Act, 1900. kirk-session of such parish, and thereafter a scheme showing the heritors proposed to be assessed and the amount of their respective assessments shall be made up, and shall be open, free of charge, to inspection by any heritor or other party interested for a period of at least thirty days at some convenient place in the parish, and intimation of the place where, and the period for which, the scheme is to be open to inspection, and the amount proposed to be levied on the heritor to whom it is sent shall be made by circular-letter sent by their clerk to all the heritors prior to the commencement of such period. 3. From and after the commencement of this Act, whenever Exemptions any ecclesiastical assessment is imposed upon lands and heritages from assessin any parish in Scotland according to the real rent thereof— (1) no part of such assessment shall be imposed or levied upon Provided always that no heritor, who by reason of any exemption or deduction allowed by this section is relieved altogether from assessment in respect of the execution of any work, shall be entitled at any meeting of heritors to take part in the discussion of, or to vote upon, any question concerning any plans for or the execution of the said work, or the defraying of the expenses of the same. any of the purposes mentioned The expression "valued contribute to ecclesiastical ment on real rent. 4. In this Act, except where inconsistent with the context, Definitions. expressions have the meaning attached to them in the Ecclesiastical 31 & 32 Vict. Buildings and Glebes (Scotland) Act. The expression "ecclesiastical c. 96. assessment" means an assessment for in section twenty-three of the said Act. rent heritor" means a heritor liable to assessments where the same are imposed according to the valued rent. The expression "real rent heritor" means a heritor liable to contribute to ecclesiastical assessments where the same are imposed according to the real rent. 5. This Act may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Assessments Short title (Scotland) Act, 1900, and shall commence to have effect from and comand after the first day of January one thousand nine hundred of Act. and one. mencement: Labour Underground) Act, 1900. CHAPTER 21. Prohibition of An Act to prohibit Child Labour Underground in Mines. [30th July 1900.] BE E 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.-(1.) A boy under the age of thirteen years shall not be employment of employed in or allowed to be for the purpose of employment in boys under any mine below ground, and accordingly sections four and five of thirteen below ground. the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, and section four of the 50 & 51 Vict. Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, shall be read and have effect as if for the word "twelve" the word "thirteen" were substituted therein. c. 58. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 77. Short title. (2.) Nothing in this section shall apply to any boy who has been lawfully employed in any mine below ground before the passing of this Act. 2. This Act may be cited as the Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act, 1900. www Application of 60 & 61 Vict. c. 37. to agricultural work. CHAPTER 22. An Act to extend the benefits of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, to Workmen in Agriculture. BE [30th July 1900.] E 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.--(1.) From and after the commencement of this Act, the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, shall apply to the employment of workmen in agriculture by any employer who habitually employs one or more workmen in such employment. (2.) Where any such employer agrees with a contractor for the execution by or under that contractor of any work in agriculture, section four of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, shall apply in respect of any workman employed in such work as if that employer were an undertaker within the meaning of that Act. Provided that, where the contractor provides and uses machinery driven by mechanical power for the purpose of threshing, ploughing, or other agricultural work, he, and he alone, shall be liable under this Act to pay compensation to any workman employed by him on such work. (3) Where any workman is employed by the same employer mainly in agricultural but partly or occasionally in other work, this Act shall apply also to the employment of the workman in such other work. The expression" agriculture" includes horticulture, forestry, and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of the keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry, or bees, and the growth of fruit and vegetables. 2. This Act may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation Act, Short title. 1900, and shall be read as one with the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1897 and 1900. 3. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of July Commenceone thousand nine hundred and one. ment of Act. CHAPTER 23. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Removal of BE by Queensent of the [30th July 1900.] E 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.