Public Health Act 1875

MARKETS AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

166 Urban authority may provide markets.

Where an urban authority are a local board or improvement commissioners they shall have power, with the consent of the owners and ratepayers of their district, expressed by resolution passed in manner provided by schedule III. to this Act, and where the urban authority are a town council they shall have power, with the consent of two thirds of their number, to do the following things, or any of them, within their district:

• To provide a market place, and construct a market house and other conveniences, for the purpose of holding markets :

• To provide houses and places for weighing carts :

• To make convenient approaches to such market :

• To provide all such matters and things as may be necessary for the convenient use of such market :

• To purchase or take on lease land, and public or private rights in markets and tolls for any of the foregoing purposes :

• To take stallages rents and tolls in respect of the use by any person of such market :

But no market shall be established in pursuance of this section so as to interfere with any rights powers or privileges enjoyed within the district by any person without his consent.

167 Incorporation of provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c.14 as to markets.

For the purpose of enabling any urban authority to establish or to regulate markets, there shall be incorporated with this Act the provisions of the Market's and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847, in so far as the same relate to markets ; that is to say,

• With respect to the holding of the market or fair, and the protection thereof ; and

• With respect to the weighing goods and carts ; and

• With respect to the stallages rents and tolls:

Provided that all tolls leviable by an urban authority in pursuance of this section shall be approved by the Local Government Board.

An urban authority may with respect to any market belonging to them make byelaws for any - of the purposes mentioned in section forty-two of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847, so far as those purposes relate to markets, and printed copies of any byelaws so made shall be conspicuously exhibited in the market.

168 Power for sale of undertaking of market company to urban authority.

Any urban authority may purchase, and the directors of any market company, in pursuance, in the case of a company registered under the Companies Act, 1862, of a special resolution of the members passed in manner provided by that Act, and in the case of any other company, of a resolution passed by a majority of three fourths in number and value of the members present, either personally or by proxy, at a meeting specially convened with notice of the business to be transacted, may sell and transfer to any urban authority, on such terms as may be agreed on between the company and the urban authority, all the rights powers and privileges and all or any of the markets premises and things which at the time of such purchase are the property of the company, but subject to all liabilities attached to the same at the time of such purchase.

169 Power to provide slaughter-houses.

Any urban authority may, if they think fit, provide slaughter-houses, and they shall make byelaws with respect to the management and charges for the use of any slaughter-houses so provided.

For the purpose of enabling any urban authority to regulate slaughter-houses within their district the provisions of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to slaughter-houses shall be incorporated with this Act.

Nothing in this section shall prejudice or affect any rights powers or privileges of any persons incorporated by any Local Act passed before the passing of the Public Health Act, 1848, for the purpose of making and maintaining slaughter-houses.

170 Notice to be affixed on slaughter-houses.

The owner or occupier of any slaughter-house licensed or registered under this Act shall, within one month after the licensing or registration of the premises, affix, and shall keep undefaced and legible on some conspicuous place on the premises, a notice with the words " Licensed slaughter-house," or " Registered slaughterhouse," as the case may be.

Any person who makes default in this respect, or who neglects or refuses to affix or renew such notice after requisition in writing from the urban authority, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every such offence, and of ten shillings for every day during which such offence continues after conviction.