Weights and Measures (Ireland) Amendment Act 1862

JurisdictionIreland
Citation1862 c. 76
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Vicesimo Quinto & Vicesimo Sexto. An Act to amend ‘The Weights and Measures (Ireland ) Act, 1860;’ to abolish local and customary Denominations of Weight, and to regulate the Mode of weighing Articles sold, in Ireland .

(25 & 26 Vict.) C A P. LXXVI.

[7th August 1862]

'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of HerMajesty, intituledAn Act to amend the Law relating to Weights and, Measures in Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be amended in the Manner herein-after mentioned:' 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:

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PART I.

S-1 Commencement of Act.

1 Commencement of Act.

This Act shall commence and take effect on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

S-2 Short Title.

2 Short Title.

This Act may for all Purposes be cited as ‘The Weights and Measures (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1862.’

S-3 Certain Sections of recited Act repealed.

3 Certain Sections of recited Act repealed.

The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Sections of the said recited Act (except so much of the said Fourth Section as repeals the Eighteenth Section of ‘The Summary Jurisdiction ( Ireland ) Act, 1851,’) shall be and are hereby repealed: Provided always, that, notwithstanding such Repeal of the said Eleventh and Twelfth Sections, all such Expenses as are mentioned in the said Sections respectively which shall have been incurred, and shall not have been paid before the Commencement of this Act, shall be presented, raised, and levied in the Manner directed by the said Sections respectively.

S-4 This Act incorporate with recited Act.

4 This Act incorporate with recited Act.

This Act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the said recited Act, and shall be as if the said recited Act (except such Parts thereof as have been repealed or amended by this Act) and this Act were One Act.

S-5 Certain Head and other Constables to be ex-officio Inspectors of Weights and Measures.

5 Certain Head and other Constables to be ex-officio Inspectors of Weights and Measures.

From and after the Commencement of this Act, such Head or other Constables only in each Petty Sessions District as shall be selected under this Act by the Inspector General of Constabulary in Ireland , with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant, shall be ex-officio Inspectors of Weights and Measures within such District, and shall possess and exercise all the Powers and Authorities, and be subject to the like Penalties for any Neglect or Offence in the Discharge of such Duties, which any Inspector of Weights and Measures heretofore possessed or exercised or had been liable to under and by virtue of the Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of KingWilliam the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-three, or any other Act now in force, and shall perform such Duties, under the Direction of the Justices at Petty Sessions, without Fee or Reward, and notwithstanding any Manorial Jurisdiction or Claim of Jurisdiction within such District: Provided that if within One Month from the Date of such Selection the Justices shall signify their Disapproval of the Selection of any Head or other Constable, another Selection shall be made by the same Authority, subject to the same Conditions, and the Inspector General of Constabulary shall give Notice, or cause Notice to be given, to the Clerk of the Petty Sessions District, within Three Days of any such Selection having been made in his District, who shall immediately make known the said Selection to the Justices of the District.

S-6 Inspector General to appoint One Officer in each County or Borough to have Custody of Imperial Standards, who shall also stamp Sub-Standards.

6 Inspector General to appoint One Officer in each County or Borough to have Custody of Imperial Standards, who shall also stamp Sub-Standards.

The Inspector General of Constabulary shall, with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant, also appoint some Sub-Inspector of Constabulary in every County or Borough in Ireland to have the Charge of such Copy or Copies of the Imperial Standard Weights and Measures as shall have been provided for such County or Borough under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, or may be so provided under this Act; and such Sub-Inspector shall duly stamp or cause to be duly stamped from Time to Time such Sub-Standard Weights and Measures as may be transmitted to him for such Purpose; and any Inspector of Weights and Measures in any such County or Borough in whose Custody any Copy or Copies of the Imperial Standard Weights and Measures shall have been deposited, under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, shall, within One Calendar Month after the Commencement of this Act, transmit the same to the Sub-Inspector appointed to have the Custody of the same, under the Provisions of this Act, subject to a Penalty for Neglect or Refusal not exceeding Ten Pounds.

S-7 Grand Jury and Town Council to provide One Set of Copies of Imperial Standards for each County or Borough, and also as many Sub-Standards as may be necessary.

7 Grand Jury and Town Council to provide One Set of Copies of Imperial Standards for each County or Borough, and also as many Sub-Standards as may be necessary.

It shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of each County and the Town Council of each Borough and they are hereby, required to provide One complete Set of Copies of the Imperial Standard Weights and Measures for each such County or Borough respectively, where the same has not been already provided, and to have the same from Time to Time duly compared and re-verified in the Manner required by the Fifteenth Section of the said first-recited Act, and also to provide for each such County or Borough respectively as many Copies in Iron or other sufficient Material of the County Copies of the Imperial Standard Weights and Measures, and such accurate Beams...

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