Labourers (Ireland) Act 1886
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1886 c. 59 |
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1886
(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 59.
An Act to amend the Labourers (Ireland) Acts.
[25th June 1886]
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.
1. This Act may be cited as theLabourers (Ireland) Act, 1886.
2 Construction of Act.
2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883, and the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1885, (herein-after referred to as ‘the said Acts,’) except in so far as the said Acts are expressly altered or varied by this Act or are inconsistent therewith, and together with the said Acts may be cited as the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1886. Any words or expressions in this Act which are not defined therein and which are defined in the said Acts, shall, unless there is something in the context of this Act repugnant thereto, have the same meaning as in the said Acts.
3 Amendment of 46 & 47 Vict. c. 60. s. 6.
3. The sixth section of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883, shall be amended, and shall be read as if the words following were added at the end of the said section, ‘and, save by agreement with the owner and occupier, such lands only shall be selected as immediately adjoin, and are accessible from, a then existing public road.’
4 Definition of agricultural labourer.
4. So much of the twenty-third section of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1885, as defines an agricultural labourer shall be and is hereby repealed.
The expression ‘agricultural labourer’ in the said Acts and in this Act shall mean a man or woman who does agricultural work for hire at any season of the year on the land of some other person or persons, and shall include hand-loom weavers and fishermen doing agricultural work as aforesaid, and shall also include herdsmen.
5 Representation to authority by ratepayers.
5. Where a sanitary authority has resolved that in any case of a representation under the said Acts or this Act the electoral division shall be the area of charge for the purposes of the said Acts and of this Act, and where a representation is made to such sanitary authority in respect of any electoral division in which not more than twenty ratepayers are resident, then, in such case, the representation, if signed by six ratepayers, shall be received and acted upon by the sanitary authority, and shall be in all respects as valid and effectual as if it had been signed by twelve ratepayers, as prescribed by section five of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883: Provided also, that three ratepayers in any such electoral division may apply to the Local Government Board to amalgamate such division with one or more contiguous divisions, subject to the same sanitary authority, and the Local Government Board may order that such divisions shall constitute one division for the purposes of the said Act and of this Act.
6 Definition of ‘home farm.’
6. The expression ‘home farm’ shall not be held to apply to more than one farm occupied by the same owner within the area of any sanitary district, except in the case of two farms being occupied as aforesaid, neither of which exceeds one hundred acres.
7 Amendment of 46 & 47 Vict. c. 60. s. 5. as to certificate of sanitary officer.
(1)7. (1.) So much of the fifth section of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883, as enacts that a representation in pursuance of the said Acts, if made on the ground of sanitary defects, shall be accompanied by a certificate of a sanitary officer of the sanitary authority to which the representation is made in corroboration of the sanitary defects alleged, shall be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu and instead thereof it is hereby enacted as follows:
(2) (2.) The representation if made on the ground of sanitary defects may be accompanied by a certificate of a sanitary officer of the sanitary authority to which the representation is made, in corroboration of the sanitary defects alleged.
(3) (3.) In case any such representation made on the grounds aforesaid shall not be so accompanied, it shall be referred by the sanitary authority to such one or more of the sanitary officers of such authority as the authority may select for the purpose, and on any such representation being so referred to any sanitary officer or officers, it shall be the duty of such officer or officers to forthwith inspect the district to which such representation refers, and to report as to the correctness of such representation, and such officer or officers shall certify to the sanitary authority under his or their hand or hands as to the existence or non-existence of the sanitary defects alleged, and any such representation shall not be acted upon unless the sanitary authority is satisfied from the report of some one or more of such officers of the existence of the sanitary defects alleged.
8 Appeal from certificate of sanitary officer in certain cases.
(1)8. (1.) In case any sanitary officer shall...
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