c. 70. (4.) If any person makes any false or fraudulent statement in any return 54 & 55 VICT. made in pursuance of this section he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (5.) The Board of Agriculture may from time to time vary or add to the list of places in the schedule to this Act. Markets and Fairs (Weigh4. (1.) An auctioneer shall not, unless exempted by order of the Board ing of Cattle) of Agriculture from the requirement of this section, sell cattle at any Act, 1891. mart where cattle are habitually or periodically sold, unless there are provided at that mart similar facilities for weighing cattle as are required Act to auction Application of by the principal Act and this Act in the case of cattle sold at a market or marts. fair to which the principal Act applies. (2.) Every auctioneer who in any place from which returns are required to be made under this Act sells cattle at any such mart as aforesaid shall, unless exempted as aforesaid, make the like returns to the Board of Agriculture with respect to cattle entering, weighed, and sold at that mart as are required by this Act to be made by a market authority, and shall be subject to the like penalty for making any false or fraudulent statement in such return. (3.) If any such auctioneer makes default in complying with the requirements of this section, the auctioneer, or, if he is in the employment of any person, the person by whom he is employed, shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or in case of a continuing offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which the offence continues. (4.) This section shall not come into operation until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. 5. This Act shall, in its application to Ireland, be construed as if for Application to the expression "the Board of Agriculture" were substituted the expres- Ireland. sion"the Irish Land Commission." 6. This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and may Construction be cited as the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act, 1891, and and short title. the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1887 and 1891. STATUTES AND PARTS OF STATUTES PASSED IN THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT OF 1892. Amendment of provision as to annual POLICE RETURNS ACT, 1892. 55 & 56 VICT. CAP. 38. An Act to alter the period for which certain Police Returns are required to be made.-[27th June, 1892.] 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: 1. The annual statement required by section fourteen of the County and Borough Police Act, 1856, shall be made for each calendar year, and police returns shall be transmitted to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State as soon as may be after the termination of that year. -19 & 20 Vict. c. 69. Commencement. Short title. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. 3. This Act may be cited as "The Police Returns Act, 1892." Definition. Persons WITNESSES (PUBLIC INQUIRIES) PROTECTION ACT, 1892. 55 & 56 VICT. CAP. 64. An Act for the better Protection of Witnesses giving Evidence before any Royal Commission or any Committee of either House of Parliament, or on other Public Inquiries.-[28th June, 1892.] 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: 1. In this Act the word "inquiry" shall mean any inquiry held under the authority of any Royal Commission or by any committee of either House of Parliament, or pursuant to any statutory authority, whether the evidence at such inquiry is or is not given on oath, but shall not include any inquiry by any court of justice. 2. Every person who commits any of the following acts, that is to say, obstructing or who threatens, or in any way punishes, damnifies, or injures, or attempts intimidating witnesses to punish, damnify, or injure, any person for having given evidence upon guilty of mis- any inquiry, or on account of the evidence which he has given upon any demeanour. such inquiry, shall, unless such evidence was given in bad faith, be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable upon conviction thereof to a maximum penalty of one hundred pounds, or to a maximum imprisonment of three 55 & 56 Vict. months. 3. A prosecution for any offence under this Act may be heard and determined by a court of summary jurisdiction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, provided that should either the complainant or the party charged object to the case being dealt with summarily, the court shall send such case for trial to the quarter sessions or assize, or in cases arising within the metropolitan area to the Central Criminal Court. c. 64. Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Protection Act, 1892. Prosecution of award costs 4. It shall be lawful for any court before which any person may be offences. convicted of any offence under this Act, if it thinks fit, in addition to Court to have sentence or punishment by way of fine or imprisonment, to condemn such power to person to pay the whole or any part of the costs and expenses incurred in and compenand about the prosecution and conviction for the offence of which he sation to party shall be convicted, and, upon the application of the complainant, and aggrieved. immediately after such conviction, to award to complainant any sum of money which it may think reasonable, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, by way of satisfaction or compensation for any loss of situation, wages, status, or other damnification or injury suffered by the complainant through or by means of the offence of which such person shall be so convicted, provided that where the case is tried before a jury, such jury shall determine what amount, if any, is to be paid by way of satisfaction or compensation. 5. The amount awarded for such satisfaction or compensation, together Costs and with such costs, to be taxed by the proper officer of the court, shall compensation be deemed a judgment debt due to the person entitled to receive the to be a judgsame from the person so convicted, and be recoverable accordingly. ment debt. 6. In the application of this Act to Scotland the following modifica- Application to tions shall have effect: (1.) A court of summary jurisdiction means the sheriff. (3.) Judgment debt means a civil debt, and such debt may be recovered Scotland. 