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Sanitary authority. The name, under the Public Health Acts prior to the P.H. Act, 1936, of the authorities for the purposes of those Acts. Under the Act of 1936 they are (i) in a county borough, the council of the borough, (ii) in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban district or rural district. 'Urban' or 'rural' authority means the respective council (see RURAL AUTHORITY), 'district' in relation to the local authority of a borough means the borough, and 'parish' in relation to a common parish council acting for two or more grouped parishes means those parishes. As to Port Health Authorities, see QUARANTINE....
Sanitation
The act of rendering sanitary the science of sanitary conditions the preservation of health the use of sanitary measures hygiene...
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219.The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen yearly. As to the customs of the city, see Pulling's Customs of London, p. 5 et seq.The customs of London as to the distribution of intestates' effects are abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.The administrative 'county' of London was established by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number o...
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
Thames
Thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.); defined in s. 3 as meaning and including:-So much of the rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much of the river Kennet as is between the Common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the river Thames and so much of the river Lee and Bow creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868, mentioned and all locks, cuts, and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks:Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority, and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any c...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Abatement
Abatement, a making less:-(1) Abatement of Freehold.-The title of a real action which has been abolished. This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, having no right, makes a wrongful entry and gets possession of it. Such an entry is technically called an abatement, and the stranger an abater. It is, in fact, a figurative expression, denoting that the rightful possession or freehold of the heir or devisee is overthrown by the unlawful intervention of a stranger. Abatement differs from intrusion, in that it is always to the prejudice of the heir or immediate devisee, whereas the latter is to the prejudice of the reversioner or remainder man: and disseisin differs from them both, for to disseise is to put forcibly or fraudulently a person seised of the freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a.(2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A remedy allowed by law to a person injured by a nuisance to remove or put an end to it by his own...
Milk
Milk. As to the sale of unwholesome milk, see (English) Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 116-119; and see, generally, (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, under which sampling powers are given and power to analyse samples, etc. (ss. 13 et seq.); and (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, ss. 53 and 54. See, further, the (English) Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 66), as amended by the (English) Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, making provision for the sale of milk and the regulation of dairies. If the premises are unsuitable for the sale of milk, the sanitary authority may refuse to register or may remove from the register the names of dairymen [(English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 185]. See also the (English) Mils (Special Designations) Order Mils) Regulations, 1923, No. 1323; Public Health (Condensed Mils) Regulations, 1925, No. 509; Mils and Dairies Order, 1926, No. 821: Mils (Special Designat...
Snow
Snow. Nuisances arising from snow may be pre-vented by bye-laws of local authorities under s. 81 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, but, in case of conflict, a regulation under the London Traffic Act, 1924, s. 10, is to prevail over any bye-law. If any obstruction shall arise in any highway from accumulation of snow, the surveyor is required from time to time, and within twenty-four hours after notice thereof from any justice of the peace of the county in which the parish may be situate, to cause the same to be removed, by s. 26 of the (English) Highways Act, 1835: Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' Snow is included in the 'street refuse' which London sanitary authorities must, as far as reasonably practicable, remove from the street, by s. 86 of the (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Health (Metropolis)'; but the fine up to 20l. was held to be the only liability o the authority if in default, Saunders v. Ho...
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