Metropolis Management Act 1855

Byelaws

CCII Power to Metropolitan Board of Works to make Byelaws. Penalty for Breach of Byelaws. Power to Justices to remit Penalties.

The Metropolitan Board of Works and every District Board and Vestry respectively may from Time to Time make, alter, and repeal Byelaws for all or any of the Purposes following; (that is to say,) for regulating the Business and Proceedings at their Meetings and of Committees appointed by them, the Appointment and Removal of their Officers and Servants, and the Duties, Conduct, and Remuneration of such Officers and Servants ; and the said Metropolitan Board may also from Time to Time make, alter, and repeal Byelaws for regulating the Plans, Level, Width, Surface Inclination, and the Material of the Pavement and Roadway of new Streets and Roads, and the Plans and Level of Sites for building, and for regulating the Dimensions, Form, and Mode of Construction, and the keeping, cleansing, and repairing, of the Pipes, Drains, and other Means of communicating with Sewers, and the Traps and Apparatus connected therewith; for the emptying, cleansing, closing, and filling up of Cesspools and Privies; and for other Works of cleansing, and of removing and disposing of Refuse, and for regulating the Form of Appeal and Mode of proceeding thereon ; and generally for carrying into effect the Purposes of this Act; and every such Board and Vestry may thereby impose such reasonable Penalties as they think fit, not exceeding Forty Shillings, for each Breach of such Byelaws, and in case of a continuing Offence a further Penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings for each Day after Notice of the Offence from the Board or Vestry t Provided always, that under every such Byelaw it shall be lawful for the Justices before whom any Penalty imposed thereby is sought to be recovered to order the whole or Part only of such Penalty to be paid, or to remit the whole Penalty: Provided also, that no Byelaws shall be repugnant to the Laws of England or to the Provisions of this Act; and that no Byelaw shall be of any Force or Effect unless and until the same be submitted to and confirmed at a subsequent Meeting of the Board or Vestry: Provided also, that no Penalty shall be imposed by any such Byelaw unless the same be approved by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

CCIII Publication of Byelaws. Evidence of Byelaws.

All Byelaws made and confirmed as aforesaid in pursuance of this Act shall be printed, and hung up in the principal Office of the Board or Vestry, and be open to public Inspection without Payment, and Copies thereof shall be delivered to any Person applying for the same, on Payment of such Sum, not exceeding Twopence, as the Board or Vestry shall direct; and such Byelaws, when so published, shall be binding upon and be observed by all Parties, and shall be sufficient to justify all Parties acting under the same; and the Production of a printed Copy of such Byelaws, authenticated by the Seal of the Board or Vestry, shall be Evidence of the Existence, and of the due making, Confirmation, and Publication of such Byelaws, in all Prosecutions under the same, without adducing Proof of such Seal or of the Fact of such Confirmation or Publication of such Byelaws.