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Markets And Fairs Clauses Act 1847
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42 Byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named. Byelaws may be repealed or altered from time to time.U.K.
The undertakers may from time to time make such byelaws as they think fit for all or any of the following purposes; (that is to say,)
For regulating the use of the market place and fair, and the buildings, stalls, pens, and standings therein, and for preventing nuisances or obstructions therein, or in the immediate approaches thereto:
For fixing the days, and the hours during each day, on which the market or fair shall be held:
For inspection of the slaughter-houses, and for keeping the same in a cleanly and proper state, and for removing filth and refuse at least once in every twenty-four hours, and for requiring that they be provided with a sufficient supply of water, and preventing the exercise of cruelty therein:
For regulating the carriers resorting to the market or fair, and fixing the rates for carrying articles carried therefrom within the limits of the special Act:
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For preventing the sale or exposure for sale of unwholesome provisions in the market or fair:
And the undertakers may from time to time, as they shall think fit, repeal or alter any such byelaws; provided always, that such byelaws shall not be repugnant to the laws of that part of the United Kingdom where the same are to have effect, or to the provisions of this or the special Act, or of any Act incorporated therewith; and such byelaws shall be reduced to writing under the common seal of the undertakers, if they be a body corporate, or the hands and seals of two of the undertakers, if they be not a body corporate, and, if affecting other persons than the officers and servants of the undertakers, shall be printed and published as herein provided.
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F1Words repealed by Weights and Measures Act 1963 (c. 31), Sch. 9 Pt. II
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