payment of expenses of the same. to institute and conduct proceedings for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the said Acts, or any of them, within their union or parish; and as to all expenses incurred by any person so appointed, or by any registrar of births and deaths, or by any medical officer of health appointed under an Act of Parliament, in proceedings for enforcing penalties under the said Acts, or any of them, if the justices or court before whom such proceedings are had certify that such expenses ought to be allowed, such court or justices shall ascertain the amount thereof,1 and such amount shall be payable out of the rates for the relief of the poor of the parish where the person for the time being dwells in respect of whose default or offence the same were instituted; and the court or justices shall ascertain the amount of such expenses. And proceedings for enforcing penalties under any of the said Acts, on account of neglect to have a child vaccinated, may be taken at any time during which the parent or guardian is in default.3 It will be seen that there is a repetition here. 2 It will be observed that the costs were to be charged to the parish of the offender's residence, and not to the common fund of the union, where the parish was within a union. See Pilcher v. Stafford, 33 L. J. (N.S.), M. C. 113; 9 L. T. (N.S.), 759; and ante, p. 114. 28 & 29 VICT. c. 79. An Act to provide for the better Distribution of the Charge for the Relief of the Poor in Unions. [29th June, 1865. WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the better distribution of the charge for the relief of the poor in unions than is by law now established: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 4 & 5 W. iv. unions to their own I. From and after the twenty-fifth day of March one So much of thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, so much of the sect. 26 of twenty-sixth section of the fourth and fifth William the c. 76, as Fourth, chapter seventy-six, as requires that each of the requires parishes in a union formed under the authority of that parishes in Act shall be separately chargeable with and liable to defray exdefray the expense of its own poor, whether relieved in penses of or out of the workhouse of such union, shall be repealed; poor reand all the cost of the relief of the poor, and the ex- pealed; and penses of the burial of the dead body of any poor person thenceforth under the direction of the guardians, or any of their incurred to officers duly authorised, in such union thenceforth in- be charged curred, and all charges thenceforth incurred by the guar- mon fund. dians of such union in respect of vaccination1 and registration' fees and expenses, shall be charged upon the common fund thereof. expenses to the com XVI. The words herein used shall be interpreted in Interpretathe manner prescribed by the statute of the fourth and tion of terms fifth years of William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, and the subsequent Acts amending or explaining the same, 1 See 4 & 5 Vict. c. 32, and the notes thereon, ante, pp. 105, 106; see also 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, s. 10, and the notes thereon, ante, pp. 114-117. And see further, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84, s. 26, ante, p. 40. Short title. and the provisions in such Acts which apply to poor persons rendered chargeable upon the common fund by reason of their having become irremovable through the operation of the statutes in that behalf shall apply to all the poor in the union hereby rendered chargeable upon the common fund. XVII. This Act may be cited as "The Union Chargeability Act, 1865." 129 INDEX. Accounts- payments under contracts not approved to be disallowed, Page 32 30, 108 Age of persons with reference to vaccination or revaccination, Affixing notice of times and places for vaccination Appointment of officer to conduct prosecutions Alterations of districts notice to be given in local arrangements notice to be given Annual reports of medical officer of Privy Council 122, 123 6, 125, 126 26, 33, 68, 71, 75 Annulling of contracts by Poor Law Commissioners 26, 33, 71 101 26, 76 91, 96-98 75, 76, 86, 96-98 when population is scanty when there is only one station in district when there is more than one station notice to be given for form of notice Auditor- 97 76, 97 32, 71, 76, 97 97, 98 63, 108, 113 to disallow payments under contracts not approved Birth- delivery of notice on registration of— 56, 58, 81 32 32 33, 34, 47, 51, 54, 55, 57, 62, 63, 71, 98, 113 period after when vaccination is to be procured, Book to be kept by public vaccinator- see Vaccinator's Register. 34, 47, 55, 57, 109 Page Books to be provided by Registrar General, 5, 33, 71, 73, 118, 121 see Minute Book-Register of Successful Vaccinations. Borough, penalties to be paid over to . Carriages for conveyance of sick and diseased persons charging expenses Cases cited- Anonymous 42 11 104 104 . 100 105 118 41, 43 114, 115, 126 Attorney General v. Corporation of Worcester Pilcher v. Stafford Reg. v. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 40 Reg. v. Justices of Cambridgeshire transmission of, to registrar, 34, 51, 70, 71, 72, 115, 116, 117 when not received by registrar, proceedings to be taken, 40, 52 to be a defence in prosecutions 39, 42 45 to be given to father, mother, or person having care of admissible as evidence Certificates, false, persons signing guilty of misdemeanor, see also Duplicate Certificate. 112 Charitable allowance, vaccination not to be considered to be, 40, 106 |