Metropolitan Streets Act 1867
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1867 c. 134 |
| Year | 1867 |
Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867
(30 & 31 Vict.) C A P. CXXXIV.
An Act for regulating the Traffic in the Metropolis, and for making Provision for the greater Security of Persons passing through the Streets, and for other Purposes.
[20th August 1867]
Whereas it is expedient to make further Provisions for regulating the Traffic in the Streets of the Metropolis, and for the greater Security of the Inhabitants thereof:
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:
Preliminary.
1 Short Title.
1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as ‘TheMetropolitan Streets Act, 1867.’
2 Definition of ‘the Metropolis.’
2. In this Act ‘the Metropolis’ shall mean the City ofLondon and all Parishes and Places for the Time being within the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
3 Definitions:
3. The following Expressions for the Purposes of this Act shall, unless the Context requires a different Construction, have the Meanings herein-after assigned to them; that is to say,
‘Magistrate’ shall, within the City ofLondon and the Liberties thereof, mean the Lord Mayor of the City of London , or any Alderman of the said City, sitting alone or with others at the Mansion House or Guildhall, and in the rest of the Metropolis shall mean any Metropolitan Police Magistrate:
‘Commissioner of Police,’ beyond the Limits of the City ofLondon and the Liberties thereof, shall mean ‘the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,’ and within such Limits ‘the Commissioner of the Police Force of the City of London and the Liberties thereof:’
‘Street’ shall include any Highway or other public Place, whether a Thoroughfare or not; and any of the Royal Parks, Gardens, and Possessions which are managed by the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, in pursuance of the Act of the Session of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-two, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed to be public Places:
The Word ‘Cattle’ shall include Bull, Ox, Cow, Heifer, Calf, Sheep, Goats, and Swine, also Horses, Mules, and Asses, when led in a String or loose.
4 General Limits of Act.
4. The Expression ‘the general Limits of this Act’ shall mean such Parts of the Metropolis as are enclosed in a Circle of which the Centre isCharing Cross , and the Radii are Four Miles in Length, as measured in a straight Line from Charing Cross :
The Expression ‘the special Limits of this Act’ shall mean such Streets and Portions of Streets as may be declared to be special Limits in manner herein-after provided.
PART I.
General Regulations.
5 Prohibition of scavengering except between certain Hours.
5. No Person shall, after the First Day ofJanuary One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, between the Hours of Ten in the Morning and Seven in the Evening, in such Streets as may be named by the Commissioner of Police, remove any Ashes, Dust, or Refuse from any House in any Street.
Any Person doing any Act in contravention to this Section shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
6 As to the Deposit of Goods in Streets within general Limits of Act.
6. No Goods or other Articles shall be allowed to rest on any Footway or other Part of a Street within the general Limits of this Act, or be otherwise allowed to cause Obstruction or Inconvenience to the Passage of the Public, for a longer Time than may be absolutely necessary for loading or unloading such Goods or other Articles.
Any Person doing any Act in contravention of this Section shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
For the Purposes of this Act, the Surface of any Space over which the Public have the Right of Way that intervenes in any Street within the general Limits of this Act between the Footway and the Carriageway shall, notwithstanding any Claim of any Person by Prescription or otherwise to the Deposit or Exposure for Sale of any Goods or other Articles on such Surface, be deemed to be Part of the Footway.
7 Cattle not to be driven through Streets within certain Hours.
7. No Person shall drive or conduct any Cattle through any Street within the general Limits of this Act between the Hours of Ten in the Morning and Seven in the Evening, except with the Permission of the Commissioner of the Police.
Any Person driving or conducting Cattle in contravention of this Section shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Shillings for each Head of Cattle so driven or conducted.
8 Regulation as to Metropolitan Stage Carriages.
8. Within the general Limits of this Act the Driver of a Metropolitan Stage Carriage shall not stop such Carriage for the Purpose of taking up or setting down Passengers at any Part of a Street except as near as may be to the Left or Near Side of the Roadway.
Any Driver of a Metropolitan Stage Carriage acting in contravention of this Section shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
9 Prohibition of Carriage of Advertisements, except those approved by Commissioner of Police.
9. No Picture, Print, Board, Placard, or Notice, except in such Form and Manner as may be approved of by the Commissioner of Police, shall, by way of Advertisement, be carried or distributed in any Street within the general Limits of this Act by any Person riding in any Vehicle, or on Horseback, or being on Foot.
Any Person doing any Act in contravention of this Section shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Shillings.
This Section shall not apply to the Sale of Newspapers.
Special Limits.
10 Power of Commissioner of Police to make special Limits.
10. The Commissioner of Police, with the Approval of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, may from Time to Time direct that any Street or Portion of a Street within the general Limits of this Act is to be deemed to be within the special Limits of this Act, and may from Time to Time take any Street or Portion of a Street out of the special Limits of this Act: Provided,
1st. That an Order made by the Commissioner of Police under this Section shall not come into effect until the Expiration of Ten Days from the Date of the Approval thereof by the Secretary of State:
2d. That Notice that an Order has been submitted for the Approval of the said Secretary of State under this Section in respect of any Street or Portion of a Street shall be affixed to a Lamp Post or otherwise placarded in some conspicuous Position in or near the Street or Portion of a Street to which such intended Order relates, and at the Principal Office of the Local Authority having Charge of such Street and of the Metropolitan Police and of the City Police respectively, for not less than Twenty-eight Days previously to the Approval of the said Secretary of State being given to the said Order:
3d. That a Copy of such Order when approved by the said Secretary of State shall be published in theLondon Gazette , and also affixed to a Lamp Post or otherwise placarded in some conspicuous Position in or near the Street or Portion of a Street to which the said Order relates, and shall always during the Time that the Order is in force be kept so affixed or placarded.
A Copy of theLondon Gazette containing any Order purporting to be made in pursuance of this Section shall be Evidence of the Contents of such Order and of the same having been duly made and approved in manner provided by this Act, and until the contrary is proved the Provisions of this Act with respect to the affixing or placarding of such Order shall be deemed to have been duly complied with.
11 Regulations within special Limits.
11. The Commissioner of Police, with the Approval of the said Secretary of State, and the Commissioner of City Police, with the Consent of the Court of Mayor and Aldermen, and subject to the Approval of the said Secretary of State, may from Time to Time make Regulations to be observed by all Persons within the special Limits of this Act with respect to the following Matters:
1. With respect to the Route to be taken by all Carts, Carriages, or other Vehicles, with Power to prohibit, any Cart, Carriage, or other Vehicle from coming into any Street or Part of a Street within the said Limits for the Purpose only of passing to its Destination in some other Street or Part of a Street:
2. With respect to the Line to be kept by Persons riding or driving:
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