-(1.) A person who has resided continuously for five years in Restriction on England shall not thereafter be removable to Ireland under the removal of Acts relating to the relief of the poor. (2.) In cases where under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor a pauper is removable from England to Ireland, boards of guardians may make and give effect to agreements that the pauper, instead of being removed, shall be maintained by the board of guardians of the poor law union from which he is removable at the expense of the board of guardians of the union to which, if removed, he would be chargeable; and such agreements may be entered into whether application for a warrant of removal has been made or not. 2. This Act may be cited as the Poor Removal Act, 1900. An Act to further amend the Law relating to Veterinary HEREAS persons who are the holders of the veterinary paupers from England to Ireland. Short title. Construction and short Act, 1900. veterinary surgery and medicine, but are not amenable to the disciplinary powers conferred on the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons over persons on the Register of Veterinary Surgeons : 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. This Act shall be supplemental to, and shall be read with, the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881 (herein-after called the principal 44 & 45 Vict. Act), and may be cited as the Veterinary Surgeons Amendment Act, 1900. title. c. 62. Extension or disciplinary powers of Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Penalties. Cases in which charitable loans are not to be invalid 2. From and after the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and one, all persons now holding the veterinary certificate of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland granted prior to the passing of the principal Act shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in like manner as members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and shall be liable to be deprived by the Council of the said College of the rights of styling themselves members of the veterinary profession, or recovering fees in respect of the practice of the veterinary art, subject to and under the conditions and with the restrictions specified in section six of the principal Act. 3. Any person who may be deprived of such rights under the provisions of section two of this Act shall be subject to the penalties mentioned in section seventeen of the principal Act if he takes or uses the title of veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner, or any name, title, addition, or description, stating that he is a veterinary surgeon, or a practitioner of veterinary surgery or of any branch thereof, or is specially qualified to practise the same, and he shall not be entitled to recover in any court any fee or charge for performing any veterinary operation, or for giving any veterinary attendance or advice, or for acting in any manner as a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner, or for practising in any case veterinary surgery or any branch thereof, anything in such section to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAPTER 25. An Act to amend the Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) 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. Any promissory note current or unpaid on the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and purporting to have been made, in pursuance of the provisions of the Charitable (Ireland) Act, 1900. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 91. Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1843 (in this Act referred to as the or liable to principal Act), to the treasurer or secretary of any loan society, stamp duty. shall not be invalid or incapable of being enforced in any court, or liable to stamp duty, by reason of any of the matters following:(a.) The non-residence of the borrower, at the time of the making of the note, in the district within which the operations of such society ought to have been conducted : (b.) The said note having been given as a renewal, in whole or in part, of, or in substitution for, any promissory note theretofore made by the borrower, or any person on his behalf, to the treasurer or secretary of such society: (c.) A previous loan made by the said society to the borrower, or any person on his behalf or for his use, being unpaid in whole or in part at the time of the making of the loan in respect of which the said note was made: (d.) The borrower having been at the time of the making of the loan surety for the repayment of any other loan made by the said society: (e.) The acceptance by the said society, as surety for the repayment of any loan, of any person who was at the time of the making of the said loan a borrower from the said society; (f) The loan having been in the first instance for a sum exceeding ten pounds in contravention of section twenty-four of the principal Act; or (g.) Interest or fines in excess of the amount authorised by the principal Act having been charged against, or paid by, the borrower on account of the indebtedness in respect of which the said note was made. Provided that every such note shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, only stand as a security for, and there shall only be recoverable thereon, such sum as would have been due thereon had such excess not been charged, and had due credit been given as against such sum for all moneys paid by, or on behalf of, the persons liable thereon, in discharge in whole or in part of such excess. 2. (1.) The treasurer of a loan society shall prepare and Provisions with provide an account setting forth the particulars of the amount respect to sought to be recovered in respect of any note under the principal taking account. Act, and that account shall be issued together with the summons for such recovery. (2.) In ascertaining the amount due in respect of any such note an account shall not be carried back for a period exceeding six years from the date of the note, and where the account is so carried back, the loan secured by the note current at the commencement of such period, or if no note was then current, by the note which last before that date became due shall be deemed and taken to be the first loan made by the said society to the borrower. |