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Police, Factories, & c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916

6 & 7 Geo. 5 c. 31 · Enacted 3 August 1916 · Extends to United Kingdom

Not fully up to date. 6 changes made by later legislation have not yet been written into this text, which is revised to 9 November 2016.

See the changes not yet applied
ProvisionChangeMade by
s. 5(1)words substitutedCharities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 Sch. 8 para. 1(2)
s. 5(1)words repealedCharities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 Sch. 8 para. 1(3) Sch. 9
s. 5(4)words insertedCharities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 Sch. 8 para. 1(4)
s. 5(1)words substitutedCharities Act 2006 Sch. 8 para. 15(2)
s. 5(1)words repealedCharities Act 2006 Sch. 8 para. 15(3) Sch. 9
s. 5(4)words insertedCharities Act 2006 Sch. 8 para. 15(4)

An Act to amend the Enactments relating to the Police and certain other Enactments with the administration of which the Secretary of State for the Home Department is concerned.

[3rd August 1916] I1C1C2

Annotations to the whole text

Modifications

C1

This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

C2

Act applied (temp.) by 2002 c. i, ss. 1(2)-(4), 21(5)(a) (with ss. 38, 39)

Commencement

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Act wholly in force at Royal Assent

Contents

  1. Part I: Police
  2. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  4. 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  5. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  6. 5Regulations of street collections.
  7. 6Extent of Part I.
  8. Part II
  9. 7—9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  10. Part III: Miscellaneous and General
  11. 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  12. 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  13. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  14. 13Short title.
  15. Schedule Schedule

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5Regulations of street collections.C1

C2C3(1)

F1Each of the authorities specified in subsection (1A) below may make regulations with respect to the places where and the conditions under which persons may be permitted in any street or public place, within their area, to collect money or sell articles for the benefit of charitable or other purposes, and any person who acts in contravention of any such regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F2level 1 on the standard scale or in the case of a second or subsequent offence not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale:

Provided that—

(a)

regulations made under this section shall not come into operation until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State F4..., and published for such time and in such manner as the Secretary of State ... may direct; and

(b)

regulations made under this section shall not apply to the selling of articles in any street or public place when the articles are sold in the ordinary course of trade, and for the purpose of earning a livelihood, and no representation is made by or on behalf of the seller that any part of the proceeds of sale will be devoted to any charitable purpose.

F5(1A)

The authorities referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a)

the Common Council of the City of London,

(F6b)

the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and

(c)

the council of each district;

but any regulations made by a district council under that subsection shall not have effect with respect to any street or public place which is within the Metropolitan Police District as well as within the district.

C4(2)

This section, except subsection (3) thereof, shall apply to Ireland with the following modifications:—

(a)

references to the Secretary of State F7... shall be construed as references to the Lord Lieutenant; and

(b)

references to F8the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime shall . . . F9 be construed as references to the Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

(3)

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(4)

In this section—

the expression “street” includes any highway and any public bridge, road, lane, footway, square, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not.

6Extent of Part I.

This Part of this Act shall not apply, except where otherwise expressly provided, to Scotland or Ireland.

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13Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Police, Factories, &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916.

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