of Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts in the noon, to answer the Com[or by plaint this Day made to me by on behalf of] [naming the Local Authority], that the Sum of Pounds, being Costs and Expenses incurred by you under and in relation to a certain Complaint touching [describe the Nuisance], and an Order of [describe the Person making the Order] duly made in pursuance of the Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855, [if Penalties are due, add, and also the Sum of being the Amount of Penalties payable by you for Disobedience of the said Order,] remains unpaid and due from you. To Given under the Hand of me, J.P., Esquire, One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in and for the [Jurisdiction stated in the Margin] [or One of the Magistrates of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, or Stipendiary Magistrate of of eight hundred and ] the Day in the Year of our Lord One thousand FORM (I.) Order for Payment of Costs, Expenses, and Penalties. Sec. 20.1 [name the Person on whom the Order is made]. WHEREAS Complaint has been made before us [or me] for that [recite Cause of Complaint.] County, &c. to wit. And whereas the said [naming the Person against whom the Complaint is made] has this Day appeared before us the said Justices Tor before me the said Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, or as the Case may be,] to answer this Matter of the said Complaint: [Or, in case the Party charged do not appear, say], of And whereas it has been this Day satisfactorily proved to us [or me] that a true Copy of the Summons requiring the said [naming Person charged] to appear before us [or me] this Day hath been duly served according to the said Act: Now, having heard the Matter of the said Complaint, we [or I] do adjudge the said [naming the Person charged] to pay forthwith [or by Instalments of payable respectively on or before the to the said [naming the Person or Local Authority to whom the Costs adjudged are payable], the Sum for Costs in this Behalf, and to [naming the Person or Authority to whom the Expenses are payable] the Sum for Expenses in this Behalf, [if Penalties are due, add, and the Sum of for Penalties incurred in relation to the Premises,] together with the Sum of being the Charges attending the Application for this Order and Proceedings thereon; and if the said several Sums, amounting in the whole [or if any One of the said Instalments] be not paid within Fourteen Days after the same is due as aforesaid, we [or I] hereby order that the same be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said of to of sufficient Distress in that Behalf adjudge the said and in default to be Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts be imprisoned in the Common Gaol [or House of Correction, as the Case may be,] at in the said County [or as the Case may be,] for the Space of such Time, not exceeding Three Calendar Months, as the Justices may think fit, unless the said several Sums [or Sum], and all Costs and Charges of the said Distress [and of the Commitment and carrying of the said to the said House of Correction or Common Gaol, or as the Case may be,] shall be sooner paid. Given under our [or my] Hands, this of Day in the Year of our Lord One thousand in the [County, eight hundred and at or as the Case may be,] aforesaid. FORM (K.) Warrant of Distress. Sec. 20. · To the Constable of and to all other Peace Officers in the said County [or as the Case may be.] WHEREAS on last past Complaint was made before the undersigned, Two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of [or as the Case may be] [or a Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, or Stipendiary Magistrate, as the Case may be] for that [&c. as in the Order]; and thereupon having considered the Matter of the said Complaint, we [or I] adjudged the said. [set out from Form K. Order for Distress and And whereas the Time in and by the said Order appointed for the Payment of the said several Sums of the Adjudication of Payment, and the for Imprisonment in default of Distress]: and hath elapsed, but the said hath not paid the same or any Part thereof within Fourteen Days after the Date fixed by the Order for such Payment, but therein hath made Default: These are therefore to command you in Her Majesty's Name forthwith to make Distress of the Goods and Chattels of the said A.B.; and if within the Space of Days after the making of such Distress the said last-mentioned Sums, together with the reasonable Charges of taking and keeping the said Distress, shall not be paid, that then you do sell the said Goods and Chattels so by you distrained, and do pay the Money arising from such Sale over to the Clerk of the Justices of the Peace for the Division of in the said [County, or as the Case may be], that he may pay and apply the same as by Law directed, and may render the Overplus, if any, on Demand, to the said ; and if no such Distress can be found, then that you certify the same unto me, to the end that such Proceedings may be had therein as to the Law doth appertain. Given under our [or my] Hands and Seal, this Day of eight hundred and in the Year of our Lord One thousand [County] aforesaid. (L.S.) Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts Consolidation and Amendment. FORM (L.) Return of Proceedings under Nuisances Removal Act, 1855, by the [name the Local Authority at length]. From 25th March 1855 to 25th March 1856. Dated this 26th Day of March 1856. [To be signed by the Chairman of the Local Authority.] CA P. CXXII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Construction of HEREAS it is expedient that the Laws relating to Buildings in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood should be 'amended? Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,) PRELIMINARY. I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Metro- Short Title. politan Building Act, 1855." II. This Act shall, except in Cases where it is otherwise Commenceexpressly provided, come into operation on the First Day of ment of Act. January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. of certain III. In the Construction of this Act (if not inconsistent with Interpretation the Context) the following Terms shall have the respective Meanings herein-after assigned to them; (that is to say,) "The Treasury" shall mean the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury: "Public Building" shall mean every Building used as a Church, Chapel, or other Place of Public Worship; also every Building used for Purposes of public Instruction; also every Building used as a College, public Hall, Hospital, Theatre, public 18 & 19 VICT. Concert Y y Terms in this Act to extend to all Places within Limits defined by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. Metropolitan Buildings. Concert Room, public Ball Room, public Lecture Room, public Exhibition Room, or for any other public Purposes: "External Wall" shall apply to every outer Wall or vertical Enclosure of any Building not being a Party Wall: "Party Wall" shall apply to every Wall used or built in order to be used as a Separation of any Building from any other Building, with a view to the same being occupied by different Persons: "Cross Wall" shall apply to every Wall used or built in order to be used as a Separation of one Part of any Building from another Part of the same Building, such Building being wholly in One Occupation: "Party Structure" shall include Party Walls, and also Partitions, Arches, Floors, and other Structures separating Buildings, Stories or Rooms which belong to different Owners, or which are approached by distinct Staircases or separate Entrances from without: The "Area" of every Building shall be deemed to be the Superficies of a horizontal Section of such Building made at the Point of its greatest Surface, including the External Walls and such Portion of the Party Walls as belong to the Building, but excluding any attached Building the Height of which does not exceed the Height of the Ground Story: "The Base of the Wall" shall mean the Course immediately above the Footings: "Owner" shall apply to every Person in possession or receipt either of the whole or of any Part of the Rents or Profits of any Land or Tenement, or in the Occupation of such Land or Tenement other than as a Tenant from Year to Year or for any less Term, or as a Tenant at Will: "Builder" shall apply to and include the Master Builder or other Person employed to execute or who actually executes any Work upon any Building: "District Surveyor" shall mean every such Surveyor who is appointed in pursuance of this Act, or whose Appointment is hereby confirmed, and shall include any Deputy or Assistant Surveyor appointed under this Act: In all Cases in which the Name of an Officer having local Jurisdiction in respect of his Office is referred to without Mention of the Locality to which the Jurisdiction extends, such Reference is to be understood to indicate the Officer having Jurisdiction in that Place within which is situate the Building or other Subject Matter or any Part thereof to which such Reference applies: "Person" shall include "a Body Corporate." LIMITS OF ACT. IV. This Act shall extend to all Places within the Limits of the Metropolis as defined by an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the better local Management of the Metropolis, and to all other Places to which such last-mentioned Act may be extended, unless such Places are, in making such Extension Metropolitan Buildings (Part I. Building Regulations). Extension, expressly excepted from the Operation of this Act; V. This Act shall be divided into Five Parts: Division of (1.) The First Part relating to the Regulation and Super- Act. (2.) The Second Part relating to Dangerous Structures: (4.) The Fourth Part relating to Miscellaneous Provisions : PART I. REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF BUILDINGS. VI. The following Buildings and Works shall be exempt from the Operation of the First Part of this Act: Bridges, Piers, Jetties, Embankment Walls, Retaining Walls, The Mansion House, Guildhall, and Royal Exchange of the The Offices and Buildings of the Governor and Company of The Offices and Buildings of the Honourable East India Greenwich Hospital and the Buildings in the Parish of All County Lunatic Asylums, Sessions Houses, and other The Erections and Buildings authorized by an Act passed in PART I. Regulation and Supervision of Buildings. Buildings, &c. herein named exempt from |