Metropolis Management Act 1855

LXIV Penalty on Officers, &c. being interested in Contracts, or exacting Fees.

No Officer or Servant of the Metropolitan Board, or of any District Board or any such Vestry, shall be in anywise concerned or interested in any Contract or, Work made with or executed for such, Board or Vestry; and if any such Officer or Servant be so concerned or interested, or, under colour of his Office or Employment, exact, take, or accept any Fee or Reward whatsoever, other than his proper Salary, Wages, and Allowances, he shall be incapable of afterwards holding or continuing in any Office or Employment under such Board or Vestry, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds, which may be recovered by any Person, with full Costs of Suit, by Action in any of the Superior Courts of Law ; provided that no Person, being a Shareholder of any Joint Stock Company, shall be prevented from being employed as an Officer or Servant by reason of any Contract between such Company and such Board or Vestry, or of any Work executed by such Company.