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Quarry (Fencing) Act 1887

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1887 c. 19
Year1887


Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887

(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 19.

An Act to provide for the Fencing of Quarries.

[19th July 1887]

W HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the fencing of quarries in England and Wales:

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:

S-1 Short title.

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as theQuarry (Fencing) Act, 1887.

S-2 Commencement of Act.

2 Commencement of Act.

2. This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

S-3 Fencing of quarries.

3 Fencing of quarries.

3. Where any quarry dangerous to the public is in open or unenclosed land, within fifty yards of a highway or place of public resort dedicated to the public, and is not separated therefrom by a secure and sufficient fence, it shall be kept reasonably fenced for the prevention of accidents, and unless so kept shall be deemed to be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily in manner provided by the Public Health Act, 1875.

S-4 Interpretation.

4 Interpretation.

4. In this Act—

The term ‘quarry’ includes every pit or opening made for the purpose of getting stone, slates, lime, chalk, clay, gravel, or sand, but not any natural opening.

S-5 Extent of Act.

5 Extent of Act.

5. This Act shall not extend to Scotland and Ireland.

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