# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 128: Commissioners may make byelaws for regulation of slaughter-houses, &c.


The commissioners shall from time to time, by byelaws, to be made and confirmed in the manner herein-after provided, make regulations for the licensing, registering, and inspection of the said slaughter-houses and knackers’s yards, and preventing cruelty therein, and for keeping the same in a cleanly and proper state, and for removing filth at least once in every twenty-four hours, and requiring them to be provided with a sufficient supply of water, and they may impose pecuniary penalties on persons breaking such byelaws; provided that no such penalty exceed for any one offence the sum of £25level 1 on the standard scale, and in the case of a continuing nuisance the sum of 50p for every day during which such nuisance shall be continued after the conviction for the first offence.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/128 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-128
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.