Sect. 15. operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,1 and shall continue in operation until the next register of county electors comes into operation.

In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act or the enactments thereby applied, the clerk of the peace in a county may, if he thinks fit, instead of directing the occupiers' list to be made out in three divisions as provided by the Registration of Electors Acts, direct the overseers to make supplemental lists containing the names which would otherwise be contained in division two and division three of the occupiers' list respectively, and the names so contained in the supplemental list corresponding to division two shall be struck by the revising barrister out of division one of the list, and the supplemental list corresponding to division two or division three shall be treated as if it were division two or three of the said list, as the case may be.

SCHEDULE.

Section 3.

Registration Act, 1885.

DEFINITION OF TEN POUNDS OCCUPATION QUALIFICATION.

Ten pounds A person entitled to be registered as a voter in respect of a ten occupation pounds occupation qualification in a borough, municipal or parliaqualification. mentary

(a.) must during the whole twelve months immediately preceding
the fifteenth day of July have been an occupier as owner or
tenant of some land or tenement in a parish [or township]
of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds; and
(b.) must have resided in or within seven miles of the borough
during six months immediately preceding the fifteenth day
of July; and

(c.) Such person, or some one else must during the said twelve
months have been rated to all poor rates made in respect of
such land or tenement; and

(d.) All sums due in respect of the said land or tenement on account of any poor rate made and allowed during the twelve months immediately preceding the fifth day of January next before the registration, or on account of any assessed taxes due before the said fifth day of January, must have been paid on or before the twentieth day of July.

1 The first election of county councillors under the L. G. Act is to be in January, 1889, on such day not earlier than the 14th of January, as the returning officer may fix (L. G. Act, sec. 103 (1), ante).

2 See sec. 4, ante.

If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement is such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, each of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter.

If a person has occupied in the borough different lands or tenements of the requisite value in immediate succession during the said twelve months, he is entitled in respect of the occupation thereof to be registered as a voter in the parish [or township] in which the last occupied land or tenement is situate.

Sect. 1.

APPENDIX I. A.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (BOROUGH FUNDS)

АСТ.

(35 & 36 VICT. c. 91.)

L. G. A., 1888, An Act to authorise the application of Funds of Municipal Corporations and other governing bodies in certain cases. [10th August 1872.]

Бес. 15.

c. 50.

20 & 21 Vict. WHEREAS by the Act passed in the session holden in the twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Acts concerning the Municipal Corporations, the trustees acting under any Act of Parliament for supplying any borough, or any district within or in certain cases beyond the limits of a borough, with water or gas, or having powers for providing or maintaining any cemetery or market in or for any borough, or otherwise improving the same, are authorised and empowered to transfer to the body corporate of such borough all their rights, estates, properties, and liabilities:

Interpretation of terms.

And whereas by the ninety-second section of the Act passed in the session holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, in each borough the annual proceeds of all property and hereditaments belonging to the body corporate, and fines and rates levied in the borough, are directed to form the borough fund, and such fund is directed to be applied in the payment of certain salaries and certain expenses and the expenses necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act, and the surplus (if any) of such fund is directed to be applied, under the direction of the council, for the public benefit of the inhabitants and the improvement of the borough:

And whereas the Public Health Act, 1848, the Local Government Act, 1858, and various Local Acts of Parliament, have conferred powers of improving, cleansing, paving, lighting, and otherwise governing places or districts upon boards of health, commissioners, trustees, or other persons:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the powers of governing bodies so as to enable them to apply the borough or other funds under the control of such governing body towards such costs, charges, and expenses as may be incurred for the purposes and in the manner herein provided:

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:

1. The term "governing body" in this Act shall mean the council of any municipal borough,1 the board of health, local board, commis

note.

