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MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law with respect to weighing Cattle in Markets
and Fairs.
[8th August 1887]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1908

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of
Cattle) Act, 1887.

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 2
Application of Act.

2. This Act, save as is herein-after provided, shall apply to all
markets and fairs in which tolls are for the time being authorised
to be taken and actually are taken in respect of cattle by any
company, corporation, or person; and every such company, corporation,
or person is in this Act called "the market authority."

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 3
Interpretation.

3. In this Act the word "cattle" includes ram, ewe, wether, lamb,
and swine.

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 4
Accommodation for weighing cattle to be provided.

4. In or near to every market or fair to which this Act applies,
the market authority shall provide and maintain sufficient and proper
buildings or places for weighing cattle brought for sale within the
market or fair, and shall keep therein or near thereto weighing
machines and weights for the purpose of weighing cattle, and shall
appoint proper persons to have charge of such machines and weights,
and to afford the use of such machines and weights to the public
for weighing cattle as may be from time to time required.

If the market authority fail to comply with the provisions of this
section, it shall not be lawful for them to demand, receive, or
recover any toll whatever in respect of any cattle brought to the
market or fair for sale so long as such failure continues....

Any person who demands or receives any toll in respect of cattle
in any market or fair to which for the time being this Act
applies, but in which the market authority have not complied with
the provisions of this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 5
Cattle to be weighed at option of seller or buyer.

5. Every person selling, offering for sale, or buying any cattle in
a market or fair provided with accommodation for weighing cattle may
require such cattle to be weighed, and the tolls payable in respect
of the weighing shall be paid by the person requiring the cattle
to be weighed to the person authorised by the market authority to
receive the tolls.

Ss.6, 7 rep. by 1967 c.6 (NI) s.44(3) sch.7 Pt.III

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 8
Tolls for weighing cattle.

8. The market authority may from time to time (unless otherwise
expressly provided by any Act) demand and receive in respect of the
weighing of cattle tolls not exceeding the amounts specified in the
schedule to this Act, or such other amounts as may be authorised
by the Local Government Board for Ireland, to be taken by the
market authority; and sections thirty-six to forty-one (both included)
of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847, shall apply to the
tolls mentioned in this section, as if this Act were the special
Act, and the market authority were the undertakers.

MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1887 - SECT 9
Power to exempt certain markets and fairs from provisions of Act.

9.(1) The market authority of any market or fair may at any time
apply to the Local Government Board for Ireland to be exempted from
the provisions of this Act on the ground that the sale of cattle
at such market or fair is or is likely to be so small as to
render it inexpedient to enforce the provision and maintenance of a
place for weighing cattle and of a weighing machine under this Act;
and thereupon the Local Government Board for Ireland may by order
declare that this Act shall not apply to such market or fair until
after the expiration of a time not exceeding three years to be
limited by such order. Any order made under this section may at
any time be wholly or partially rescinded, altered, or extended by
any subsequent order of the Local Government Board for Ireland.

(2) This Act shall not apply to any market or fair to which any
order under this section applies so long as it is declared by such
order that this Act shall not apply thereto.

S.10 (Application to Ireland)