An Act for confirming certain Provi sional Orders made by the Board of Act (1862) Amendment. A BILL ΤΟ Amend the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) W Act, 1862. HEREAS it is expedient to amend in certain respects the Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 5 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 10 A.D. 1877. 25 & 26 Vict. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The General Police Title and and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, Amendment Act, 1877," extent of and shall apply to Scotland only. Act. 2. The recited Act and "The General Police and Improvement Construction (Scotland) Act, 1862, Amendment Act," and this Act, shall be read of Act. and construed together. 3. "Court of Session" and "Court" shall mean either Division Interpretaof the Inner House of the Court of Session or the Lord Ordinary tion clause. 15 officiating on the bills in the time of vacation. Session may 4. Wherever in any burgh, the boundaries of which have been Court of determined in terms of the recited Act, it has, either before or after make orders the passing of this Act, from a failure to observe any of the pro- to facilitate visions of the recited Act, or from any other cause, become impossible adoption or 20 to proceed with the adoption or execution of the said Act within recited Act. such burgh, the following provisions shall have effect: 1. It shall be lawful for any seven householders within the burgh to present a petition to the Court of Session, setting forth the failure which has taken place to observe the provisions of the 25 recited Act, or other cause which has made it impossible to proceed with its adoption or execution, and praying the Court to pronounce an order in terms of this Act as herein-after mentioned. execution of A.D. 1877. Act (1862) Amendment. 2. The petition shall be intimated in the Edinburgh Gazette, and in such other manner as the Court shall appoint. 3. Upon resuming consideration of the petition, with or without answers, and after receiving such evidence as they shall require, the Court may pronounce any order which in their judgment will 5 enable the proceedings for the adoption or execution of the recited Act within such burgh to be continued as nearly as possible as if the said failure to observe the provisions of the said Act, or other cause, had not taken place; and such order shall be final, and shall be recorded in the Sheriff Court books of the county within which 10 such burgh is situate. 4. As soon as any directions contained in the said order of the Court shall have been complied with, the proceedings for the adoption or execution of the recited Act within such burgh may proceed as nearly as possible in the same manner and with the 15 same incidents as if the said failure to observe the provisions of the said Act, or other cause, had not taken place. 5. The Court may pronounce any order as to expenses of the petition and the proceedings following thereon, and as to the persons or assessments against which they shall be chargeable; and 20 such order shall be final. |