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Commissioners Clauses Act 1847

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  1. Introductory TextNext Match

  2. 1. Extent of Act.Previous MatchNext Match

  3. Interpretations in this ActPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. And with respect to the construction of this Act, and...

    2. 2.The special Act: Prescribed: The undertaking: The commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 3.Interpretations in this and the special Act: Number: Gender: Person: Lands: Month: Superior courts: Justice: Two justices: Sheriff: Clerk: The town.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 4.Short title of this Act.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 5. Interpretations in this ActPrevious MatchNext Match

  4. CommissionersPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 6. Joint owners or occupiers when qualified eligible as commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 7. Same property not to give two qualifications.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 8. No bankrupt or insolvent to be a commissioner.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 9. No person holding office or concerned in a contract to be a commissioner.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 10. Shareholders in companies established by Act of Parliament not disqualified by reason of contracts.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 11. Commissioner not incapable of acting as a justice.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 12. Declaration to be made by commissioners before acting.Previous MatchNext Match

    8. 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous MatchNext Match

    9. 14. Declaration to be taken at the first meeting.Previous MatchNext Match

    10. 15. Penalty on commissioner, not being qualified, acting. Previous MatchNext Match

    11. 16. Commissioners neglecting to act to cease to be one.Previous MatchNext Match

  5. Election and rotation of commissionersPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 17. One-third of commissioners elected by Ratepayers and owners to go out of office every three years.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 18. Commissioners eligible to be re-elected.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 19. Mode of supplying occasional vacancies.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 20. Manner of making the rotation list.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 21. Annual meeting for election of commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 22. Returning officer at elections.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 23. Returning officer to appoint poll clerks.Previous MatchNext Match

    8. 24. Scale of votes of owners and occupiers.Previous MatchNext Match

    9. 25. Electors to vote in ward where their property qualification is situate but not to vote for more than one ward.Previous MatchNext Match

    10. 26. Commissioners may cause alphabetical list of voters to be made, and may defray the expence out of the rates.Previous MatchNext Match

    11. 27. Returning officer may summon rate collectors, &c. to attend the election. Penalty on rate collector, &c. for neglect.Previous MatchNext Match

    12. 28. Mode of voting at elections.Previous MatchNext Match

    13. 1.Are you the person assessed as A.B., on the [ ]...Previous MatchNext Match

    14. 2.Have you already voted at the present election? [or, if...Previous MatchNext Match

    15. 29. Poll may be closed if no voting paper be tendered for one hour.Previous MatchNext Match

    16. 30. Returning officer to examine poll books and declare the poll.Previous MatchNext Match

    17. 31. Voting papers and poll books to be open to inspection for six months after election.Previous MatchNext Match

    18. 32. Manner of proceeding if any person is elected a commissioner in more than one ward.Previous MatchNext Match

    19. 33. If no election day appointed, it may be made on a subsequent day.Previous MatchNext Match

    20. 34. Election not to be void for want of title in presiding officer.Previous MatchNext Match

    21. 35. Expences of presiding officer to be paid out of rates levied. Previous MatchNext Match

  6. Meetings of commissionersPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 36. First meeting of the commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 37. Election of chairmen of meetings.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 38. Manner of voting.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 39. Quorum of commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 40. Commissioners to hold annual and monthly meetings.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 41. Meetings of commissioners may be adjourned from time to time.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 42. Monthly meetings to be held for transacting the ordinary business under this and the special Act.Previous MatchNext Match

    8. 43. No extraordinary business shall be transacted at monthly meetings, unless notice be given.Previous MatchNext Match

    9. 44. No resolution of commissioners to be revoked at a subsequent meeting unless under certain circumstances.Previous MatchNext Match

    10. 45. As to the holding of special meetings.Previous MatchNext Match

    11. 46. Notice to be given of things to be done by the commissioners by special order only.Previous MatchNext Match

    12. 47. How notices of meetings of commissioners are to be given.Previous MatchNext Match

    13. 48. Expences of meetings.Previous MatchNext Match

    14. 49. Power of commissioners to appoint committees.Previous MatchNext Match

    15. 50. Quorum of committee.Previous MatchNext Match

    16. 51. Acts of the commissioners not to be invalidated by reason of vacancies.Previous MatchNext Match

    17. 52. Informalities in appointment of commissioners not to invalidate proceedings.Previous MatchNext Match

    18. 53. Commissioners may provide public offices, &c.Previous MatchNext Match

    19. 54. Commissioners to provide daily attendance at their office to receive notices, &c.Previous MatchNext Match

    20. 55. Proceedings to be entered in a book, and, when signed, shall be received in evidence.Previous MatchNext Match

  7. ContractsPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 56. Power to commissioners to enter into contracts.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 57. Notice to be given of contracts to the amount of 100 l. or upwardsPrevious MatchNext Match

    3. 58. Commissioners may compound for breach of contract.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 59. As to the conveyance of lands by the commissioners. Receipt under seal to be a sufficient discharge.Previous MatchNext Match

