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Qualification Act, 1900.

Definitions, 3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "county elector" means a person entitled to vote at the election of a county councillor, under the Local Government Act, 1888, and the expression "parochial elector" means a parochial elector within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1894.

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CHAPTER 30.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Beer Retailers' and Spirit Grocers' Licences in Ireland.

[30th July 1900.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law as to the granting

of certificates for all licences for the sale of beer and spirits

by retail for consumption off the premises:

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. Notwithstanding anything in any Act the licensing justices shall be at liberty, in their free and unqualified discretion, either to refuse a certificate for any new excise or other licence for sale of beer or spirits by retail, to be consumed off the premises, on any grounds appearing to them sufficient, or to grant the same to such persons as they, in the execution of their statutory powers, and in the exercise of their discretion deem fit and proper, and for the purposes aforesaid shall be at liberty to hear and receive and act upon any objection and any evidence either in support thereof or in aid of the application made or tendered by any resident or owner of property in the parish wherein are situate the house and premises in respect of which such certificate is applied for.

2. Certificates for any such licences as aforesaid shall, notwithstanding anything in any Act, be granted at annual licensing sessions, and not at any other time.

3. The provision requiring the production of a certificate as to the exclusive occupation of rated premises for a period of three months contained in section two of the Beer Licences Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1877, shall not apply to the case of a transfer of a licence being granted on the death or removal of the person in occupation of the rated premises immediately prior to the granting of such transfer.

4.-(1.) This Act may be cited as the Beer Retailers' and Spirit Grocers' Retail Licences (Ireland) Act, 1900, and may be cited with the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833 to 1886, and shall be construed as one with those Acts.

(2.) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September one thousand nine hundred.

CHAPTER 31.

An Act to amend the Law with respect to the Customs
Duties in the Isle of Man.
[6th August 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 foll.ws:

tobacco, tea,

1. In addition to the duties cí Customs now payable on tobacco, Additional tea, and spirits, removed or imported into the Isle of Man, there duties on shall be charged, levied, and paid, as from the sixth day of March and spirits. nineteen hundred until the first day of August nineteen hundred and one, the duties following (that is to say):

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Snuff containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture
in every 100 lbs. weight thereof
Snuff not containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture
in every 100 lbs. weight thereof

Tobacco, unmanufactured, viz. :

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Containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every
100 lbs. weight thereof

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Containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every
100 lbs. weight thereof -

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Spirits of any kind (except perfumed spirits)
computed at hydrometer proof
Liqueurs, cordials, or mixed or sweetened

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bottle entered in such a manner as to indicate that the strength is not to be tested Perfumed spirits

2. In lieu of the duties of Customs now payable on ale or beer Duty on ale removed or imported into the Isle of Man there shall be charged, and beer. levied, and paid, as from the eighth day of March nineteen hundred, the duty following (that is to say) :—

For every thirty-six gallons where the worts thereof
were before fermentation of a specific gravity of
1055 degrees a duty of-

With a proportionate increase or decrease
according to the specific gravity of the worts
thereof before fermentation.

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And in addition to the said duty there shall be £ 8. d.
charged, levied, and paid, as from the said eighth
day of March nineteen hundred until the first
day of August nineteen hundred and one, for
every thirty-six gallons where the worts thereof
were before fermentation of a specific gravity of
1055 degrees, an additional duty of

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With a proportionate increase or decrease
according to the specific gravity of the worts
thereof before fermentation.

3. In section three of the Customs (Isle of Man) Tariff Act, 1874, the words "according to the foregoing table" and the words "according to the scale in the said table," and in section one of the Isle of Man (Customs) Act, 1895, the words "ale or beer according to the specific gravity of the worts thereof before fermentation as set forth in the following table," and the table therein referred to, are hereby repealed.

4. This Act may be cited as the Isle of Man (Customs) Act, 1900.

CHAPTER 32.

Further

limitation of liability of shipowner. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

Limitation of liability of harbour conservancy authority.

