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for which the meeting was called together, shall be guilty of an offence, and if the offence is committed at a political meeting held in any parliamentary constituency between the date of the issue of a writ for the return of a Member of Parliament for such constituency and the date at which a return to such writ is made, he shall be guilty of an illegal practice within the meaning of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), and in any other case shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding £5 or to imprisonment not exceeding one month.

(2) Any person who incites others to commit an offence under this section shall be guilty of a like offence.

Section 1.

LABOUR EXCHANGES ACT, 1909.

[9 EDW. VII. CH. 7.]

3. Penalties for making false statements, &c., not exceeding £10.

WEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL SEEDS
(IRELAND) ACT, 1909.

[9 EDW. VII. CH. 31.]

An Act to prevent the spread of Noxious Weeds in Ireland, and to make provision for the testing of Agricultural Seeds.

[25th November 1909.

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

PART I.

Section 3.

Section 1.

1.-(1) The Department of Agricultural and Technical Instruction for Ireland (in this Act referred to as the " Department ") may, with the Definition consent of the council of any county, make an order declaring that of noxious throughout the county all plants of any species to which this section Department of applies are noxious weeds for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

(2) The species of plants to which this section applies are ragwort, charlock, coltsfoot, thistle, and dock, and the order may include all or any of those species.

(3) The consent of the county council shall be signified by a resolu

weeds by the

Agriculture.

Sections 1-6. tion passed at a meeting of the council, and a copy of the resolution under the seal of the council shall be accepted as sufficient evidence of such consent.

Destruction of noxious weeds.

Entry on premises.

Notices.

(4) The Department may, and at the request of the county council shall, revoke any order made under this section.

2. (1) Where the Department are satisfied that there are noxious weeds growing upon any land, they may serve upon the occupier of the land a notice in writing requiring him to cut down or destroy those weeds in the manner and within the time specified in the notice.

(2) If any occupier upon whom a notice is served under this section fails to carry out the requirements of the notice within the time therein. specified, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding, for the first offence, five pounds, and, for the second or any subsequent offence, ten pounds.

3. Any officer of the Department shall have power at all reasonable hours to enter upon any land for the purpose of ascertaining whether any noxious weeds are growing thereon.

4.—(1) Any notice which the Department are authorised to serve under this Act shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the secretary or other officer of the Department.

(2) Any such notice may be served by delivering the same or a true copy thereof either to or at the usual or last known residence of the person to whom it is addressed, or where addressed to the occupier of premises then to some person on the premises, or, if there is no person on the premises who can be so served, then by fixing the same or a true copy thereof on some conspicuous part of the premises; it may also be served by sending the same or a true copy thereof by post addressed to a person at such residence or premises as above mentioned.

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(3) Any such notice may be addressed by the description of the occupier" of the premises (naming them) in respect of which the notice is served without further name or description.

Power to examine and take samples/

PART II.

AGRICULTURAL SEEDS.

5.-(1). Any officer of the Department shall have power at all reasonable hours to enter the shop, store, or other premises of any person who of agricultural sells or exposes or keeps for sale agricultural seeds for sowing, and to examine and take samples of any agricultural seeds that are upon the premises.

seeds.

Testing of agricultural seeds and publication

of results.

(2) The person on whose premises a sample of agricultural seeds is taken under this section shall, if the officer requires, give the name and address of the person from whom he procured the seeds; and if he refuses to give such name and address, or wilfully gives a false name or address, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

6. The Department may cause any sample of agricultural seeds taken under this Act to be tested for purity and germination, and may publish in such manner as they think fit the results of the tests and the names and addresses of the persons upon whose premises the samples

were taken, and of the persons from whom the seeds were stated to Sections 6–10. have been procured.

PART III.

GENERAL.

7. If any person refuses to allow any officer of the Department to obstruction enter any land or premises which he is entitled to enter under this Act, of officers. or obstructs or impedes him in the execution of his duty, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

8-(1) Offences under this Act may be prosecuted, and penalties Prosecution recoverable under this Act may be recovered, in a summary manner.

(2) All penalties recovered under this Act shall, notwithstanding any provision in any other Act, be paid to the Department, and shall be applied in aid of the expenses of the Department in the execution of this Act.

9. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
The expression "noxious weed
noxious weed" means any plant declared by an
order of the Department under this Act to be a noxious weed
in any county to which the order applies:

The expression" agricultural seeds " means the seeds of grass, clover,
flax, cereals, turnips, rape, mangel, carrots, cabbage, or parsnips:
The expression "occupier" shall be deemed to include-

(a) in the case of any public road, the county or district council by whom the road is maintained;

(b) in the case of any land the occupier of which (being an individual) is absent from Ireland, any agent or other person entrusted with the management of the land on his behalf.

of offences.

Interpretation.

10. This Act shall apply to Ireland only, and shall come into opera- Extent, tion on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and ten, and may be cited as the Weeds and Agricultural Seeds (Ireland) Act, 1909.

commencement, and short title.

INDEX

ABSTRACTING QUALITY. See FOOD AND DRUGS.

ACCESSORIES, 337.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT—application to Ireland, 20; title to be construed
as part of Act, 20; marginal notes no part of Act, 21.

ADJOURNMENT-powers of justices to adjourn, 21; entry of adjournment
to be made in Order-Book, 21; when justice does not attend, 21;
difficult questions as to adjournment discussed, 21; when justices are
evenly divided, 22; justices can adjourn hearing if they believe defendant
has been misled, 102; in licensing applications, 192.

ADJUDICATION-must be express as to penalty, 23; dismissal, 23; form
of, when two offences charged, 23; fine, 24; ordering imprisonment,
24; fine in penal cases, 25; award to complainant, 25; costs, 26;
discharge on making satisfaction, 26; signature, 26.

ADULTERATED MILK. See FOOD AND DRUGS.

ADULTERATION OF SEEDS ACTS, 1869, 836.

ADVERTISEMENTS, 338.

AFFRAY. See RIOT.

AIDING AND ABETTING, 338.

ANALYST'S CERTIFICATE. See FOOD AND DRUGS.

ANCIENT MONUMENTS, 339.

APPEAL, 272; to whom, 272; in case a Petty Sessions district is in two
Quarter Sessions divisions, 272; under statutes prior to Petty Sessions
Act, 1851, and under subsequent statutes, 272.

Under Larceny and Malicious Injury Acts, 273.

In Excise Cases, 273, 274.

In Poaching Cases, 274.

Under the Cottier Tenant Act, 274.

Under the Small Debts Act, 274.

Appeal from a Dismiss, 274.

Proceedings in Appeals under Petty Sessions Act, 275; who may
appeal, 275; to what sessions the appeal should be taken, 275; appellant
must comply with certain requirements, 275; notice by appellant to
clerk of Petty Sessions, 275; appellant to enter into recognisance, 275;
amount of recognisance, 276; estreating recognisance, 276; notice by
appellant to respondent, 276; notice may be signed by a solicitor, 277;
notice by "party aggrieved," 277; joint notice, 277; time of service
of notices of appeal, 277; before first day of sessions, 277; notice on
Sunday, 277; service of notice, 278; erroneous dismissal for insufficiency
of notice, 278; form of appeal and certificate to be given to appellant,
278; transmission of recognisance, 278; notice by respondent to Petty
Sessions clerk, 279; respondent liable to fine in cases of non-compliance,

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