PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 2 Interpretation.

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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 2

Interpretation.

2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have
the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; (that is to say,)

Definition rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285

["district" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(3) of the Local
Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972;

"district council" means a council established under the Local Government Act
(Northern Ireland) 1972;]

"Local Government Board" means the Local Government Board for Ireland:

"Person" includes any body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate:

Definition rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285

"Lands" and "premises" include messuages, buildings, lands, easements, and
hereditaments of any tenure:

"Owner" means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the
lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his
own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so
receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent:

"Rackrent" means rent which is not less than two thirds of the full net annual
value of the property out of which the rent arises as ascertained under the
Acts relating to the valuation of rateable property in Ireland:

"Street" includes any highway and any public bridge and any road, lane,
footway, square, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not:

"House" includes schools, and also factories and other buildings in which
persons are employed, whatever their number may be

"Drain" means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only or
of premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of
communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage,
or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises
occupied by different persons is conveyed:

"Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to
which the word "drain" interpreted as aforesaid applies, and except drains
vested in or under the control of any authority having the management of roads
and not being a sanitary authority under this Act:

["Slaughter-house" means any building, premises or place used in connection
with the business of killing animals for the purpose of the flesh being used
as butcher's meat:]

["Knacker's yard" has the meaning assigned to that term by section nine of the
Slaughter of Animals Act (Northern Ireland), 1932:]

Definitions spent

"Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Acts" means the Labouring Classes Lodging
Houses and Dwellings Act (Ireland), 1866, and the Labouring Classes Dwelling
Houses Act, 1867:

Definitions spent

"Baths and Wash-houses Acts" means the
Baths and Wash-houses (Ireland) Act, 1846:

"Sanitary Acts" means all the above-mentioned Acts and the Acts mentioned in
the Schedule A. to this Act annexed except the Burial Grounds Acts as
herein-after defined, and includes any amendments of such Acts contained in
this or any other Act; and, with respect to any urban sanitary district,
includes any Act, local Act, or provisional order relating to the same subject
matters as the above-mentioned Acts in force within such district:

"Sanitary purposes" means any objects or purposes of the Sanitary Acts:

"Burial Grounds Acts" means the Burial Grounds (Ireland) Act, 1856, as the
same is amended by the 23 & 24 Vict. c.76:

"Lands Clauses Acts" means and includes the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as the same is amended by the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860; the Railways Act
(Ireland), 1851; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1860; the Railways Act (Ireland),
1864, and the Railway Traverse Act:

"Poor Law Acts" means the Poor Relief Ireland Act, 1838, and the Acts amending
the same:

Definitions rep. by SLR 1894

Definition spent

"Court of quarter sessions" means the court of general or quarter sessions of
the peace having jurisdiction over the whole or any part of the district or
place in which the matter requiring the cognizance of general or quarter
sessions arises, and when used in reference to any suit or proceeding
prosecuted or taken in any borough in which there shall be a recorder having
jurisdiction to hear appeals from rates, or from any order, conviction or
judgment of any court of summary jurisdiction, includes the court of such
recorder:

["Prejudicial to health" means injurious, or likely to cause injury to
health.]

Ss.37 rep. by 1898 c.37 s.110 sch.6 Pt.VI; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

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