Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878

38 Interpretation

In this Act—

• " County " has the same meaning as it has in the [25 & 26 Vict. c. 61.] Highway Acts, 1862 and [27 & 28 Vict. c. 101.] 1864, except that every liberty not being assessable to the county rate of the county or counties within which it is locally situate shall, for the purposes of this Act other than those relating to the formation and alteration of highway districts, and the transfer of the powers of a highway board, be deemed to be a separate county:

• " County authority " means the justices of a county in general or quarter sessions assembled:

• " Borough " means anyplace for the time being subject to the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An " Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations " in England and Wales," and the Acts amending the same :

• " Highway district " means a district constituted in pursuance of the [25 & 26 Vict. c. 61.] Highway Act, 1862, and the [27 & 28 Vict. c. 101.] Highway Act, 1864, or one of such Acts:

• " Highway board " means the highway board having jurisdiction within a highway district:

• " Highway parish " means a parish or place included or capable of being included in a highway district in pursuance of the [25 & 26 Vict. c. 61.] Highway Acts, 1862 and [27 & 28 Vict. c. 101.] 1864, or one of such Acts :

• " Highway authority " means as respects an urban sanitary district the urban sanitary authority, and as respects a highway district the highway board, and as respects a highway parish the surveyor or surveyors or other officers performing similar duties:

• " Rural sanitary district " and " rural sanitary authority " mean respectively the districts and authorities declared to be rural sanitary districts and authorities by the [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.] Public Health Act, 1875:

• " Urban sanitary district " and " urban sanitary authority " mean respectively the districts and authorities declared to be urban sanitary districts and authorities by the [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.] Public Health Act, 1875, except that for the purposes of this Act no borough having a separate court of quarter sessions, and no part of any such borough, shall be deemed to be or to be included hi any such district, and where part of a parish is included in such district for the purpose only of the repairs of the highways such part shall be deemed to be included in the district for the purposes of this Act:

• " The metropolis " means the parishes and places mentioned in the Schedules A, B, and C, annexed to the [18 & 19 Vict. c. 120.] Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and any parish to which such Act may be extended by Order in Council in manner in the said Act provided; also the city of London and the liberties of the said city :

• " Quarter sessions " includes general sessions :

• " Petty sessional division " means any division for the holding a special sessions formed or to be formed under the provisions of the Act of the ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Pourth, chapter forty-three, or any Act amending the same; also any division of a county, or of a riding, division, parts, or liberty of a county, having a separate commission of the peace, in and for which petty sessions or special sessions are usually held, whether in one or more place or places, in accordance with any custom, or otherwise than under the said last-mentioned Act; but does not include any city, borough, town corporate, or district constituted a petty sessional division by the Act of the session of the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, intituled " An Act for the holding " of petty sessions of the peace in boroughs, and for providing " places for the holding of such petty session in counties and " boroughs :"

• " Locomotive " means a locomotive propelled by steam or by other than animal power:

• " Person " includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate.