SUMMARY JURISDICTION (IRELAND) ACT 1851 - SECT 17 Punishment of servants, &c. for hiring under false discharges, &c.

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SUMMARY JURISDICTION (IRELAND) ACT 1851 - SECT 17

Punishment of servants, &c. for hiring under false discharges, &c.

17. The decision and regulation of certain matters relating to fairs and
markets shall be subject to the following provisions:

Para.1 rep. by 1953 c.3 (NI) s.51 sch.42.It shall be lawful for the town
commissioners acting under the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, and for
the commissioners acting under any other local or special Acts giving them
like powers in their respective towns not being corporate towns, and for the
justices at petty sessions in other market towns, not being corporate towns,
from time to time to appoint, by order in writing, such place or places in
such towns as they shall think fit for any public or hackney car or carriage
to stand in for hire; and also to make (and vary from time to time) such
regulations as they shall see fit for keeping or causing to be kept free and
clear from obstruction all passages or thoroughfares in and through the said
markets, and for keeping or causing to be kept all said markets, and all
passages therein and thereto, clear and free from any dirt or nuisances of any
kind whatever, and for preventing all indecencies being committed therein;
provided that no such regulations shall interfere with or impede the due
accommodation of persons lawfully exposing goods or wares for sale therein;
and it shall be lawful for the said town commissioners or justices, as the
case may be, to give due notice of such regulations, by causing the same to be
painted on a board, and affixed in some conspicuous place in any such market,
in like manner as schedules of tolls and customs in markets are now required
by law to be affixed:And any person who shall commit any of the next following
offences shall be liable to the punishment herein-after specified:3.Any person
who shall offend against any of the said regulations, by exhibiting goods or
wares in any such market in any place other than that appointed for the sale
of the same, or by refusing to remove the same when required so to do, or by
obstructing the passages or thoroughfares in and through such market, or by
placing or leaving any impediment of any kind therein, or by leaving or
causing to be left any dirt or nuisance of any kind therein, or who shall
commit any indecency in said market or in the passages thereto, shall be
liable to a fine [not exceeding #20]:4.Any person who shall, within any city,
borough, or market town in Ireland, or within a quarter of a mile from the
boundary thereof, cause any cart, dray, waggon, or other such carriage, or any
public or hackney car or carriage, to stand in any public road or street
longer than may be reasonable or necessary for loading or unloading, or for
taking up or setting down passengers, (except any cart, dray, waggon, or other
such carriage lawfully standing in any place customarily used for such purpose
in any public market or fair, and except any public or hackney car or carriage
standing for hire in any place which shall be fixed as a standing for that
purpose in manner aforesaid,) shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#1].

S.18 rep. by 1860 c.119 s.4. S.19 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1969 c.30 (NI) s.132
sch.6; 1976 NI13 art.14 sch. S.20 rep. by 1976 NI13 art.14 sch.

S.21 rep. by SLR 1980

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