Amend

3. Short title.

An Act to amend certain Provisions of
the Local Government Act, 1888,
with respect to the Determination of
Differences by the Local Government
Board.
[21st May 1896.]

Be 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 Local Government Act, 1888, shall ment of have effect, as if in sub-sections three and 51 & 52 Vict. four of section eleven of that Act for the as to deter words "be determined by arbitration of the mination of "Local Government Board," and in subdifferences. section nine of the same section for the words

c. 44. s. 11

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be referred to the arbitration of the Local

Declaration as to meaning of

c. 70. s. 99.

An Act to remove certain doubts with respect to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, so far as it applies to Ireland. [2nd July 1896.]

Be 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.) It is hereby declared that where the town commissioners of any town in Ireland, 53 & 54 Vict. not being an urban sanitary district, have adopted Part Three of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, they shall have the same powers under Part Three of that Act of acquiring land and otherwise as any other local authority, and the said Part Three 41 & 42 Vict, and the sections of the Public Health (Ireland)

C. 52.

Act, 1878, applied for the purpose of that Part, shall apply accordingly as if such town commissioners were a sanitary authority; and if such town commissioners are not already a body corporate, they shall, for the purpose of

holding such land, and of suing and being sued in respect thereof, be nevertheless deemed a body corporate with perpetual succession.

(2.) Any instrument relating to such land shall be duly executed by such town commissioners if executed in manner provided by section fifty-nine of the Commissioners Clauses 10 & 11 Vict. Act, 1847, with respect to conveyances by c. 16. commissioners who are not a body corporate.

2. It is hereby declared that the forms in Forms. the Fourth Schedule to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, may be altered in Ireland so as to be in conformity with the forms ordinarily used in Ireland under the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and need 14 & 15 Vict. not be under seal.

c. 93.

A.D. 1896.

A.D. 1896,

hort title.

Totice of erelict essels to be iven by nasters to

Joyd's gents.

1. Short title.

An Act for the better reporting of Floating Derelicts. [2nd July 1896.] Be 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. This Act may be cited as the Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896.

2. Every master or other person for the time being in command of any British ship, after the passing of this Act, who shall become aware of the existence on the high seas of any floating derelict vessel, shall notify the same to the Lloyd's agent at his next place of call or arrival, and shall, together with such notification, furnish to the Lloyd's agent all such information as he may possess as to the supposed locality or identity of such derelict vessel, and the date when and place where the

same may have been observed by or reported to him, and the Lloyd's agent shall forthwith on receipt of such notification and information transmit the same to the secretary of Lloyd's in London.

And if any such master fails to make such a report he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

3. If there shall be no Lloyd's agent at the Letters to be next place of call or arrival, then and in such sent to Lloyd's in case the notification shall be made and the default of information furnished by such master or other agents. person as aforesaid, to the secretary of Lloyd's, London.

4. Any information [received by the society Information of Lloyd's as aforesaid, in pursuance of this to be published by Act, shall be published by the society forth- Lloyd's. with in the same manner and to the same extent as its reports of shpiping casualities, and the society shall also forthwith communicate such information to the Board of Trade.

A.D. 1896. meeting, before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, at their discretion, with the previous consent of the patron, extend the term fixed for the repayment of any money lent by them to or for the incumbent of any such benefice, under the powers of one or more of the Acts enumerated in the schedule hereto, that is to say:

By extending such term for any period not exceeding twenty years, so that by such extension the amount of the annual instalments payable in respect of the loan shall be reduced as from the day of the annual payment due next before the date of the resolution to be passed in respect of such benefice; and such extension may be granted notwithstanding the original term may have been before extended, and in the case of any extension of the

Citation of Acts in First Schedule.

Collective titles.

An Act to facilitate the Citation of sundry Acts of Parliament.

[20th July 1896.]

BE 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. Each of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the short title therein mentioned in that behalf.

2.-(1.) Each of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act

may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the collective title therein mentioned in that behalf.

(2.) If it is provided that any Act passed after this Act may, as to the whole or any part thereof, be cited with any of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, or with any group of Acts to which a collective title has been given by any Act passed before this Act, that group shall be construed as including that Act or part, and, if the collective title of the group states the first and last years of the group, the year in which that Act is passed shall be substituted for the last year of the group, and so on as often as a subsequent Act or part is added to the group.