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POLICE, FACTORIES &C. (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1916

POLICE, FACTORIES &C. (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1916 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to amend the Enactments relating to the Police and certain
other Enactments with the administration of which the Secretary of
State for the Home Department is concerned.
[3rd August 1916]
PART I

POLICE, FACTORIES &C. (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1916 - SECT 5

5.(1) A police authority may make regulations with respect to the
places where and the conditions under which persons may be permitted
in any street or public place, within the police area, to collect
money or sell articles for the benefit of charitable or other
purposes, and any person who acts in contravention of any such
regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding [#2] or in the case of a second or subsequent offence
not exceeding five pounds:

Provided that

(a)regulations made under this section shall not come into operation
until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State, and
published for such time and in such manner as the Secretary of
State may direct; and

(b)regulations made under this section shall not apply to the
selling of articles in any street or public place when the articles
are sold in the ordinary course of trade, and for the purpose of
earning a livelihood, and no representation is made by or on behalf
of the seller that any part of the proceeds of sale will be
devoted to any charitable purpose.

(2) This section, except subsection (3) thereof, shall apply to
Ireland with the following modifications:

(a)references to the Secretary of State shall be construed as
references to the Lord Lieutenant; and

(b)references to a police authority shall be construed as references
to the Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

(4) In this section

the expression "street" includes any highway and any public bridge,
road, lane, footway, square, court, alley, or passage, whether a
thoroughfare or not.

POLICE, FACTORIES &C. (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1916 - SECT 6
Extent of Part I.

6. This Part of this Act shall not apply, except where otherwise
expressly provided, to... Ireland.

Part II (ss.79) rep. by 1938 c.23 (NI) s.161(1) sch.3

S.10 rep. by 1969 c.6 (NI) s.163 sch.5. S.12 rep. by SLR (NI)
1954; 1964 c.21 (NI) s.172 sch.7

POLICE, FACTORIES &C. (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1916 - SECT 13
Short title.

13. This Act may be cited as the Police, Factories, &c.
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1916.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1927