An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, with
respect to the Liability of Shipowners and others.
[6th August 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. The limitation of the liability of the owners of any ship set by section five hundred and three of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of loss of or damage to vessels, goods, merchandise, or other things, shall extend and apply to all cases where (without their actual fault or privity) any loss or damage is caused to property or rights of any kind, whether on land or on water, or whether fixed or moveable, by reason of the improper navigation or management of the ship.

2.-(1.) The owners of any dock or canal, or a harbour authority or a conservancy authority, as defined by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall not, where without their actual fault or privity any loss or damage is caused to any vessel or vessels, or to any goods, merchandise, or other things whatsoever on board any vessel or vessels, be liable to damages beyond an aggregate amount not exceeding eight pounds for each ton of the tonnage of the largest registered British ship which, at the time of such loss or damage occurring, is, or within the period of five years previous thereto has been, within the area over which such dock or canal

Shipowners and others) Act, 1900.

owner, harbour authority, or conservancy authority, performs any duty or exercises any power. A ship shall not be deemed to have been within the area over which a harbour authority or a conservancy authority performs any duty, or exercises any powers, by reason only that it has been built or fitted out within such area, or that it has taken shelter within or passed through such area on a voyage between two places both situate outside that area, or that it has loaded or unloaded mails or passengers within that area.

(2.) For the purpose of this section the tonnage of ships shall be ascertained as provided by section five hundred and three, subsection two, of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the register of any ship shall be sufficient evidence that the gross tonnage and the deductions therefrom and the registered tonnage are as therein stated.

(3.) Section five hundred and four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply to this section as if the words "owner of a British or foreign ship" included a harbour authority, and a conservancy authority, and the owner of a canal or of a dock.

(4.) For the purpose of this section the term "dock" shall include wet docks and basins, tidal docks and basins, locks, cuts, entrances, dry docks, graving docks, gridirons, slips, quays, wharves, piers, stages, landing-places, and jetties.

(5.) For the purposes of this section the term owners of a dock or canal" shall include any person or authority having the control and management of any dock or canal, as the case may be.

(6.) Nothing in this section shall impose any liability in respect of any such loss or damage on any such owners or authority in any case where no such liability would have existed if this Act had not passed.

where several

3. The limitation of liability under this Act shall relate to the Limitation whole of any losses and damages which may arise upon any one of liability distinct occasion, although such losses and damages may be claims arise sustained by more than one person, and shall apply whether the on one liability arises at common law or under any general or private Act of Parliament, and notwithstanding anything contained in such Act.

occasion.

4. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Liability Short title. of Shipowners and others) Act, 1900.

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60 & 61 Vict. c. 61.

5. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Construction. Shipping Act, 1894, and that Act and the Merchant Shipping Act, & 58 Vict. c. 60. 1897, the Merchant Shipping (Exemption from Pilotage) Act, 60 & 61 Vict. c. 59. 1897, the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners) Act, 1898, 61 & 62 Vict. c.14. the Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898, and this Act, may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts,

1894 to 1990.

61 & 62 Vict. c. 44.

Protection Act, 1900.

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Penalty.

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Act.

CHAPTER 33.

An Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Wild Animals
in Captivity.
[6th August 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. The word "animal" in this Act means any bird, beast, fish, or reptile which is not included in the Cruelty to Animals Acts, 1849 and 1854.

2. Any person shall be guilty of an offence who, whilst an animal is in captivity or close confinement, or is maimed, pinioned, or subjected to any appliance or contrivance for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from such captivity or confinement, shall, by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting any act,

cause or permit to be caused any unnecessary suffering to such animal; or

cruelly abuse, infuriate, tease, or terrify it, or permit it to be so treated.

3. Any person committing an offence may be proceeded against under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and on conviction shall for every such offence be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding five pounds, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour.

4. This Act shall not apply to any act done or any omission in the course of destroying or preparing any animal for destruction 39 & 40 Vict. as food for mankind nor to any act permitted by the Cruelty to

c. 77.

Short title.

Animals Act, 1876, nor to the hunting or coursing of any animal which has not been liberated in a mutilated or injured state in order to facilitate its capture or destruction.

5. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Wild Animals in Captivity Protection Act, 1900.

CHAPTER 34.

An Act to amend the Ancient Monuments Protection
Act, 1882.
[6th August 1900.]

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E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lord Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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