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Metropolitan Market Act 1851

Great Britian Parliament

14 & 15 Victoria c. 61.] An Act for Providing a Metropolitan Market and Conveniences Connected therewith in Lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfield

[1851-Aug-01 ] "An Act for Providing a Metropolitan Market and Conveniences Connected therewith in Lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfield [1st August 1851]," in A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1851 (London, 1851; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks 421-433.

VI. [Commissioners may make Byelaws.] It shall be lawful for the Commissioners from Time to Time to make Byelaws, for fixing or altering the Days upon which the Markets to be holden under this Act shall or may be held, for fixing the Hours for commencing and closing the said Markets on each Market Day, the Times at which Cattle and Horses respectively shall be brought into or exposed for Sale in the Market and removed therefrom, and for the letting, occupying, holding, and using of the Pens, Lairs, Stalls, Shops, Buildings, and Conveniences for keeping the said Market Places, Slaughter-houses, and Lairs in a cleanly and proper State, and preventing the Exercise of Cruelty therein, for preventing Nuisances or Obstructions in the said Market Places or the immediate Approaches thereto, and generally for regulating, ordering, and governing the said Markets, Slaughter-houses, and Lairs, and the Conduct of Business therein; and the Commissioners may from Time to Time alter or repeal any such Byelaws, and may by such Byelaws impose such reasonable Penalties as they think fit, not exceeding Five Pounds for each Breach of such Byelaws, but so that every such Byelaw be so framed as to allow the Justices before whom any Penalty imposed thereby may be sought to be recovered to order the whole or Part only of such Penalty to be paid; provided always, that no Byelaw of the Commissioners shall be of any Force or Effect until the same has been approved under the Hand of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and such Byelaws shall be sealed with the Seal of the Commissioners, and published as herein-after mentioned.