  8. Legal proceedingsPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 60. Commissioners not to be personally liable for acts done in the capacity of a commissioner. Commissioners to be indemnified for acts done in the execution of their office.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 61. Actions or suits to be brought in the name of any two commissioners or their clerk.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 62. Executions to be levied on the goods belonging to commissioners by virtue of their office only.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 63. Commissioners and clerk to be reimbursed all damages, &c.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 64. How indictments to be preferred.Previous MatchNext Match

  9. OfficersPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 65. Power to commissioners to appoint clerk and other officers, and remove them from time to time.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 66. Offices of clerk and treasurer not to be held by same person.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 67. Officer taking fees other than those allowed to lose his office, and forfeit 50 l.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 68. Security to be taken from all officers intrusted with money.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 69. Collectors to pay over monies within seven days to the treasurer.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 70. Officers to account.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 71. Summary recovery against parties failing to account.Previous MatchNext Match

    8. 72. Officers refusing to make out account and deliver up documents, &c. may be committed to prison.Previous MatchNext Match

    9. 73. Where officer about to abscond, a warrant may be issued in the first instance.Previous MatchNext Match

    10. 74. Proceedings against officers not to discharge sureties.Previous MatchNext Match

  10. MortgagesPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 75. Form of mortgage.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 76. Register of mortgages to be kept and to be open to inspection.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 77. Transfer of mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 78. Register of transfers to be kept.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 79. Interest on mortgages to be paid half-yearly.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 80. Power to borrow money at a lower rate of interest to pay off securities at a higher rate.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 81. Repayment of money borrowed at a time and place agreed upon.Previous MatchNext Match

    8. 82. Repayment of money borrowed when no time or place has been agreed upon.Previous MatchNext Match

    9. 83. Interest to cease on expiration of notice to pay off a mortgage debt.Previous MatchNext Match

    10. 84. Monies borrowed on security of rates to be paid off in a limited period.Previous MatchNext Match

    11. 85. Mode of paying off mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match

    12. 86. Arrears of interest, when to be enforced by appointment of a receiver. Arrears of principal and interest.Previous MatchNext Match

    13. 87. As to the appointment of receiver.Previous MatchNext Match

    14. 88. Account books to be open to the inspection of mortgagees.Previous MatchNext Match

  11. AccountsPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 89. Accounts to be kept of receipts and disbursements, which shall be open for inspection. Penalty for refusal.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 90. Statement of accounts to be prepared and to be open for inspection. Copies of such statement to be furnished.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 91. Accounts to be examined and settled at the annual meeting.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 92. Auditors to be appointed. Qualifications of auditors.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 93. Auditors to inspect accounts, and may appeal against part of the same, if they think fit.Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 94. The court may order payment of the costs of the appeal.Previous MatchNext Match

    7. 95. Annual account to be made up 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. Previous MatchNext Match

  12. ByelawsPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 96. Power to make byelaws for regulating the conduct of the officers, &c. of the commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 97. Fines for breach of such byelaws.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 98. Byelaws to be so framed as that penalties may be mitigated.Previous MatchNext Match

  13. NoticesPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 99. Service of notices upon commissioners.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 100. Notices by advertisement.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 101. Authentication of notices and orders.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 102. Proof of debts in bankruptcy.Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 103.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous MatchNext Match

  14. Recovery of damages and penaltiesPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 104. Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845, as to damages, &c. to be incorporated with this and the special Act.Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 105. All things required to be done by two justices in England and Ireland may, in certain cases, be done by one, and in Scotland by the sheriff, &c.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 106. Penalties &c., imposed in respect of any offence committed within the Metropolitan Police District to be paid to the receiver, and applied under 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71.Previous MatchNext Match

    4. 107.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous MatchNext Match

    5. 108.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous MatchNext Match

    6. 109. Nothing in this or the special Act to affect the rights of the crown.Previous MatchNext Match

  15. Access to special ActPrevious MatchNext Match

    1. 110. Copies of special Act, to be kept by commissioners at their office, and deposited with the clerks of the peace, &c. and to be open to inspection. Previous MatchNext Match

    2. 111. Penalty on commissioners failing to keep or deposit such copies.Previous MatchNext Match

    3. 112.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous MatchNext Match

  16. SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers

    1. SCHEDULE (A)Previous MatchNext Match

      Voting paperPrevious MatchNext Match

    2. SCHEDULE (B)Previous MatchNext Match

      Form of MortgagePrevious MatchNext Match

      1. By virtue of [here name the special Act], we [here...

      2. +Note—As regards a document granted under Scots law, subscription of...

    3. SCHEDULE (C)Previous MatchNext Match

      Form of Transfer of MortgagePrevious MatchNext Match

      1. I A.B. of  , in consideration of the sum of...

      2. +Note—As regards a document granted under Scots law, subscription of...

    4. SCHEDULE (D)Previous MatchNext Match

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