Fairs Act 1868
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1868 c. 51 |
| Year | 1868 |
Fairs Act, 1868
(31 & 32 Vict.) C A P. LI.
An Act to amend the Law relating to Fairs inEngland and Wales .
[13th July 1868]
W HEREAS it is expedient to make Provision to facilitate the Alteration of the Days upon which Fairs are now held inEngland and Wales : 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 Short Title.
1. This Act may be cited as ‘TheFairs Act, 1868.’
2 Interpretation.
2. In this Act the Term ‘Owner’ means any Person or Persons, or Body of Commissioners or Body Corporate, entitled to hold any Fair, whether in respect of the Ownership of any Lands or Tenements, or under any Charter, Letters Patent, or Act of Parliament, or otherwise howsoever.
3 Secretary of State to have.
3. In case it shall appear to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, upon Representation duly made to him by the Magistrates of any Petty Sessional District within which any Fair is held, or by the Owner of any Fair inEngland or Wales , that it would be for the Convenience and Advantage of the Public that any such Fair shall be held in each Year on some Day or Days other than that or those on which such Fair is used to be held, it shall be lawful for the said Secretary of State for the Home Department to order that such Fair shall be held on such other Day or Days as he shall think fit: Providedalways, that Notice of such Representation, and of the Time when it shall please the Secretary of State for the Home Department to take the same into consideration, shall be published once in theLondon Gazette and in Three successive Weeks in some one and the same Newspaper published in the County, City, or Borough in which such Fair is held, or if there be no Newspaper published therein, then in the Newspaper of some County adjoining or near thereto, before such Representation is so considered.
4 Order of Secretary of State to be published in certain Newspapers.
4. When and so soon as any such Order as aforesaid shall have been made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Notice of the making of the same shall be published in theLondon Gazette and in some one Newspaper of the County, City, or Borough in which such Fair is usually held, or if...
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