Cambridge University and Corporation Act 1894
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1894 c. lx |
| Year | 1894 |
[57 & 58 VICT.]
Cambridge University
and
Corporation
[Oh., lx.]
Act, 1894.
CHAPTER lx.
An Act to amend the Law relating to the jurisdiction of
A.D.
1894.
the Chancellor Vice-Chancellor and other authorities
of the University of Cambridge over persons not
Members of the University and to make better pro-
vision for the use of commons the management of
markets and fairs and in other respects for the local
government and improvement of the borough of
Cambridge and for other purposes. [3rd July 1894.]
W
HEREAS by a charter dated or purporting to be dated the
twenty-sixth day of April in the third year of Her reign Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth granted (among other things) " That the
" Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
" by themselves or their deputies officers servants and ministers
" from time to time as well by day as by night at their pleasure
" might make scrutiny search and inquisition in the town and
" suburbs and in Barnwell and Sturbridge for all common women
" bawds vagabonds and other suspected persons coming or resorting
" to the town and suburbs or the said fairs and punish all whom
" on such scrutiny search and inquisition they should find guilty
" or suspected of evil by imprisonment of their bodies banishment
" or otherwise as the Chancellor or his vice-gerent should deem
" fit And the mayor bailiffs and other officers and ministers of the
" town and all other persons whatsoever were commanded not to
" impede such scrutiny search and inquisition but on request of
" the Chancellor or his vice-gerent aid and assist therein under pain
" of contempt and incurring the indignation of the Queen Her
" heirs and successors " :
And whereas by an Act passed in the thirteenth year of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth chapter twenty-nine intituled " An Acte
" for Thincorporaton of bothe Thunyversities " (section 2) the said
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[Ch. lX.] Qambridge University and Cwporation [57 & 58 VICT.]
A.D.
1894. charter was declared to be good effectual and available in law to all
— intents constructions and purposes:
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Geo.
IV. And whereas by section 3 of an Act of Parliament passed in
c- 97- the sixth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth intituled
" An Act for the better preservation of the peace and good order in
" the Universities of England " it was enacted " that every common
" prostitute and night-walker found wandering in any public walk
" street or highway within the precincts of the said University of
" Oxford and not giving a satisfactory account of herself shall be
" deemed an idle and disorderly person within the true intent and
" meaning of the Act 5 Geo. IV. cap. 83 intituled ' An Act for the
" ' punishment of idle and disorderly persons and rogues and
" ' vagabonds in that part of Great Britain called England' and
" shall and may be apprehended arid dealt with accordingly " :
And whereas it is expedient to repeal the recited portion of the
charter and so much of the first recited Act or any other Act as
confirms or preserves the same and to extend to the University of
Cambridge the recited section 3 of the said Act 6 Geo. IV. cap. 97
and to confer further powers on the proctors and pro-proctors of
the University of Cambridge for the maintenance of discipline
among its members:
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Yict. And whereas by section 10 of the Theatres Act 1843 no theatre
c
68.
or other place of public resort can be licensed for the public per-
formance of stage plays within the precincts of the University of
Cambridge or within fourteen miles of the town of Cambridge
without the consent of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of the
University:
9 Vict. And whereas by section 16 of the Cambridge Award Act 1856
c xvii. no occasional public exhibition or performance (whether strictly
theatrical or not) other than performances in theatres regulated by
the Theatres Act 1843 can take place within the borough of
Cambridge (except during the period of the Midsummer Pair or in
the Long Vacation) unless with the consent in writing of the Vice-
Chancellor and the mayor:
And whereas the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough
of Cambridge (in this Act called the Corporation) are the local
authority within the meaning of the Public Health Acts Amend-
ment Act 1890 and a resolution of the council of the borough was
duly passed on the 13th day of July 1893 for the adoption of
Part IV. (music and dancing) of that Act and fixing the 1st day of
October then next for the coming into operation of the same within
the borough:
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