Public Health Acts
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1890 c. 59 |
| Year | 1890 |
Public Health Acts.
(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 59.
An Act to amend the Public Health Acts.
[18th August 1890]
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:
PART I.—GENERAL.
1 Division of Act into parts.
1. This Act is divided into parts as follows:—
Part I.—General.
Part II.—Telegraph, &c. wires.
Part III.—Sanitary and other provisions.
Part IV.—Music and dancing.
Part V.—Stock.
2 Short title, construction, and extent of Act.
(1)2.—(1.) This Act shall be construed as one with the Public Health Acts.
(2) (2.) Part One of this Act shall extend to England and Wales and Ireland, exclusive of the administrative county of London. Parts Two, Three, Four, and Five, shall extend to any district in which they are respectively adopted under the provisions of this Act.
(3) (3.) This Act may be cited as the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, and this Act and the Public Health Acts may be cited together as the Public Health Acts.
3 Adoption of Act by local authorities.
3. The following provisions shall have effect with regard to the adoption of the parts of this Act, which are adoptive, by local authorities:—
(1) (1.) An urban authority may adopt all or any of such parts.
(2) (2.) A rural authority may adopt Part Three so far as it is declared by this Act to be applicable to such authority, without prejudice to the provisions of this Act relating to the investing of rural authorities with urban powers.
(3) (3.) The adoption shall be by a resolution passed at a meeting of the local authority; and one calendar month at least before such meeting special notice of the meeting and of the intention to propose such resolution shall be given to every member of the authority, and the notice shall be deemed to have been duly given to a member of it, if it is either—
(a .) Given in the mode in which notices to attend meetings of the authority are usually given; or
(b .) Where there is no such mode, then signed by the clerk of the authority, and delivered to the member or left at his usual or last known place of abode in England, or forwarded by post in a prepaid letter, addressed to the member at his usual or last known place of abode in England.
(4) (4.) Such resolution shall be published by advertisement in some one or more newspapers circulating within the district of the authority and by causing notice thereof to be affixed to the principal doors of every church and chapel in the place to which notices are usually fixed, and otherwise in such manner as the authority think sufficient for giving notice thereof to all persons interested, and shall come into operation at such time not less than one month after the first publication of the advertisement of the resolution as the authority may by the resolution fix, and upon its coming into operation such parts of the Act as are adopted shall extend to that district.
(5) (5.) A copy of the resolution shall be sent—
(a .) Where any part of the Act is adopted, to the Local Government Board;
(b .) Where Part Two is adopted, to the Board of Trade;
(c .) Where Part Four is adopted, to a Secretary of State.
(6) (6.) A copy of the advertisement shall be conclusive evidence of the resolution having been passed, unless the contrary be shown; and no objection to the effect of the resolution, on the ground that notice of the intention to propose the same was not duly given, or on the ground that the resolution was not sufficiently published, shall be made after three months from the date of the first publication of the advertisement.
4 Expenses of local authority.
4. All expenses incurred or payable by a local authority in the execution of this Act, and not otherwise provided for, may be charged and defrayed in the case of an urban authority as part of the expenses incurred by them in the execution of the Public Health Acts, and in the case of a rural authority as part of their general expenses under the Public Health Acts.
5 Power to Local Government Board to extend Act torural districts.
5. The Local Government Board may declare that any of the provisions contained in any part of this Act which are not in force in any rural sanitary district shall be in force in that district, or any part thereof, and may invest a rural sanitary authority with any of the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities, and obligations which an urban authority may acquire by adoption of any part of this Act, in like manner, and subject to the same provisions as they are enabled to invest rural sanitary authorities with the powers of urban sanitary authorities under the provisions of section two hundred and seventy-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, and in such case the date of the declaration of the Local Government Board under this section shall be substituted for the date of the adoption of this Act or any part thereof.
6 Legal proceedings, &c.
6. Offences under this Act may be prosecuted, and penalties, forfeitures, costs, and expenses recovered in like manner and subject to the same provisions as offences which may be prosecuted and penalties, forfeitures, costs, and expenses which may be recovered in a summary manner under the Public Health Acts.
7 Appeals to quarter sessions.
(1)7.—(1.) Any person aggrieved—
(a .) By any order, judgment, determination, or requirement of a local authority under this Act;
(b .) By the withholding of any order, certificate, licence, consent, or approval, which may be made, granted, or given by a local authority under this Act;
(c .) By any conviction or order of a court of summary jurisdiction under any provision of this Act;
may appeal in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a court of quarter sessions.
(2) (2.) This section shall not apply in cases where there is an appeal to the Local Government Board under section two hundred and sixty-eight of the Public Health Act, 1875.
8 More than one sum in one summons, &c.
8. Any information, complaint, warrant, or summons made or issued for the purposes of this Act, or of the Public Health Acts, may contain in the body thereof or in a schedule thereto several sums.
9 Byelaws.
9. All the provisions with respect to byelaws contained in sections one hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, and any enactment amending or extending those sections, shall apply to all byelaws from time to time made by a local authority under the powers of this Act, except byelaws made under Part Two of this Act.
10 Powers of Act cumulative.
(1)10.—(1.) All powers given to a local authority under this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred upon such local authority by any Act of Parliament, law, or custom, and such other powers may be exercised in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.
(2) (2.) Nothing in this Act shall exempt any person from any penalty to which he would have been liable if this Act had not been passed, provided that no person shall be liable to pay, except in the case of a daily penalty, more than one penalty in respect of the same offence.
11 Interpretation.
(1)11.—(1.) The expression ‘ashpit’ in the Public Health Acts and in this Act shall for the purposes of the execution of those Acts and of this Act include any ashtub or other receptacle for the deposit of ashes, fcal matter, or refuse.
(2) (2.) A street or part of a street which has been asphalted or paved with wood, tar paving, or artificial stone, or other improved paving of any kind shall be deemed to have been paved within the meaning of any provision of the Public Health Acts.
Provided that a street shall not be deemed to be paved to the satisfaction of an urban authority unless it is paved with such kind as well as with such quality of paving as the local authority shall consider suitable for the street.
(3) (3.) In this Act if not inconsistent with the context—
The expression ‘local authority’ means an urban sanitary authority or a rural sanitary authority, as the case may be, under the Public Health Acts, and the expressions ‘urban authority’ and ‘rural authority’ mean respectively an urban sanitary authority and a rural sanitary authority under those Acts.
The expressions ‘urban sanitary district’ and ‘rural sanitary district’ mean respectively an urban sanitary district and a rural sanitary district under the Public Health Acts.
The expression ‘sanitary...
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