7. Nothing in this Act contained shall in any way lessen or affect Saving. any power or privilege possessed by either House of Parliament, or any power given by statute in the premises. 8. This Act may be cited as The Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Short title. Protection Act, 1892." STATUTES AND PARTS OF STATUTES PASSED IN THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT OF 1893. Constables employed on fire duty to be deemed to be engaged on police duty. Borough police may be POLICE ACT, 1893. 56 VICT. CAP. 10. An Act to amend the Police Acts.-[9th June, 1893.] 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: 1. Where a constable belonging to any police force, in pursuance of any general or special direction of the police authority, acts as a fireman, or assists in the extinguishment of fire, or in protecting life or property from fire, such constable shall be deemed for the purposes of the Police Act, 1890, to be in the execution of his duty. 2. (1.) The council of a borough may by resolution delegate to the watch committee its powers under sections thirty-two and thirty-three employed as of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, or under any similar enactments fire brigade10 & 11 Vict. in any local Act; and where such resolution; has been passed, the watch committee may employ constables wholly or partially as firemen : c. 89. Power to increase pension. Provided that no constable, who at the passing of this Act is not employed to act as fireman shall be employed without his consent. (2.) The pay of constables exclusively so employed, and the allowances of constables partially so employed, shall be defrayed from the fund or rate which is applicable to the purposes of the fire brigade or fire police. (3.) The pensions and gratuities granted to such constables, and the allowances and gratuities granted to their widows and children shall be paid out of the police pension fund; but the council shall pay from the fund or rate applicable to the purposes of the fire brigade or fire police to the police pension fund such contribution as the Secretary of State may, by general or special order, determine to be a fair contribution in respect of such pensions, gratuities, and allowances. 3. (1.) Where a pension is in pursuance of the Police Act, 1890, granted to the constable on the scale applicable to partial disability for earning a livelihood, the police authority may, within three years from the grant of the pension, if satisfied by the evidence of some legally qualified medical practitioner or practitioners selected by the police authority that the disability attributable to the injury received in the execution of duty has become total, increase the pension to the amount allowed by the provisions of the scale applicable to total disability. (2.) This section shall apply in the case of all pensions granted since the commencement of the Police Act, 1890. 4. The provisions of sub-section two of section thirteen of the Police 56 VICT. c. 10. Act, 1890, shall apply to any constable in receipt of a pension who is appointed to any office remunerated out of any parochial, district, or other Police Act, rate. 1893. 5. A police authority, in addition to the powers of investments con- Amendment ferred by section eighteen of the Police Act, 1890, may invest the capital of 53 & 54 Vict. c. 45, of the pension fund in debentures or mortgages issued or made by a s. 13 (2). county council in pursuance of the powers conferred by section sixty-nine Extension of sub-section eight of the Local Government Act, 1888. Amendment powers of 6. In schedule I.(11) (c) of the Police Act, 1890, for the words (" where investment of a constable has, in the course of the three years next before the date of pension fund. his retirement or death been in more than one rank ") shall be substituted of Sch. I.the words ("where a constable at the date of his retirement or death 53 & 54 Vict. holds a rank to which he has been promoted within the three years c. 45. previous.") 7. This Act shall be read as one with the Police Act, 1890, and nothing Construction in this Act shall interfere with or diminish the powers of the Secretary of of Act and saving. State, under section seventeen of that Act. 8. (1.) The words "any mischief by fire and" in section fourteen of Partial repeal the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, are hereby repealed, and this Act shall have effect, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, local or general, to the contrary. of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89, and amendment of local (2.) Where any local Act or order contains provisions as to a fire brigade Acts. or fire police, the Secretary of State may frame and submit to Parliament a provisional order repealing or modifying such provisions so as to bring them into harmony with the provisions of this Act, and he may by such order unite any existing fire brigade pension fund with the police pension fund, and make any other adjustments which may appear to him necessary in order to give effect to this Act. 9. This Act may be cited as "The Police Act, 1893;" and the Police Short title. Acts, 1839 to 1890, and this Act may be cited together as "The Police Acts, 1839 to 1893. NORTH SEA FISHERIES ACT, 1893. 56 & 57 VICT. CAP. 17. An Act to carry into effect an International Convention respecting the 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: 1. The Convention set out in the schedule to this Act (hereinafter Confirmation referred to as the scheduled Convention) is, with the Protocol thereto of Convention. annexed, hereby confirmed, and the articles thereof shall be of the same force as if they were enacted in the body of this Act. 2. If within the North Sea limits but outside territorial waters any Penalty for person on board or belonging to a British vessel supplies spirituous liquors supplying, to any person on board or belonging to a sea fishing boat he shall be exchanging, liable or otherwise selling spirits. |