A.D. 1900. An Act to amend the Colonial Stock Amendment Power for trustees to invest in Colonial 56 & 57 Vict. 1. For the purpose of enabling the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 and 1892, to be applied to stock issued before the passing of this Act, it shall not be necessary that any prospectus, notice, stock certificate, coupon, dividend warrant, or other certificate or document issued before the passing of this Act in relation to the stock, should state the particulars required to be stated therein by section nineteen of the Colonial Stock Act, 1877. 2. The securities in which a trustee may invest under the powers of the Trustee Act, 1893, shall include any Colonial Stock which is registered in the United Kingdom in accordance with the provisions of the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 and 1892, as amended by this Act, A.D. 19. The restrictions mentioned in section two 3. In the application of this Act to Scotland Application the words "Trusts (Scotland) Amendment Act, to Scotland. 1884," shall be substituted for the words "Trustee Act, 1893," where those words first occur in section two, and the restrictions mentioned at the end of the said section shall apply. 4. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Short title. Stock Act, 1900, and the Colonial Stock Acts, 40 & 41 Vict. 1877 and 1892, and this Act may be cited collectively as the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 c. 35. to 1900. c. 59. CHAP. 63. Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1900. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 42 (1), as to withdrawal of petition. 2. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 51, as to making of poor rate. 3. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 54, as to gale day and as to deductions from rent in 4. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 69, as to salaries of officers. 5. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 103, as to expenses. 6. Power to grant gratuities under 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 115 (19), and to commute allowances. 7. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 121 as to certain expenses. 8. Amendment of Application of Enactments Order, 1898, Schedule, Article 19. 9. Amendment of Application of Enactments Order, 1898, Schedule, Article 24. SCHEDULE. An Act to amend sections forty-two, Schedule to the Local Government Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 51, as to making of poor rate. Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 54, as to gale day and as to 2. Notwithstanding anything in section fifty-one of the principal Act, the council of any county or of any urban district may, if they think fit, either immediately prior to or at the beginning of each local financial year, make one poor rate for the whole financial year and collect the same in equal moieties, one moiety for each half year. 3.-(1.) Section fifty-four of the principal Act shall be deemed to have had effect as from the gale day last before the appointed day under that Act in the case of any tenancy one of the deductions gale days of which is in March. from rent in urban dis tricts. (2.) Subsection (4) of the said section fiftyfour shall apply with the necessary modifications, and shall be deemed to have so applied as from the gale day last before or next after the appointed day under the principal Act, as the case requires, where a deduction is or has been made from rent by virtue of subsection (11) of the said section, either as amended or not, in like manner as it applies where rent is reduced. Provided that where a person receiving and paying rent in respect of the same holding would not, if the principal Act or this Act had not passed, have been entitled to deduct more than half the poor rate from the rent paid by him, the reduction or deduction which may be made under the said subsection (4), either as extended or not, shall be calculated on the assumption that the occupier was entitled to deduct half the standard amount for poor rate in the standard financial year. (3.) Where an occupier is entitled under subsection (11) of the said section fifty-four to deduct from his rent a portion of the poor rate, he shall, instead of deducting the portion mentioned in the said subsection, be and, as from the gale day last before or next after the appointed day under the principal Act as the case requires, be deemed to have been, entitled to deduct a sum bearing the same proportion to the amount of poor rate actually paid by him from time to time in respect of the holding (exclusive of any amount raised as a separate item thereof under the principal Act) as the total amount he would have been entitled to deduct in the standard financial year, whether on account of poor rate or county cess, or both, on the assumption that the standard amounts of 61 & 62 4. In section sixty-nine of the principal Act, Amendment the following provision shall be inserted and Vict. c. 37. shall be deemed to have had effect as from the s. 69, as to salaries of appointed day under the principal Act :officers. "For the purpose of the application of section one hundred and ten of the Grand Juries Act, 1836, to any county of a city constituted by this Act, that county of a city shall be treated in the same manner as the city of Cork is treated for the purposes of the said section." 5. Any expenses of the Appeal Commission Amendment and of any officer assigned by the Local Govern- of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 87. ment Board to assist the Commission men- s. 103, as to tioned in section one hundred and three of the expenses. principal Act incurred after the thirty-first day of March last before the passing of this Act, shall be defrayed out of the sums paid to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account under section fifty-eight of the principal Act. ties under commute 6.