Cap. 181. defective illuminating power in the gas supplied by the 43 & 44 Vict. Company at one testing place on any day shall not be entitled to any further forfeiture in respect of defective illuminating power in the gas supplied by the Company at any other testing place of such controlling authority on the same day. 15. If on any day the gas supplied by the Company Forfeiture at any testing place is of less purity than it ought to be for excess of the Company shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty pounds impurity. for each occasion on which they are so in default. Provided always, that the controlling authority of any testing place having recovered one forfeiture in respect of excess of impurity in the gas supplied by the Company at one testing place on any day shall not be entitled to any further forfeiture in respect of excess of impurity in the gas supplied by the Company at any other testing place of such controlling authority on the same day; and provided also, that the average of the testings made at such testing place on that day and on the preceding and on the following day shall be deemed to represent the purity of such gas on such one day at such testing place. 16. If at any time during any period between mid- Forfeiture night and sunset, or during any period between sunset and for insuffimidnight, the gas supplied by the Company is supplied at a pressure less than it ought to be under the special Act, the Company shall in each case forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. Provided always, that the controlling authority having recovered one forfeiture in respect of insufficiency of pressure in the gas supplied by the Company during any period of twenty-four hours shall not be entitled to any further forfeiture in respect of insufficiency of pressure in the gas supplied by the Company during the same period. pressure 17. No forfeiture shall be incurred in any case with Saving for respect to which it is certified by the chief gas examiner unavoidable that the defect of illuminating power, excess of impurity, accident. or insufficiency of pressure was occasioned by an unavoidable cause or accident. 18. The report of the chief gas examiner on appeal, Evidence of or the report of a gas examiner after the time for appeal liability to has elapsed and no appeal has been brought, showing a forfeiture. case of defective illuminating power, excessive impurity in, or insufficient pressure of the gas supplied by the Company, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of the Company to a forfeiture in respect thereof, and every forfeiture under this Act shall be leviable by distress, and on proof of any such report before a magistrate at any time within one month after the date of the report, such magistrate shall issue his warrant of distress accordingly. 19. Every such forfeiture, and any loss arising from fraud of the servants of the Company which the auditor (appointed as in the special Act provided) shall certify has arisen from want of due diligence on the part of the directors, shall be borne and paid to the satisfaction of such auditor exclusively by and out of the divisible profits of the Company, and by way of reduction of dividend. 20. Every forfeiture imposed by this Act shall be recovered, applied, and appropriated in the manner provided by sections forty-six and fifty-three of the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, and the said sections shall be read and construed as applying to forfeitures and the recovery thereof, and otherwise in relation thereto under this Act, as if such forfeitures were penalties under the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860. 21. From and after the passing of this Act the Acts specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act annexed shall within the limits of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the second column of that Schedule. Provided that this repeal shall not affect (a.) The past operation of any enactment hereby repealed, nor anything done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; (b.) Any right, privilege, obligation, or liability ac- (c.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred 22. All costs, charges, and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing of, obtaining, and passing of this Act shall be paid by the Corporation out of their corporate funds, and by the Metropolitan Board as expenses incurred by them in the execution of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, in such proportions as the Board of Trade may by writing signed by a Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the said Board order and direct.. 44 & 45 Vict., Cap. 37. Short title. Condensation of acid gases in sulphuric acid works. ALKALI, &c. WORKS REGULA- 44 & 45 Vict., Cap. 37. An Act to consolidate the [Introductory words.] PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act, 1881. [2. Commencement of Act. Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1894.] PART I. [3-7. Alkali Works and Alkali Waste.] PART II. Sulphuric Acid Works and other specified Works. 8. Every sulphuric acid work as defined in the schedule to this Act shall be carried on in such manner as to secure the condensation, to the satisfaction of the chief inspector, derived from his own examination or from that of some other inspector, of the acid gases of sulphur and nitrogen which are evolved in the process of the manufacture of sulphuric acid in such work, to such an extent that the total acidity of such gases in each cubic foot of air, smoke, or gases escaping into the chimney or into the atmosphere does not exceed what is equivalent to four grains of sulphuric anhydride. The owner of any sulphuric acid work which is carried on in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, fifty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, one hundred pounds. Best practi9. The owner of any work specified in the schedule cable means to this Act (herein-after referred to as a scheduled work) Cap. 37. shall use the best practicable means for preventing the 44 & 45 Vict., discharge into the atmosphere of all noxious gases and of all offensive gases evolved in such work, or for rendering such gases harmless and inoffensive when discharged, sub- to be used ject to the qualification, in the case of sulphuric acid for preventing discharge of works, that no objection shall be taken under this section noxious and by an inspector to any discharge of gas by a chimney or offensive gases flue, on the basis of the amount of acid gas per cubic foot in scheduled of air smoke or gases, where that amount does not exceed works. the amount limited by the last preceding section. If the owner of any such work fails, in the opinion of the court having cognizance of the matter, to use such means, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, in the case of the first offence, twenty pounds, and in the case of every subsequent offence, fifty pounds, with a further sum not exceeding five pounds for every day during which any such subsequent offence has continued. [10. Provisional Order to prevent discharge of certain gases in salt works.] PART III. (i.) Registration of Works. 11.—(1.) An alkali work or a work to which Part II. of Registration this Act applies shall not *** (a) be carried on of works, and unless it is certified to be registered. (b) stamp duty. (2.) The work shall be registered in a register containing the prescribed particulars, and the register shall be conducted and the certificates issued in the prescribed manner. (3.) The owner of an alkali work or of a work required to be registered shall in the month of January or February in every year apply for a certificate of registration in the prescribed manner, and on such application and compliance with the conditions as to registration the certificate shall be issued, and shall be in force for one year from the first day of April following the said application. (4.) The owner of an alkali work or of a work required to be registered erected after the commencement of this Act shall before commencing any manufacture or process in such work apply for such certificate in the prescribed manner, and on such application and (a) Words omitted repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1894. (b) Application for registration must be made, on the prescribed form, to the Local Government Board, to whom the annual duty of £3, payable in respect of works other than Alkali Works, as provided at the end of sub-section (4) of this section, must be paid. |