forthwith in the same manner and to the same extent as its reports of shipping casualties, and the society shall also forthwith communicate such information to the Board of Trade. Extension of term for repayment of loans. CHAPTER 13. An Act to extend the Time for the Repayment of Loans Be it by tend consent of the Lords Spiritual and E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 1. When the income of a benefice, since the date of the mortgage thereof to Queen Anne's Bounty, has become diminished in amount, the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty may, by resolution passed by them at a Board meeting, before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, at their discretion, with the previous consent of the patron, extend the term fixed for the repayment of any money lent by them to or for the incumbent of any such benefice, under the powers of one or more of the Acts enumerated in the schedule hereto, that is to say By extending such term for any period not exceeding twenty years, so that by such extension the amount of the annual instalments payable in respect of the loan shall be reduced as from the day of the annual payment due next before the date of the resolution to be passed in respect of such benefice; and such extension may be granted notwithstanding the original term may have been before extended, and in the case of any Extension Act, 1856. extension of the time for the payment of instalments the term The date of any such resolution, the term of extension, and the altered rate of payments, shall be endorsed on the respective mortgage deeds, free of charge to the incumbent. invalidate 2. The application of the provisions of this Act shall not, in any Act not to way, invalidate the instruments of security under which loans have instruments been granted by Queen Anne's Bounty; the said provisions shall of security. extend and apply to such instruments as if originally fully and expressly inserted therein. 3. This Act may be cited as the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Short title. Extension Act, 1896. SCHEDULE. 17 Geo. III., c. 53. ; 21 Geɔ. III., c. 66. ; 7 Geo. IV., c. 66.; 1 & 2 Vict., c. 23.; 1 & 2 Vict., c. 106. ; 28 & 29 Vict., c. 69.; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 43. ; 35 & 36 Vict., c. 96. ; 44 & 45 Vict., c. 25. ; 49 & 50 Vict., c. 34.; 50 & 51 Vict., c. 8. CHAPTER 14. An Act to facilitate the Citation of sundry Acts of BE E 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: 1. Each of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act Citation of may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by Acts in First the short title therein mentioned in that behalf. Schedule. titles. 2.-(1.) Each of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Collective Schedule to this Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the collective title therein mentioned in that behalf. (2.) If it is provided that any Act passed after this Act may, as to the whole or any part thereof, be cited with any of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, or with any group of Acts to which a collective title has been given by any Act passed before this Act, that group shall be construed as including that Act or part, and, if the collective title of the group states the first and last years of the group, the year in which that Act is passed shall be substituted for the last year of the group, and so on as often as a subsequent Act or part is added to the group. C Effect of repeal 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10. Short title. 3. Notwithstanding the repeal of an enactment giving a short title to an Act, the Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, continue to be cited by that short title. 4. The Short Titles Act, 1892, is hereby repealed. 5. This Act may be cited as the Short Titles Act, 1896. FIRST SCHEDULE. Session and Chapter. Title. 25 Edw. 3. Stat. 5. c. 2. Declaration what Offences shall be adjudged Treason. An Acte con nyng uses and wylles An Act for punysshement of Pyrotes An Act against buyinge and sel- An Acte for the Releife of the An Acte for lymytacon of Accons An Acte for punishing of divers An Acte for the better Releife of The Poor Relief Act, An Act for the increase and preser- 1662. The Dean Forest Act, 1667. An Act for the better settling of The Statute of Distriintestates' estates. An Act for prevention of Frauds An Act for the better Observation An Act for the better secureing the bution. The Statute of Frauds. The Sunday Observance Act, 1677. The Habeas Corpus |