{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/27",
  "legislation_title": "Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1887",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Accommodation for weighing cattle to be provided.",
  "text": "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.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nIf 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.\nAny 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 level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Weights and Measures Act 1963 (c. 31), Sch. 9 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Ss. 4, 5, 8, 9, Sch. repealed (E.W.) as respects (a) any local authority outside London which was a market authority for purposes of Food and Drugs Act 1938 (c. 56) by ibid., Sch. 4 Pt. I and (b) any London borough council which was a market authority for purposes of Food and Drugs Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 16), Pt. III by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), Sch. 18 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/27/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:48.887390+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}