Durham Markets Company Act 1992

Amendments of Act of 1851

1 After section IX (Calls) there shall be inserted the following section:—

“IXA Limited liability

The liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them.”.

2 In section XXX (Power to hold Markets) the words “with the previous Consent and Concurrence of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Durham for that Purpose first had and obtained” and paragraph (b) of the proviso shall be omitted.

3 In section XXXI (Power to lease Stands, &c. in Markets) the words “not exceeding Seven Years” and “and not exceeding Twenty-one Years” shall be omitted.

4 In section XXXIII (Tolls to be taken for Markets) for the words “such Stallages, Rents, and Tolls as the Company shall from Time to Time appoint, not exceeding the several Stallages, Rents, and Tolls specified in Schedule (B.) to this Act” there shall be substituted the words “such charges as the Company may determine”, for the words “Stallages, Rents, and Tolls hereby authorized” there shall be substituted the words “charges hereby authorized” and for the words “several Stallages, Rents, or Tolls specified in the said Schedule (B.)” there shall be substituted the word “charges”.

5 In section XXXV (Tolls for Use of Market Place during Fairs) for the words from “such Stallages”, where those words first occur, to the end of the section there shall be substituted the words “such charges as the Company may determine”.

6 In section XXXVI (Tolls for weighing Carts, &c.) for the words from “such Tolls” to the end of the section there shall be substituted the words “such charges as the Company may determine”.

7 In section XXXVIII (Sales elsewhere than in Markets prohibited under Penalty of Forty Shillings) after the word “Sale” there shall be inserted the words “any articles, or shall arrange for or organise the sale or exposure for sale by any person of any articles”, for the words “any Articles” there shall be substituted the words “being Articles” and for the words “Twenty Pounds” there shall be substituted the words “level 3 on the standard scale”.

8 In section XL (The Company may collect or take a Lease of the other Market Tolls payable to the Corporation) for the words “Stallages, Rents, and Tolls specified in the Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed” there shall be substituted the word “charges”.