-(1.) Where an officer becomes after the Power to passing of this Act entitled to compensation in grant gratui pursuance of subsection (19) of section one 61 & 62 Vict. hundred and fifteen of the principal Act, the c. 37. s. 115. council by whom the compensation is payable (19), and to may, if they think fit, on the application of allowances. such officer, award him in lieu of an annual allowance, a gratuity according to the scale in Part One of the Seventh Schedule to the principal Act, and the amount of any such gratuity shall in case of dispute be determined by the Treasury. (2.) Where an annual allowance has before the passing of this Act been awarded to an officer under the said subsection the council may, if they think fit, on the application of the officer, commute the allowance by the payment of a gratuity calculated on the basis contained in the Schedule to this Act. (3.) The provision of a gratuity by a council under this section shall be a purpose for which such council may borrow in accordance with the enactments relating to borrowing by such council. 7. Where the duties under the Juries Amendment (Ireland) Acts, 1871 to 1894, are performed by of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. an existing clerk of a union in pursuance of s. 121 as to section one hundred and twenty-one of the certain ex penses. tion of Schedule, Article 24. 6 & 7 Vict. Amendment 9. Article twenty-four of the Schedule to the of Applica. Local Government (Application of Enactments) Enactments Order, 1898, shall apply to every town in like Order, 1858, manner as it applies to any county borough or other borough, and shall also apply to the powers conferred by section eight of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1843, by section ten of the Baths and Wash-houses (Ireland) Act, 1846, by section five of the Pub40 & 41 Vict. lic Libraries (Ireland) Act, 1877, and by sections 53 & 54 Vict. ninety-eight and ninety-nine of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. c. 93. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 87. c. 15. c. 70. construe. 11.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Local Short title, Government (Ireland) Act, 1900, and shall be tion, and construed as one with the Local Government commence(Ireland) Act, 1898, which is in this Act ment of Act. referred to as "the principal Act" and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government (Ireland) Acts, 1898 and 1900. (2.) Subject as in this Act mentioned, this Act shall come into operation on the first day of April next after the passing thereof, or on such other day not more than twelve months earlier or later as the Local Government Board may appoint, either generally or with reference to any particular provision of this Act. NOTE. The capital letters placed after the chapter have the following signification :- Great Britain and Ireland (and Colonies, if it so extend). The Colonies specially, or any of them. Character which have been placed among the Local Acts A. ABERDEEN, Dean of Guild to be member of Town Council. See Town COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) ACT ACCIDENTS PREVENTION. See RAILWAY EMPLOYMENT (PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS) ACT (c. 27). ACTIVE SERVICE, ABSENCE ON, NO DISQUALIFICATION. See MEMBERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. See EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE ACT (c. 37); SECOND SESSION (EXPLANA- ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. See- COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT (c. 14). COUNTY COURTS (INVESTMENT) ACT (c. 47). LAND CHARGES ACT (c. 26). WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY PROTECTION A.D. 1900. A.D. 1900. ADMIRALTY. See MILITARY LANDS ACT (c. 56); NAVAL RESERVE (MOBILISATION) ACT (c. 17). AGE FOR COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE RAISED TO FOURTEEN. See ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT AGGREGATION, Amendment of Finance Act, 1894, as to. See FINANCE ACT (c. 7, s. 12). AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS: To amend the Law relating to Agricultural Holdings. Ch. 50. E. & S. AGRICULTURE. See AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT (c. 50); VETERINARY SURGEONS AMENDMENT ALLOTMENT OF SHARE CAPITAL. See COMPANIES ACT (c. 48, ss. 4-8). ALLOWANCES TO OFFICERS, Commutation of. See LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) ACT (c. 63, ALLOWANCES TO POLICE RESERVISTS. See POLICE RESERVISTS (ALLOWANCES) ACT (c. 9). ANCIENT MONUMENTS PROTECTION : To amend the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882. Ch. 34. E. & S. ANIMALS. See WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY PROTECTION ACT (c. 33). ANNUAL SUMMARY. See COMPANIES ACT (c. 48, ss. 19, 20). ANNUITIES, TERMINABLE, Borrowing by means of. See LAND REGISTRY (NEW BUILDINGS) ACT prolonged. See FINANCE ACT (c. 7, s. 17, Sch. I.). ANSTRUTHER WESTER, COUNCIL of. See TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) ACT (c. 49, s. 103). ARBITRATION. See AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT (c. 50, s. 2, Sch. II.). ARMS. See EXPORTATION OF ARMS ACT (c. 44). ARMY (ANNUAL); To provide, during Twelve Months, for the Discipline and Regulation of the ASSESSMENTS. See ECCLESIASTICAL ASSESSMENTS (SCOTLAND) Act (c. 20). ASSESSORS, Duties of. See TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) ACT (c. 49, ss. 25-31). ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL. See AVERAGE ATTENDANCE; COMPULSORY ATTENdance. AUDIT. See COMPANIES ACT (c. 48, ss. 21-23). AUDITOR, Appointment, &c. of. See TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) ACT (c. 49, ss. 94, 95). CONSTITUTION OF COMMONWEALTH (c. 12, s. 9); viz. :- A.D. 19 |