Sect. 34. Construction of Act. Definitions. 34. This Act and the principal Act shall be construed together as one Act. 35. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Weighing instrument" includes scales, with the weights belonging thereto, scale-beams, balances, spring-balances, steelyards, weighing machines, and other instruments for weighing: "Measuring instrument" includes any instrument for the measurement of length, capacity, volume, temperature, pressure, or gravity, or for the measurement and determination of electrical quantities: "Vehicle" means any carriage, cart, waggon, truck, barrow, or other means of carrying coal by land, in whatever manner the same may be drawn or propelled, but does not include a railway truck or waggon: Inspector" means an inspector under the principal Act: Other expressions have the same meaning as in the principal Act (h) Provided that the expression "local authority" shall, in its application to England, be construed subject to the provisions of the 51 & 52 Vict. Local Government Act, 1888 (i), and the expression "weighing machine" in the principal Act shall include any weighing instrument as defined by this Act. c. 41. Repeal. Commencement. 36. (1.) The enactments specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule. (2.) The repeal of any enactment by this Act shall not affect— (b) any right or liability acquired or incurred under any enact- (c) any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment repealed; or (d) any power, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any such power, legal proceeding, and remedy may be exercised and carried on as if this Act had not passed. 37. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety, which date is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act: Provided as follows: (a.) At any time after the passing of this Act any appointment, bye-law, or regulation may be made, and any other thing (h) See the definitions in s. 70 of the Act of 1878. (i) See the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 3 (xiii.), ante, p. 12. may be done, which appears to a local authority to be Sect. 37. 39. This Act may be cited as the Weights and Measures Act, Snort titles. 1889; and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 and 1889 (1). SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE. Fees to be taken on the verification and stamping of Weights, Measures, and Section 13. 421 21 0 1 of a yard, 2 feet, foot and inch respectively, 0 1 Measures from 0.500 to 0·001 inch, in the form of wire-gauge For each notch, or for each internal gauge or separate size, Capacity: 0 0 Each measure of 4 bushels (32 gallons) and 1 bushel (8 gallons) (k) Clause (b) of s. 37 and s. 38 relate exclusively to Ireland. (1) The Act of 1878, this Act, and the Acts of 1892 and 1893 (see note (m) ante, p. 409), are now comprised in the collective title, "The Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 to 1893;" Short Titles Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 14). Schedule 1. Apothecaries-continued. Each subdivided measure containing more than eighteen sub divisions but not more than twenty one 8. d. 0 12 0 2 containing more than twenty-one sub- containing more than thirty-six sub- 0 3 0 31 0 4 06 Each separate measure from 40 fluid oz. to 10 fluid oz. inclusive fifty 10 fluid oz. Weighing Instruments. 09 100 0 0 exclusive of cost of cartage and lifting of standards in each of the Weight Ticket or Consignment Note on delivery of Coal over Two Mr. A.B. [here insert the name of the buyer]. Where coal is delivered by means of a vehicle the seller must deliver or send Schedule 3. by post or otherwise to the purchaser or his servant, before any part of the coal is unloaded, a ticket or note in this form. Any seller of coal who delivers a less quantity than is stated in this ticket or note is liable to a fine. Any person attending on a vehicle used for the delivery of coal who, having received a ticket or note for delivery to the purchaser, refuses or neglects to deliver it to the purchaser or his servant, is liable to a fine. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Welsh Inter- Short title mediate Education Act, 1889, and shall, so far as is consistent with (n) This Act constitutes a "joint education committee" for every county in Wales and for Monmouthshire for the purpose of submitting to the Charity Commissioners a scheme or proposal for a scheme for the intermediate and and construction.. Sect. 1. Purpose of Act. Schemes by joint education committee. the tenour thereof, be construed as one with the Endowed Schools Acts (0), and may be cited together with those Acts, as the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869 to 1889. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of November next after the passing thereof, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. 2. The purpose of this Act is to make further provision for the intermediate and technical education of the inhabitants of Wales and the county of Monmouth. Schemes for Intermediate Education. 3.—(1.) It shall be the duty of the joint education committee as hereinafter mentioned (p) of every county in Wales and of the county of Monmouth to submit to the Charity Commissioners a scheme or schemes for the intermediate and technical education of the inhabitants of their county, either alone or in conjunction with the inhabitants of any adjoining county or counties, specifying in each scheme the educational endowments within their county which in their opinion ought to be used for the purpose of such scheme. (2.) A county council may recommend their committee to insert in such scheme a provision for a payment out of the county rate to an amount not exceeding that in this Act mentioned (q), of the expenses of carrying into effect the scheme, or any particular part thereof, and such provision may accordingly, if it is thought fit, be inserted in the scheme. (3.) Such scheme, if the Commissioners (after such examination or inquiry as mentioned in section thirty-two of the Endowed 32 & 33 Vict, Schools Act, 1869 (r)) approve it, either without modification, or with c. 56. technical education (as defined by s. 17, infra) of the inhabitants of the county. The county council appoints some of the members of the joint committee and exercises a certain control over their proceedings. The powers of a joint education committee are temporary (see s. 11, infra), but are now in force until December 31st, 1898, by virtue of the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 54). (0) The Endowed Schools Acts comprise the 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56 (1869), the 36 & 37 Vict. c. 87 (1873), the 37 & 38 Vict. c. 87 (1874), and this Act. (p) The constitution of the joint education committee is provided for by s. 5, infra. (9) The addition to the county rate for contributions under this Act is not to exceed in any year one halfpenny in the pound on the rateable value of the property as ascertained for the purpose of levying county contributions, s. 8 (3), infra. (r) Section 32 of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, empowered the Charity Commissioners, after such examination or public inquiry as they think necessary, to prepare drafts or schemes for the purposes of that Act subject to certain conditions, one of which was that any governing body of any such endowment might within a certain period after the commencement of the Act, and upon giving certain notices to the Commissioners, prepare and submit to the Commissioners in writing a scheme relating to such endowment, and the Commissioners shall consider such scheme before they themselves prepare any |