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penalty not exceeding ten shillings, and for every subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.

16. Every person carrying on the business of such chimney sweeper as aforesaid shall, when required by any person for whom he acts or offers to act as a chimney sweeper, or by any justice, or constable or peace officer, give his name and address.

If any such person fails so to do, or gives a false name or false address, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall, on conviction thereof in a court of summary jurisdiction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings.

17. Where such person carries on the business of a chimney sweeper as aforesaid, he shall, on demand, produce and show his certificate (if any) to any person for whom he acts or offers to act as a chimney sweeper, and to any justice, or constable or peace officer, and allow it to be read and copied by the person to whom it is produced.

If he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall, on conviction thereof in a court of summary jurisdiction, be liable for the first offence to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings, and for every subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.

18. It shall not be lawful for a person having a certificate to lend or transfer it to another.

It shall not be lawful for any person to borrow, accept, or use a certificate issued to another.

If any person acts in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall for every such offence, on conviction thereof in a court of summary jurisdiction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.

19. If any person does any of the following things he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act:

(1.) If he makes, or procures to be made, or aids in making, a false statement or representation, knowing it to be false, in any application for a certificate :

(2.) If he fabricates, or counterfeits, or alters, or procures to be fabricated, or counterfeited, or altered, or aids in fabricating, or counterfeiting, or altering a certificate :

(3.) If he carries, produces, or shows, a fabricated, or counterfeited, or altered certificate, knowing it to be such :

and every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof in a court of summary jurisdiction, be liable for the first offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and for every subsequent offence to the like penalty, with or without imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour, or to such imprisonment alone, with or without hard labour.

20. If any person having a certificate is convicted of an offence against the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Acts, 1840 and 1864,

or either of them, the court or justice before whom he is convicted may, if it seems fit, deprive him of his certificate for the residue of the current year; and if any person not having a certificate is convicted of an offence against the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Acts, 1840 and 1864, or either of them, the court or justice before whom he is convicted may, if it thinks fit, in addition to imposing any other penalty which it may be authorised to impose, declare him disqualified to hold any certificate under this Act for any term not exceeding one year; but such deprivation or disqualification shall be suspended pending any appeal under section eleven of the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act, 1840, and shall be in the discretion of the court of appeal in case the conviction is confirmed.

21. The chief officer of police shall enforce and put in execution the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Acts, 1840 and 1864, without prejudice to the right of any other person to institute proceedings thereunder.

Ireland.

22. In Ireland the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being shall have power and authority under this Act in lieu of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

23. Penalties recovered in Ireland shall be applied according to the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, or any Act amending the same.

Savings.

24. A person shall not be exempt from the provisions of any Act relating to idle or disorderly persons, or to rogues or vagabonds, by reason only that he has a certificate under this Act, or assists or accompanies a person having such a certificate.

25. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the operation of any other Act in force in any city, town, or other place, or take away or abridge any power vested in any local authority by any general or local

Act.

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All the police under one chief constable constitute one police force for the purposes of this schedule.

PART II.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACTS.

I.-England.

11 & 12 Vict. c. 43.-An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of Justices of the Peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders.

Any Acts amending the same.

II.-Ireland.

Within the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts relating to the powers and duties of justices for that district or the police of their district.

Elsewhere in Ireland, the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851.
Any Acts amending the same.

PART III.

FORMS.

(A).—Application for Certificate.

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police district; and I

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CHAPTER VI.

ACTS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT IN MINES.

COAL MINES REGULATION ACT.

35 & 36 VICT. c. 76 (1872).

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Regulation of Coal Mines and certain other Mines.

WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation and inspection of coal mines and certain other mines:

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:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Coal Mines Regulation Act,

1872."

2. This Act, except as herein-after provided, shall not come into operation in England and Scotland until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and in Ireland until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, which dates are in this Act respectively referred to as the commencement of this Act.

3. This Act shall apply to mines (a) of coal, mines of stratified ironstone, mines of shale, and mines of fire-clay.

PART I.

Employment of Women (b), Young Persons, and Children.

4. No boy under the age of ten years, and no woman or girl of any

(a) See s. 70; also Home Office Circular of 28th Nov., 1872. As to difference between "mine" and "quarry," Bell v. Wilson, 2 Dr.

& Sm. 395; and on appeal, L. R. 1 Ch. 303; Att.-Gen. of Isle of Man v. Mylechreest, L. R. 4 Ap. 294.

(b) See s. 72. In Factory Act, 41

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