Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Act, 1886, Amendment Act 1887

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INCUMBENTS OF BENEFICES LOANS EXTENSION ACT, 1886, AMENDMENT ACT 1887

CHAPTER 8.

An Act to amend the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Act, 1886 [23rd May 1887.].

‘WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Act, 1886:

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:

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Act, 1886, Amendment Act, 1887; and this Act and the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Act, 1886, (herein-after referred to as the principal Act) may be cited together as the Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension Acts, 1886-87.

Amendment of 49.

2. In section one of the principal Act the words “by extending such term for any period not exceeding twenty years from the yearly period next before the date of the resolution to be passed in respect of such benefice, to be accompanied by a corresponding reduction of the amount of the annual instalment of principal and interest,” shall be read and have effect as if the following words had been inserted in lieu thereof; that is to say, “by extending such term for any period not exceeding twenty years, so that by such extension the amount of the annual instalments payable in respect of the loan shall be reduced as from the day of the annual payment due next before the date of the resolution to be passed in respect of such benefice”; and such extension may be granted notwithstanding the original term may have been before extended. Provided that the whole term of the two extensions shall not exceed in any case twenty years. And in the case of any extension of the time for the payment of instalments the term of years for which the possessions of the benefice are mortgaged shall be enlarged to the like extent.

believe that the provisions of this Act are infringed on this behalf, to examine and take samples from any package, and ascertain, if necessary by submitting the same to be analysed, whether an offence against this Act has been committed.

Registration of manufactory.

9. Every manufactory of margarine within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be registered by the owner or occupier thereof with the local authority from time to time in such manner as the Local Government Boards of England and Ireland and the Secretary for Scotland respectively may direct, and every such owner or occupier carrying on such manufacture in a manufactory not duly registered shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

Power to inspectors to take samples without purchase.

10. Any officer authorised to take samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875 , may, without going through the form of purchase provided by that Act, but otherwise acting in all respects in accordance with the provisions of the said Act as to dealing with samples, take for the purposes of analysis samples of any butter, or substances purporting to be butter, which are exposed for sale, and are not marked Margarine, as provided by this Act; and any such substance not being so marked shall be presumed to be exposed for sale as butter.

Appropriation of penalties.

11. Any part of any penalty recovered under this Act may, if the Court shall so direct, be paid to the person who proceeds for the same, to reimburse him for the legal costs of obtaining the analysis, and any other reasonable expenses to which the Court shall consider him entitled.

Proceedings.

12. All proceedings under this Act shall, save as expressly varied by this Act, be the same as prescribed by sections twelve to twenty-eight inclusive of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875 , and all officers employed under that Act are hereby empowered and required to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Definition of local authority.

13. The expression “local authority” shall mean any local authority authorised to appoint a public analyst under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875 .