Form of conviction. Proceedings not to be quashed for known to such officer or agent, and convey him, with all convenient despatch, before some justice, without any warrant or other authority than this or the special Act; and such justice shall proceed with all convenient despatch to the hearing and determining of the complaint against such offender. CLV. The justices before whom any person shall be convicted of any offence against this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, may cause the conviction to be drawn up according to the form in the schedule to this Act annexed. CLVI. No proceeding in pursuance of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, shall be want of form, quashed or vacated for want of form, nor shall the same be removed by certiorari or otherwise into any of the superior courts. &c. Parties allowed to appeal to quarter ses ing security. CLVII. If any party shall feel aggrieved by any determination or adjudication of any justice with respect to any penalty or forfeiture under the provisions of this or sions on giv- the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, such party may appeal to the General Quarter Sessions for the county or place in which the cause of appeal shall have arisen; but no such appeal shall be entertained unless it be made within four months next after the making of such determination or adjudication, nor unless ten days' notice in writing of such appeal, stating the nature and grounds thereof, be given to the party against whom the appeal shall be brought, nor unless the appellant forthwith after such notice enter into recognizances, with two sufficient sureties, before a justice, conditioned duly to prosecute such appeal, and to abide the order of the court thereon. Court to make such order as they think reasonable. CLVIII. At the Quarter Sessions for which such notice shall be given the court shall proceed to hear and determine the appeal in a summary way, or they may, if they think fit, adjourn it to the following sessions; and upon the hearing of such appeal the court may, if they think fit, mitigate any penalty or forfeiture, or they may confirm or quash the adjudication, and order any money paid by the appellant, or levied by distress upon his goods, to be returned to him, and may also order such further satisfaction to be made to the party injured as they may judge reasonable; and they may make such order concerning the costs, both of the adjudication and of the appeal, as they may think reasonable. police district incurred CLIX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That not- Receiver of withstanding anything herein or in the special Act, or metropolitan any Act incorporated therewith, contained, every penalty to receive or forfeiture imposed by this or the special Act, or any penalties Act incorporated therewith, or by any bye-law in pur- within his suance thereof, in respect of any offence which shall district. take place within the metropolitan police district, shall be recovered, enforced, accounted for, and, except where the application thereof is otherwise specially provided for, shall be paid to the receiver of the metropolitan police district, and shall be applied in the same manner as penalties or forfeitures, other than fines upon drunken persons, or upon constables for misconduct, or for assaults upon police constables, are directed to be recovered, enforced, accounted for, paid, and applied by an Act passed in the third year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for regulating the Police 2 & 3 Vict. "Courts in the Metropolis ;" and every order or con- c. 71. viction of any of the police magistrates in respect of any such forfeiture or penalty shall be subject to the like appeal, and upon the same terms, as is provided in respect of any order or conviction of any of the said police magistrates by the said last-mentioned Act; and every magistrate by whom any order or conviction shall have been made shall have the same power of binding over the witnesses who shall have been examined, and such witnesses shall be entitled to the same allowance of expenses as he or they would have had or been entitled to in case the order, conviction, and appeal had been made in pursuance of the provisions of the said lastmentioned Act. evidence CLX. And be it enacted, That every person who, Persons upon any examination upon oath, under the provisions giving false of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated liable to therewith, shall wilfully and corruptly give false evi- penalties of dence, shall be liable to the penalties of wilful and cor- perjury. rupt perjury. CLXI. And be it declared and enacted, That all Money paid sums of money which have been or shall be paid into into the Bank the Bank of Ireland in the name and with the privity of be exempt of Ireland to poundage. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 117. 66 from usher's the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery of Ireland, under the provisions of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to provide for the Custody of certain Moneys paid in pursuance of the Standing Orders of "either House of Parliament by Subscribers to Works or Undertakings to be effected under the Authority of "Parliament," shall and may be paid out and applied under any order of the said Court of Chancery exempt from usher's poundage. Access to Special Act. Copies of special Act to be kept and deposited, and allowed to be inspected. 66 And with respect to the provisions to be made for affording access to the special Act by all parties interested, be it enacted as follows: CLXII. The company shall at all times after the expiration of six months after the passing of the special Act keep in their principal office of business a copy of the special Act, printed by the printers to her Majesty, or some of them; shall also within the space of such six months deposit in the office of each of the clerks of the peace of the several counties into which the works shall extend a copy of such special Act, so printed as aforesaid; and the said clerks of the peace shall receive, and they and the company respectively shall retain, the said copies of the special Act, and shall permit all persons interested to inspect the same, and make extracts or copies therefrom, in the like manner, and upon the like terms, and under the like penalty for default, as is provided in the case of certain plans and sections by an Act passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to compel Clerks of the 1 Vict. c. 83. Peace for Counties, and other Persons, to take the Custody of such Documents as shall be directed to be deposited with them under the Standing Orders of "either House of Parliament." 7 W. 4. & Penalty on company failing to keep or 66 66 CLXIII. If the company shall fail to keep or deposit, as herein before mentioned, any of the said copies of the special Act, they shall forfeit twenty pounds for every deposit such such offence, and also five pounds for every day afterwards during which such copy shall be not so kept or deposited. copies. Act not to extend to Scotland. CLXIV. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to Scotland. CLXV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in present session. session of Parliament. amended this SCHEDULE REFERRED TO BY THE FORE To wit. GOING ACT. Be it remembered, That on the in the year of our Lord day of A. B. is convicted before us, C. D., two of her Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of [here describe the offence generally, and the time and place when and where committed, contrary to the [here name the special Act]. Given under our hands and seals the day and year first above written. COMPANIES CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT. 8 VICT. CAP. XVI. An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts with respect to the Constitution of Companies incorporated for carrying on Undertakings of a Public Nature. [8th May, 1845.] WHEREAS it is expedient to comprise in one general Act sundry provisions relating to the constitution and management of joint stock companies, usually introduced into Acts of Parliament authorizing the execution of undertakings of a public nature by such companies, and that as well for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such undertakings, as for ensuring greater uniformity in the provisions themselves: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 Act to apply assembled, and by the authority of the same, That this Act shall apply to every joint stock company which panies incorporated by shall by any Act which shall hereafter be passed be Acts hereafter incorporated for the purpose of carrying on any underto be passed. taking, and this Act shall be incorporated with such Act; and all the clauses and provisions of this Act, save so far as they shall be expressly varied or excepted by any such Act, shall apply to the company which shall to all Com |