Markets And Fairs Clauses Act 1847

50 Annual account to be made up by the undertakers and transmitted to the clerk of the peace in England or Ireland, or to the sheriff clerk in Scotland, and to be open to inspection. Penalty on omission to prepare such account. U.K.

And with respect to the receipts and expenditure of the undertakers, be it enacted, that the undertakers shall in every year cause an annual account in abstract to be prepared, showing the whole receipt and expenditure of all rents and other monies levied by virtue of this or the special Act for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, or some other convenient day in each year, under the several distinct heads of receipt and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of such account, duly audited or certified by the chairman of the undertakers, and by the auditors, if any, and shall send a copy of the said account, free of charge, to the clerk of the peace in England and Ireland, and the sheriff clerk in Scotland, of the county in which the market or fair is situate, on or before the expiration of one month from the day on which such accounts shall end, which account shall be open to the inspection of the public at all seasonable hours, on payment of the sum of [F1 5p] for every such inspection; and if the undertakers omit to prepare or send such account as aforesaid, they shall forfeit for every such omission the sum of [F2 level 2 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

F2 Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reference to “clerk of the peace of the county” to be construed as reference to “proper officer of the county council”: Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(2) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(b)

C2 Reference to “sheriff clerk of the county” to be construed as reference to “sheriff clerk of sheriff court district concerned”: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. I para. 1(3)

C3 Reference to “Ireland” to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2

C4 Reference to “the chief clerk for the county court division in which the market or fair is situate” to be construed (N.I.) as a reference to “the chief clerk” (31.10.2016): Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 12(2) (with Sch. 8 para. 1)