Baths and Washhouses (Ireland) Act 1846
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1846 c. 87 |
(9 & 10 Vict.) C A P. LXXXVII.
[26th August 1846]
'WHEREAS it is desirable, for the Health, Comfort, and Welfare of the Inhabitants of Cities and Towns inIreland, to encourage the Establishment therein of public Baths and Wash-houses, and public open Bathing Places;' 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 Authorityof the same, That this Act may be adopted for any incorporated Borough inIreland which is regulated under an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, or any Charter granted in pursuance of the said Act, or any Act passed for the Amendment thereof; and also for any City or Town in Ireland in which any Commissioners shall have been or shall be elected under an Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituledAn Act to make Provision for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of Cities, Towns Corporate, and Market Towns in Ireland, in certain Cases; and for any City or Town in Ireland in which there shall be Commissioners or Trustees, or other Persons appointed for the Time being, under any local or other Act or Acts, for paving, flagging, lighting, watching, cleansing, or improving such Town, or for any of such Purposes, and in which respectively there shall not be a Town Council elected under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty.
II Interpretation of Act.
II. And be it enacted, That in this Act the following Words and Expressions shall have the several Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction; (that is to say,)
‘Town’ shall include any Borough in which Commissioners, Trustees, or other Persons have been or shall be elected or appointed under the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Fourth, or any such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid, for the Purposes of executing the Provisions or Powers of such Act or Acts, or superintending the Execution of the same, and in which there shall not be a Town Council elected under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty:
‘Town Rate’ shall mean the Rate or Rates authorized in each Case to be levied by any such Commissioners, Trustees, or other such Persons as aforesaid, elected or appointed for any City or Town under the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Fourth, or any such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid:
‘Town Fund’ shall mean the Town Fund, or the Rates or Property vested in and under the Control and Direction of any such Town Commissioners for any such City or Town as last aforesaid, applicable to the Purposes of the said Act of the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Fourth, or the said Act of the Reign of Her present Majesty, or any of them, or the Rates, Funds, or Property vested in any such Commissioners, Trustees, or other Persons as aforesaid, under any such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid, and applicable to the Purposes of such local or other Act or Acts:
‘Town Commissioners’ shall mean the Commissioners for the Time being elected under the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, for any such City or Town in Ireland, or the Commissioners, Trustees, or other such Persons as aforesaid appointed for the Time being under any such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid for any such City or Town, for paving, flagging, lighting, watching, or cleansing or improving the same, or for any of such Purposes:
‘Clerk’ shall mean, as regards an incorporated Borough, the Town Clerk of such Borough, and as regards a City or Town in which there shall be Commissioners, Trustees, or other such Persons as aforesaid under the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Fourth, or any such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid, the Clerk appointed by the Town Commissioners:
‘Justice’ shall mean Justice of the Peace for the County, Riding, Division, Liberty, Borough, or Place where the Matter requiring the Cognizance of Justices shall arise:
‘Lands’ shall mean Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of whatsoever Nature or Tenure:
Words importing the Masculine Gender shall include the Feminine:
Words of the Plural Number shall include the Singular, and Words of the Singular Number shall include the Plural.
III Council of any Borough, or Commissioners for any City or Town, may adopt this Act, if they think fit.
III. And be it enacted, That the Council of any such incorporated Borough as aforesaid, or the Town Commissioners for any such City or Town as aforesaid, in which there shall not be a Town Council, may, if they think fit, determine that this Act shall be adopted for such Borough, or for such City or Town as aforesaid; and then and in such Case such of the Provisions of this Act as are applicable in that Behalf shall thenceforth take effect and come into operation in such Borough, or such City or Town, as the Case may be; and this Act shall be carried into execution in such Borough, or in such City or Town, in accordance with such Provisions, and the Laws for the Time being in force relating to the Municipal Corporation of such Borough, or relating to such City or Town, under the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, or of such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid, as the Case may be.
IV Expences of carrying this Act into execution shall be charged upon the Borough Fund or Town Fund, and Income arising carried to the same.
IV. And be it enacted, That the Expences of carrying this Act into execution in any such Borough or such City or Town in which the Council or Town Commissioners respectively shall have resolved to adopt this Act for their Borough or City or Town respectively shall be chargeable upon and paid out of the Borough Fund or Town Fund respectively; and for that Purpose the Council or Town Commissioners may levy with and as Part of the Borough Rate or Town Rate respectively, or by a separate Rate to be assessed, levied, paid, and recovered in like Manner and with the like Powers and Remedies in all respects as the Borough Rate or Town Rate, such Sums of Money as shall be from Time to Time necessary for defraying such Expences, and shall apply the same accordingly, as if the Expence of carrying this Act into execution were an Expence necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, or the said Act of the Ninth Year of His Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, or of such local or other Act or Acts as aforesaid, as the Case may be; and the Income arising from the Baths and Wash-houses and open Bathing Places in any Borough or City or Town shall be paid to the Credit of the Borough Fund or Town Fund thereof; and the Council and Town Commissioners respectively shall keep distinct Accounts of their Receipts, Payments, Credits, and Liabilities, with reference to the Execution of this Act, to be called ‘The public Baths and Wash-houses Account.’
V Town Council and Commissioners to cause separate Accounts to be kept.
V. And be it enacted, That when the Town Council of any such Borough as aforesaid, or the Town Commissioners for any such City or Town as aforesaid, shall have adopted this Act for their Borough, City, or Town respectively, they shall cause their Treasurer, or where there shall be no Treasurer such Person as they shall appoint, to keep a true and regular Account of all Sums of Money expended by them in the Purchase of any Land or Buildings for the Purpose of erecting Baths or Wash-houses thereon, or in the Purchase of any Baths now erected, and of all Sums of Money borrowed by them under the Powers of this Act, and of all Expences incurred by them for or on account of the Purposes of this Act; and the said Account shall be examined, balanced, and audited in like Manner and at the same Time as all other Accounts of Receipts and Payments of such Borough, City, or Town respectively are examined, balanced, and audited; and the said Council or Town Commissioners shall, within One Month after the same shall have been examined and balanced or audited, transmit to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland for the Time being a true and correct Copy of such Account; and the said Council or Town Commissioners shall also within the Time aforesaid cause a Copy of such Account to be deposited in the Office of the Town Clerk, or of such Person as they shall appoint to execute the Duties of Clerk of such Council or Commissioners, within One Month after the same shall have been audited; and the said Account shall be open to the Inspection of all Inhabitants of such Borough, City, or Town, and Copies thereof shall be delivered to any...
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