Sir Joshua Scholefield
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 240
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... marking of such boats for purposes of identification; (iii) general sanitary provisions; (iv) provisions with regard to infectious and other serious diseases; and (v) provisions with regard to the education of children living on such boats; the first two classes of provisions being, of course, supplemental to and intended to prevent evasion of the succeeding ones. There are, in addition, a number of general provisions regulating the administration and enforcement of the law. (i) Registration.--No canal boat may be used as a dwelling unless it is duly registered, and then only for such number of persons of different ages and sexes as may be specified in its certificate of registration. The Local Government Board is from time to time to select one or more of the sanitary authorities whose districts abut on any canal as registration authorities, and the owner of a boat plying or intended to ply on that canal may apply to have his boat registered by any one of such selected authorities (Act of 1877, ss. 1, 7; Begulations, Article 1). Upon receipt of an application, stating when and where the boat can be examined, the authority must send an examiner to report on it; the latter must see that the boat complies with the conditions specified by Article 3 of the Begulations as to air space and accommodation generally, and must make a report thereon in the form prescribed by such Regulations. If the conditions are in fact complied with, the authority must register the boat, and the entry in the register will show (inter alia) the number, age and sex of the persons by whom it may be used as a dwelling. The boat having been registered, the owner must pay a fee of 5s., and the authority must hand to him two copies of the certificate of registration, ..