Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1893
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1893 c. 25 |
| Year | 1893 |
Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1893
(56 & 57 Vict.) CHAPTER 25.
An Act to amend the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892.
[27th July 1893]
B 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 Short title and construction.
1. This Act may be cited as theBurgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1893, and shall apply to Scotland only. It shall be read and construed along with the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 (hereinafter called ‘the said Act’).
2 Modifications of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 55. s. 9.
2. The provisions of the second and third sub-sections of the ninth section of the said Act are hereby repealed, and the fourth sub-section thereof shall read as if the words ‘the boundaries of a populous place are defined,’ were substituted for the words ‘a populous place is declared to be a burgh,’ and in lieu of the repealed sub-sections the following provisions shall have effect:—
(1) (1.) Where upon an application to any sheriff or sheriffs the boundaries of a populous place hive been defined as provided in the said Act, the sheriff or sheriffs shall thereupon, but only upon the requisition of any seven or more householders, accompanied, if the sheriff or sheriffs shall so require, with a satisfactory undertaking to pay the expenses after mentioned, convene a meeting of householders for the purpose of considering whether the provisions of the said Act shall be adopted and carried into execution, and such populous place declared to be a burgh.
The expression ‘householders’ shall have the same meaning as in the said Act, and it shall be the duty of the county assessor or assessors under the Valuation Acts, within fourteen days of an application or applications to that effect, to furnish to the sheriff or sheriffs for the purposes of this Act, a certified copy or list of the names and designations of all householders within the area on payment of a fee of not more than one shilling for each hundred names; and such copy or list shall be sufficient proof of the qualification of the householders named therein.
(2) (2.) The meeting shall be held not less than twenty-one days nor more than thirty days after the day on which the sheriff receives the requisition in question, and such meeting and the purpose thereof shall be duly...
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