Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1887

This Act may be cited as the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1887.

This Act, save as is herein-after provided, shall apply to all markets and fairs in which tolls are for the time being authorised to be taken and actually are taken in respect of cattle by any company, corporation, or person; and every such company, corporation, or person is in this Act called “the market authority.”

In this Act the word “cattle” includes ram, ewe, wether, lamb, and swine.

In or near to every market or fair to which this Act applies, the market authority shall provide and maintain sufficient and proper buildings or places for weighing cattle brought for sale within the market or fair, and shall keep therein or near thereto weighing machines and weights for the purpose of weighing cattle, and shall appoint proper persons to have charge of such machines and weights, and to afford the use of such machines and weights to the public for weighing cattle as may be from time to time required.

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If the market authority fail to comply with the provisions of this section, it shall not be lawful for them to demand, receive, or recover any toll whatever in respect of any cattle brought to the market or fair for sale so long as such failure continues, but this enactment shall not apply till after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

Any person who demands or receives any toll in respect of cattle in any market or fair to which for the time being this Act applies, but in which the market authority have not complied with the provisions of this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F2level 1 on the standard scale.

Every person selling, offering for sale, or buying any cattle in a market or fair provided with accommodation for weighing cattle may require such cattle to be weighed, and the tolls payable in respect of the weighing shall be paid by the person requiring the cattle to be weighed to the person authorised by the market authority to receive the tolls.

The market authority may from time to time (unless otherwise expressly provided by any Act) demand and receive in respect of the weighing of cattle tolls not exceeding the amounts specified in the schedule to this Act, or such other amounts as may be authorised by F1the Secretary of State to be taken by the market authority; and sections thirty-six to forty-one (both included) of the M1Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847, shall apply to the tolls mentioned in this section, as if this Act were the special Act, and the market authority were the undertakers.

In the application of this Act to Scotland and Ireland this Act shall be read and construed as if for the expression F1“the Secretary of State” there were substituted, as regards Scotland, the expression F2“the Secretary of State” and as regards Ireland, the expression “the Local Government Board for Ireland.”