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Validation

toes by guar

dians and repayment

of price by purchasers.

(2) If at any time the Board of Works certify that any sum is payable to them by the guardians of any union on account of any loan or interest as aforesaid, the Local Government Board shall, by order under their seal, assess that sum on the union and send copies of the order to the guardians and the treasurer of the union; and within one month of the receipt of the copy of the order the treasurer of the union shall, out of any money then in his hands to the credit of the guardians, or, if such money is insufficient, then out of all moneys subsequently received by him on account of the guardians, pay the amount specified in the order to the Board of Works.

2.-(1) Where at any time between the first of supply of of December nineteen hundred and four and seed potathe first of September nineteen hundred and five the guardians of any union have, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, provided a supply of seed potatoes for the use of any district electoral division of their union, and have sold any such potatoes to any occupier or cultivator of land in that electoral division, the sale shall be deemed to have been legally made, and any sum due to the guardians on account thereof shall be paid by two equal instalments, and the guardians shall certify the amount of each instalment to the council of the county comprising the electoral division affected.

(2) For obtaining payment of each instalment duc from any person the county council or urban district council, as the case may be, shall levy the amount, where the person is rated to the poor rate, by a special rate to be added to the poor rate assessed on the tenements occupied by him and to be collected therewith.

(3) Where any such person is not rated to the poor rate, the county council or urban district council shall make a special rate for the purposes of this Act to which he shall be rated.

(4) Every such last-mentioned special rate shall be recoverable in the same manner and with the same remedies by the collectors of the poor rate as if it were poor rate, and shall be paid by the county council or urban district, council to the guardians.

(5) Where the poor rate is collected in two moieties the special rate required for the purposes of this Act shall be collected with the first moiety of the poor rate.

(6) The first of the special rates required for the purposes of this Act shall be made at the

same time as the first ordinary poor rate made A.D. 1906. during the year nineteen hundred and six, and the second of those rates shall be made at the same time as the first ordinary poor rate made during the year nineteen hundred and seven : Provided that where the first ordinary poor rate made during the year nineteen hundred and six was made before the passing of this Act and the first special rate was not made therewith, then the amount of the instalment payable by any purchaser which would have been leviable by that rate shall be added to the amount of the second instalment payable by him, and the total amount of both instalments shall be levied by the special rate made at the same time as the first ordinary poor rate made during the year nineteen hundred and seven.

(7) The first instalment payable by each purchaser of seed potatoes shall be due on the day on which the first of such special rates is made, and the second instalment shall be due on the day on which the second of such special rates is made. Any such instalment may be paid to the guardians at any earlier date.

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An Act to extend certain provisions of
the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts
to Money Orders transmitted to and
from Foreign States and British Pro-
tectorates.
[29th May 1906.]

BE it enacted by the King'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 provisions of section four of the Post 46 & 47 Vict. Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883, shall extend to any case where an arrangement is made

Extension of

c. 58. s. 4, to foreign

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with the government, or with any person on states and British probehalf, of a foreign state or British protec- tectorates. torate for the transmission of small sums through the post offices of the United Kingdom and the foreign state or British protectorate by means of money orders of a like character to those issued under the Post Office (Money 43 & 44 Vict. Orders) Act, 1880, as amended by any sub. c. 33. sequent enactment.

2. This Act may be cited as the Post Office Short title. (Money Orders) Act, 1906, and may be cited with the Post Office Acts, 1837 to 1904, and may also be cited, and shall be construed as one, with the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 to 1904.

Forgery of

service or

certificate

or any certificate purporting to be a certificate discharge of service or discharge of a seaman or soldier, and personor utters any such certificate knowing it to be ation. forged, or obtains or seeks to obtain any employment or other advantage by means of any forged or counterfeit certificate of service or discharge, or personates the holder of a certificate of service or discharge, he shall on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts be liable in the case of a first offence to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months.

for enlistment.

Penalty on 2. If any inan when entering or enlisting using or giving false or offering himself for entry or enlistment in statements His Majesty's naval, military, or marine forces makes use of any forged or counterfeit statement as to his character or previous employment, or any statement as to his character or previous employment which to his knowledge is false in any material particular, he shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds; and if any person makes a written statement as to the character or previous employment of any man which he

knows to be false in any material particular, A.D.1906. and which he allows or intends to be used for the purpose of the entry or enlistment of that man into His Majesty's naval, military, or marine forces, he shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to the like fine.

3. In section sixteen of the Naval Enlistment Extension of 16 & 17 Act, 1853 (which imposes a penalty on persons Vict. c. 69. who make or give a false statement upon s. 16 to naval entering or offering themselves to enter the reserves. naval service of His Majesty), the expression "naval service" shall include service in any of the naval reserve forces.

