Section 44 No byelaws to come into operation until allowed in the manner prescribed and approved by secretary of state.C2C1

No byelaws made under the authority of this or the special Act (except such as may relate solely to the officers or servants of the undertakers) shall come into operation until the same shall be allowed in the manner prescribed by the special Act, or, if no manner be prescribed, until the same shall be allowed by the justices at quarter sessions, if the market or fair be in England or Ireland, or the sheriff, if the market or fair be situate in Scotland, and in either case approved under the hand of one of Her Majesty’s principal secretaries of state; and it shall be incumbent on the justices at quarter sessions, or the sheriff, as the case may be, on the request of the undertakers, to examine into the byelaws which may be tendered to them for that purpose, and to allow of or disallow the same, as to them may seem meet.