Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894

54 Definitions

Expressions used in this Act have the same meaning, if not inconsistent with the context, as expressions used in the principal Act: Provided that, if not inconsistent with the context—

• The expression " police burgh " in the Local Government (Scotland) Acts, the [53 & 54 Vict. c. 60.] Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, the [54 & 55 Vict. c. 32.] Roads and Streets in Police Burghs (Scotland) Act, 1891, and the [55 & 56 Vict. c. 51.] Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 1892, has the meaning assigned to it in the [55 & 56 Vict. c. 55.] Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892:

• The expression " municipal register " includes the register of voters for the election in a police burgh of burgh commissioners :

• The expressions " municipal election, " " municipal electors, " and " municipal wards " include the election of burgh commissioners in a police burgh, the voters at, and the wards constituted for, such election respectively:

• The expression " town clerk " includes the clerk to the burgh commissioners of a police burgh :

• The expression " secretary " includes assistant secretary:

• The expression " parish, " means a parish quoad civilia which is at the passing of this Act or may hereafter be constituted a separate parish for the purposes of settlement and relief of the poor, and includes a combination of parishes within the meaning of section sixteen of the Poor Law (Scotland) Act, 1845 :

• The expression " burghal parish " means a parish which is wholly comprised within the boundaries of a burgh, and the expression " landward parish " means a parish no part of which is comprised within the boundaries of a burgh :

• The boundaries of burghs for the purposes of this Act shall be held to be the boundaries thereof as the same are or may be ascertained, fixed, or determined for police purposes, under the provisions contained in any general or local Act of Parliament, or, when no police assessment is levied, as the same are or may be ascertained, fixed, or determined for municipal purposes:

• The expression " burghal part of a parish " means any part of a parish comprised within the boundaries of a burgh, and the expression " landward part of a parish " means any part of a parish not comprised within the boundaries of a burgh :

• The expression " Public Health Acts " means the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and any Act or Acts amending the same :

• The expression " Education Acts " means the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, and any Act or Acts amending the same:

• The expression " burgh " means any royal or parliamentary burgh, and shall include the burgh of Coatbridge :

• The expression " ecclesiastical charity " includes a charity the endowment whereof is held for some one or more of the following purposes:—

  (a)

  For theological instruction or for the benefit of any theological institution; or

  (b)

  For the benefit of any ecclesiastical person or officer as such; or

  (c)

  For use, if a building, as a church, chapel, mission hall or room, or Sunday school, or otherwise by any particular church or denomination; or

  (d)

  For the maintenance, repair, or improvement of any such building as aforesaid, or for the maintenance of divine service therein; or

  (e)

  Otherwise for the benefit of any particular church or denomination, or of any members thereof as such :

Provided that where any endowment of a charity, other than a building held for any of: the purposes aforesaid, is held in part only for some of the purposes aforesaid, the charity, so far as that endowment is concerned, shall be an ecclesiastical charity within the meaning of this Act.