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FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868

FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868 - LONG TITLE

An Act to facilitate the Alteration of Days upon which, and of
Places at which, Fairs are now held in Ireland.{1}
[30th March 1868]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893

FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Fairs (Ireland) Act, 1868."

FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868 - SECT 2
Interpretation.

2. In this Act

Definition rep. by SLR 1893The term "owner" means any person or
persons, or body of commissioners, or body corporate, entitled to
hold any fair, whether in respect of the ownership of any lands or
tenements, or under any charter, letters patent, or Act of
Parliament, or otherwise howsoever.

FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868 - SECT 3
Power to alter days or places for holding fairs.

3. In case it shall appear to the Lord Lieutenant in Council, upon
representation duly made to him by the owner of any fair in
Ireland, that it would be for the convenience and advantage of the
public that such fair should be held on some day or days other
than that or those on which such fair is used to be held, or at
some other suitable place (not more than one half mile distant from
the town, village, or other place where such fair is used to be
held,) provided for that purpose by the said owner, it shall be
lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of Her
Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland to order that such fair shall be
held on such other day or days as he shall think fit, or at such
other place as aforesaid: Provided always, that notice of such
representation, and of the time when it shall please the Lord
Lieutenant to order the same to be taken into consideration by the
Privy Council, shall be published once in the [Belfast Gazette], and
in three successive weeks in some one and the same newspaper of
the county, county of a city, or county of a town in which such
fair is held, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then
in the newspaper of some county adjoining or near thereto, before
such representation is so considered.

FAIRS (IRELAND) ACT 1868 - SECT 4
Orders to be published, and fairs to be held only on days or at
places named therein.

4. When and so soon as any such order as aforesaid shall have
been made by the Lord Lieutenant in Council, notice of the making
of the same shall be published in the [Belfast Gazette], and in
some one newspaper of the county, county of a city or county of a
town in which such fair is usually held, or if there be no
newspaper published therein, then in the newspaper of some county
adjoining or near thereto; and thereupon such fair shall only be
held on the day or days or at the place mentioned in such order;
and it shall be lawful for the owner of such fair to take all
such toll or tolls, and to do all such act or acts, and to enjoy
all and the same rights, powers, and privileges in respect thereof,
and to enforce the same by all and the like remedies, as if the
same were held on the day or days upon which, or at the place at
which, it was used to be held previous to the making of such
order.






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