Local Stamp Act 1869
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Local Stamp Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 49.
An Act to enable Local Authorities to collect Fines and Fees by means of Stamps.
[2d August 1869]
Whereas it is expedient to authorize the collection of certain fees and flues hereafter mentioned by means of stamps:
Be it therefore 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 for all purposes as ‘TheLocal Stamp Act, 1869.’
2 Application of Act.
2. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland.
3 Interpretation of ‘Local Authority.’
3. For the purposes of this Act ‘Local Authority’ shall mean in any county, parts, liberty, or division of a county having a separate commission of the peace, the justices in general or quarter sessions assembled; in any borough subject to the jurisdiction of a council or other governing body, the council or other governing body for the borough.
4 Power to collect fees and penalties by stamps.
4. Whenever all the clerks of special and petty sessions and all the clerks of the justices of the peace within the jurisdiction of any local authority are paid in the whole or partly by salaries, by virtue of any order made under the Act of the session of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-five, it shall be lawful for any such local authority, if they think fit, notice having been given at a previous meeting of the local authority of such purpose, to order that, from and after a day to be named in such order, all or any of the fees, fines, and penalties payable to the treasurer of the county, parts, liberty, division, or borough respectively within the jurisdiction of such local authority, or to any person on account of such treasurer, shall be received by such treasurer or such person as aforesaid by means of stamps denoting the sums payable, and not in money, and to cause such dies to be made as may be required for the purpose of carrying into effect this Act; subject nevertheless to such rules as may from time to time be made and published by such local authority, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and with the assent, so far as relates to the pattern, colour, and form of stamps and dies, and the making and...
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