Inebriates Amendment (Scotland) Act 1900

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Inebriates Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1900

(63 & 64 Vict.) CHAPTER 28.

An Act to amend the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899, for Scotland.

[30th July 1900]

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:

S-1 Power to assess and borrow. Repeal of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 60. s. 25 \(e).

1 Power to assess and borrow. Repeal of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 60. s. 25 \(e).

Subsection ( e ) of section twenty-five of the Inebriates Act, 1898, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following provisions shall have effect:—

For the purpose of defraying expenditure under the Inebriates Act, 1898, county councils and town councils shall

(1) have power to impose and levy an assessment in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the public health general assessment authorised by the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897 ; and

(2) have power to borrow money on the security of the said assessment for the capital purposes of the Inebriates Act, 1898, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as for the purposes enumerated in section one hundred and forty-one of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897.

S-2 Certain offences may be dealt with as if scheduled in the Inebriates Act, 1898.

2 Certain offences may be dealt with as if scheduled in the Inebriates Act, 1898.

Every person who in any road, street, or public place, or in any building to which the public have access, commits the offence of behaving while drunk in a riotous or disorderly manner, may be prosecuted summarily on a charge under this Act, and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and failing payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days, or in the discretion of the magistrate to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days.

An offence under this section shall be deemed to be an offence mentioned in the First Schedule to the Inebriates Act, 1898.

S-3 Short title and extent.

3 Short title and extent.

This Act shall apply to Scotland only, and may be cited as the Inebriates Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1900, and the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899, and this Act may be cited together...

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