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Application of Act to England, Ireland, and Scotland.
8 & 9 Vict. c. 33. ss. 151, 152.
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11. The present provisions with respect to the security of reservoirs shall apply to England and Ireland ; and they shall also apply to Scotland, subject to the following variations, namely,—the sheriff shall be deemed to be empowered thereby, as well as two justices ; and the appeal given shall lie from two justices in manner provided by sections one hundred and fifty-one and one hundred and fifty-two of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and shall lie from a sheriff substitute to the sheriff depute, where the matter comes in the first instance before a sheriff substitute; and in that case the sheriff depute shall hear and determine the appeal, and may either confirm, recall, vary, or supersede the order of the sheriff substitute, as he thinks proper; and the costs of the appeal shall be in the discretion of the sheriff; and the order or judgment of the sheriff in the appeal shall be final.
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