This term will now include the London Council: L. G. A., sec. 15, ante, and

sioners, trustees, or other body acting under any general or local Sect. 1. Act of Parliament for the management, improvement, cleansing, paving, lighting, and otherwise governing places or districts, and the term "district" shall mean the borough, place, township, or district within which the governing body may for the time being have jurisdiction [Provided, however, that in the borough of Cambridge, in any matters affecting the constitution, power, or functions of the Board of Cambridge Improvement Commissioners, as defined in the several Acts of Parliament relating thereto, the term "governing body" shall mean such board of improvement commissioners, and not the council of the borough of Cambridge.]

other pro

habitants to

2. When in the judgment of a governing body in any district it is Costs of proexpedient for such governing body to [promote or 1] oppose any local moting or and personal Bill or Bills in Parliament, or to prosecute or defend opposing Parany legal proceedings necessary for the promotion or protection of liamentary and the interests of the inhabitants of the district, it shall be lawful for ceedings for such governing body to apply the borough fund, borough rate, or benefit of inother the public funds or rates under the control of such governing be charge on body to the payment of the costs and expenses attending the same; borough an and when there are several funds or rates under the control of the local funds, governing body, such governing body shall determine out of which except in fund or funds, rate or rates, such expense shall be payable, and in certain cases. what proportions: [Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall authorise any governing body to promote any Bill in Parliament for the establishment of any gas or water works to compete with any existing gas or water company established under any Act of Parliament:] Provided that no powers contained in this clause shall apply in any case where the [promotion of, 1or] opposition to a Bill by a governing body has been decided by a Committee of either House of Parliament to be unreasonable or vexatious.

3. No payment to any member of a governing body for acting as No payment council or agent in [promoting lor] opposing any such Bill shall be to member of charged as aforesaid.

governing body to be so

Costs of pro

4. No expense in relation to [promoting 1or] opposing any Bill or charged. Bills in Parliament shall be charged as aforesaid unless incurred in pursuance of a resolution of an absolute majority of the whole number moting or of the governing body at a meeting of the governing body, after ten opposing Bills clear days notice by public advertisement of such meeting and of the to require purpose thereof in some local newspaper published or circulating in sanction of special the district, such notice to be in addition to the ordinary notices meetings. required for summoning such meeting, nor unless such resolution shall have been published twice in some newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district, and shall have received, in respect of matters within the jurisdiction of the Local Government Board, the approval of such Board, and in respect of other matters, the approval of one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State, [and in case of the promotion of a Bill in Parliament no further expense shall be incurred or charged as aforesaid after the deposit of the Bill, unless the propriety of such promotion shall be confirmed by such absolute majority at a further special meeting to be held in pursuance of a similar notice not less than fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament: Provided further, that no expense in promoting or opposing any Bill in Parliament shall be charged as aforesaid

ante.

These words are omitted by express provision of the L. G. A., 1888, sec. 15,

Sect. 4. unless such promotion or opposition shall have had the consent of the owners and ratepayers of that district, to be expressed by resolution in the manner provided in the Local Government Act (1858) for the adoption of that Act.]1

Proviso as to approval of Local Government Board, &c., to any such resolution.

Costs to be examined.

Power to direct local inquiry.

Saving clause.

[Act not to extend to

5. The approval of the Local Government Board or one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, as the case may be, shall not be given to any such resolution as aforesaid, until the expiration of seven days after the second publication thereof, as provided by this Act, and in the meantime any ratepayer within the district of the governing body may give notice in writing to the Local Government Board or Secretary of State objecting to such approval.

6. All costs, charges, and expenses incurred under the provisions of this Act shall, before the same become chargeable, be examined and allowed by some person to be authorised by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or by the Local Government Board, as the case may be.

7. The Local Government Board, or one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, shall have power to direct a local inquiry to be held upon any application under this Act, by any person or persons whom they may respectively nominate for the purpose, and to charge the costs and expenses of such local inquiry upon the governing body or the person by whom such application shall be made.

8. Nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to alter or affect any special provision which is or shall be contained in any other Act for the payment of the costs, charges, and expenses intended to be provided for by this Act, or to take away or diminish any rights or powers now possessed or enjoyed by any governing body, or which are or shall be vested in or exerciseable by the inhabitants of any district under any general or special Act.

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10. [The provisions of this Act shall not extend to applications for any Bill in Parliament for any object which would, for the time Bills if object being, be attainable by Provisional Order.]

attainable by Provisional Order.]

Act not to apply to Ireland or the Metropolis.

11. This Act shall not extend or apply to [Ireland or] the city of London or the metropolitan area as defined by the Metropolitan Local Management Act, 1855.3

1 See note to sec. 2, ante.

2 This section is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1883.

Subject to the limitations contained in sec. 15 of the L. G. A., the London County Council will now have the powers of opposing bills and prosecuting or defending legal proceedings conferred by this Act: see L. G. A., secs. 15 and 40 (6), ante, and notes to sec. 15.