Short title. salary payable in pursuance of any enactment hereby repealed, or any proportionate part of such salary due up to the passing of this Act, shall be payable as if the same were payable in pursuance of this Act. 3. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Magistrates Act, 1875. Determination CHAPTER 4. An Act to amend the Superannuation Act, 1859, so WHEREAS it is expedient to authorise the grant of special rates of pension to persons who have served in an esta blished capacity in the permanent civil service of the State, where such persons have served in an unhealthy place: Be it therefore 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. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury of places to be from time to time by any order or warrant to declare that any country or place therein named shall be deemed to be an un deemed un healthy. healthy place, and the same shall thereupon be deemed, for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1859, and this Act, to be an unhealthy place. Section thirteen of the Superannuation Act, 1859, relating to the laying of orders and warrants before Parliament, shall apply to every order and warrant made under this section. 2. When a person who has served in an established capacity Special rate in the permanent civil service of the State is entitled to any person who of pension to superannuation, compensation, gratuity, or other allowance has served in under the provisions of the Superannuation Act, 1859, two unhealthy years service by him in an unhealthy place shall, in calculating place. the amount of such superannuation, compensation, gratuity, or other allowance, be reckoned as service for three years; and service in an unhealthy place for any greater or less period than two years shall be reckoned in the like proportion: But nothing in this Act contained shall alter or affect the second section of the Superannuation Act, 1859, so far as it requires a service of ten years before a person becomes entitled to any annual superannuation allowance. 3. This Act shall commence on the seventeenth day of CommenceFebruary one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and ment of Act. apply to persons who have retired from the public service since that day. 4. This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act, 1875, Construction and shall be construed as one with the Superannuation Act, and short title. 1859, and together with that Act may be cited as the Superannuation Acts, 1859 and 1875. CHAPTER 5. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Registry of 19th March 1875.] WHEREAS by an Act of the session of the second and third years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter eighty-seven, intituled “An Act to regulate the Office 2 & 3 W. 4. for Registering Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills in Ireland,” c. 87. the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, are authorised to regulate the Register Office therein mentioned, and to make regulations, orders, and directions respecting such office, and the persons employed therein, and the fees and moneys received therein; and by section. thirty-five of the said Act it is among other things enacted as follows: "Provided always, that every regulation, order, or direction so made or given by the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners aforesaid under this Act shall be forthwith laid Amendment of recited Act. "before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament shall then "be sitting, and if Parliament shall not then be sitting, in "that case within fourteen days after the next meeting of "Parliament, and that the same shall not be carried into effect "or become and be binding and conclusive until after the end "of the session in which the same shall be so laid before both "Houses of Parliament:" And whereas it is expedient to repeal the latter portion of the said provisions which limits the time at which the regulation, order, or direction is to take effect: Be it therefore 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. So much of section thirty-five of the above-recited Act as enacts that any regulation, order, or direction therein mentioned shall not be carried into effect, or become and be binding and conclusive, until after the end of the session in which the same is laid before both Houses of Parliament, is hereby repealed: Provided that no regulation, order, or direction mentioned in section thirty-five of the above-recited Act shall be in force until the same shall have been laid forty days before both Houses of Parliament while in session, and if either House within that period resolve that the whole or any part of such regulation, order, or direction ought not to be in force, the same shall not have any force, without prejudice nevertheless to the making any other regulation, order, or direction in its place. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 93. CHAPTER 6. An Act to extend the Time for the Epping Forest HEREAS by the Epping Forest Act, 1871, it was enacted that the Commissioners thereby appointed should within two years from their appointment make a final report to Her Majesty on the matter referred to them, and that such report should be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament should then be sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament: And whereas additional powers were conferred upon the 35 & 36 Vict. said Commissioners by the Epping Forest Amendment Act, 1872, which was incorporated with the said Act of 1871: c. 95. And whereas by the Epping Forest Act, 1873, it was 36 Vict. c. 5. enacted that it should be lawful for the Commissioners to make the said report at any time within two years from the passing of the said Act, and that such report should be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament should be then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient to amend the powers of the said Acts and further to extend the time for making the said final report and the time when such report shall be presented to both Houses of Parliament: 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 assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: exercise of tended. 1. In case the said Commissioners shall be unable to make Time for their final report to Her Majesty within the period limited making final by the Epping Forest Act, 1873, it shall be lawful for the report and for said Commissioners to make the said report at any time Commissioners within one year from the passing of this Act, and all the power expowers conferred on the said Commissioners and on the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings respectively by the said recited Acts shall be and the same are hereby extended until the Commissioners shall make the said final report to Her Majesty within the period hereinbefore mentioned. for new inclo 2. Any person who shall in contravention of any order Penalty not made by the Commissioners under the fifth section of the exceeding 201. Epping Forest Amendment Act, 1872, make any inclosure of sure or waste any land within the said Forest not inclosed before the in breach of passing of the Epping Forest Act, 1871, or wilfully or ma- Commissioners liciously commit any waste, injury, or destruction of vert herbage, trees, shrubs, or other growing things in or upon any land within the said Forest to which the order relates, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds to be recovered upon summary conviction. orders. Parliament. 3. The said final report shall be laid before both Houses Final report to of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, be laid before if Parliament be then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament. 4. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Epping Short title. Forest Act, 1875." to consist of CHAPTER 7. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their Quarters. [22d April 1875.] WHEREAS the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law: And whereas it is adjudged necessary by Her Majesty and this present Parliament that a body of forces should be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence Number of men of the possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-one men, including those to be employed at the depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within Her Majesty's Indian possessions: 129,281, including those employed at depôts in United Kingdom, but exclusive of those actually serving in India. Articles of War made by Her Majesty to be And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law, or in any other manner than by judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that soldiers who shall mutiny or stir up sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's service, or be guilty of crimes and offences to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow : Be it therefore 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. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to make Articles of War for the better government of Her Majesty's army, which articles judicially taken shall be judicially taken notice of by all judges and in all notice of, and courts whatsoever; and copies of the same, printed by the copies printed Queen's printer, shall, as soon as may be after the same shall by the Queen's printer to be have been made and established by Her Majesty, be transtransmitted to mitted by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the War Departjudges, &c. ment to the judges of Her Majesty's superior courts at Westminster, Dublin, and Edinburgh respectively, and also to the governors of Her Majesty's dominions abroad: Provided that no person within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or within the British Isles, shall by such Articles of War be subject to suffer any punishment extending to life or |