4. This Act may be cited as the Seamen's Short title. and Soldiers' False Characters Act, 1906.

An Act to facilitate the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed to hold an Inquiry respecting the Duties of the Metropolitan Police in dealing with cases of Drunkenness, Disorder, and Solicitation in the Streets.

[22nd June 1906.]

WHEREAS a Commission has been issued by His Majesty whereby the Right Honourable Alfred Lyttelton, K.C., Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, Esquire, M.P., Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Esquire, K.C., M.P., David Brynmor Jones, Esquire, K.C., M.P., and Charles Algernon Whitmore, Esquire (herein-after referred to as "the Commissioners "), have been authorised and directed to inquire into and report upon the duties of the Metropolitan Police in dealing with cases of drunkenness, disorder, and solicitation in the streets, and the manner in which those duties are discharged, with power to make recommendations thereon:

And whereas it is desirable to make provision for the more effective conduct by the Commissioners of any inquiry which they may be authorised to make:

A.D. 1906. tion of the amount of pension or gratuity awarded under the Police Act, 1890, and the 56 Vict. c. 10. Police Act, 1893, and no rateable deductions shall be made from such extra pay under section fifteen of the Police Act, 1890.

Reckoning of discontinuous service as approved service for pension.

Reckoning

service in different forces.

2. (1) Where a constable, who has retired without a pension from a police force to which the Police Act, 1890, applies, subsequently rejoins that force after the passing of this Act, or has so rejoined the force before that date, the police authority shall allow him to reckon in his approved service the period of the approved service which he was entitled to reckon at the end of his previous service, if the constable repays to the police authority the amount of any gratuity which may have been granted to him, or of any rateable deductions from his pay which may have been paid to him, by the police authority in respect of his previous service.

(2) The repayment shall be effected by means of deductions from pay or otherwise as the police authority may determine, and all sums so repaid shall be carried to the pension fund.

3.-(1) Where a constable, who has retired of approved without a pension from a police force to which the Police Act, 1890, applies, subsequently joins some other such police force after the passing of this Act or has so joined such other force before that date, the police authority of that other force may, if they think fit, allow him to reckon in his approved service the period of approved service, not being less than three completed years, which he was entitled to reckon at the end of his service in the first-mentioned force if the constable pays to the police authority of that other force the amount of any gratuity which may have been granted to him or of any rateable deduction from his pay which may have been paid to him in respect of his service in the first-mentioned force; but nothing in this provision shall affect a constable's rights under subsection four of section four of the Police Act, 1890; and subsection two of section fifteen of that Act shall not apply.

Approved service in case of Naval and Army Reservists.

(2) The payments by the constable shall be effected by means of deductions from pay, or otherwise as the police authority may determine, and all sums so paid shall be carried to the pension fund.

4. (1) Where a constable of a police force to which the Police Act, 1890, applies has, in pursuance of a Royal proclamation, been called into actual service as a member of any Royal Naval Reserve force, or been called out for permanent service as a member of the Army Reserve, his period of service under

that proclamation may, if the police authority A.D. 1906. think fit, be reckoned in the computation of approved service.

(2) Subsection (5) of section four of the Police Act, 1890 (which relates to the computation of approved service of constables who belong to the Army Reserve), shall extend to constables who belong to any Royal Naval Reserve force, with the substitution of “required for training or called into actual "service for "called out for training or 6. for permanent service."

(3) The Police Reservists Act, 1902, is, as 2 Edw. 7. respects England, hereby repealed.

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"(e) if the grantee supplies to any person or publishes in a manner which the police authority consider to be discreditable or improper any information of a confidential nature which he may have obtained in the course of his employment in the police; or

"(ƒ) if the grantee solicits, or, without the consent of the police authority, accepts directly or indirectly any testimonial or gift of a pecuniary value on his retirement from the police; or

"(g) if the grantee enters into or continues in any business occupation or employment as a private detective, after being prohibited to do so by the police authority on any reasonable grounds: Provided that the decision of a police authority other than the Secretary of State as to forfeiture on any of the grounds aforesaid shall be subject to confirmation by the Secretary of State, but such confirmation shall not affect the right of appeal to quarter sessions conferred by section eleven of the Police Act, 1890."

forfeiture of

6.-(1) In a police force to which the Police Age of compulsory reAct, 1890, applies, retirement shall be com- tirement. pulsory for every constable above the rank of inspector on his attaining sixty-five years of age, except that in special cases the police authority may extend any such constable's service for a further period, in no case exceeding five years, on being satisfied that the constable's retirement at sixty-five would be detrimental to the interests of the police force; but nothing in this section shall be construed as in anywise affecting the retirement of a constable holding a rank above that of inspector before the passing of this Act.