127. Chesterfield Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. Bill to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Chesterfield Corporation Act, 1923, relating to Chesterfield Corporation Trolley Vehicles. Child Destruction. [H.L.] p. 259 178. Bill intituled an Act to amend the law with regard to the destruction of children at or before birth. 265 Children and Young Persons (Employment and Protection). 18. Bill to consolidate, extend, and amend enactments relating to the employment and work of children and young persons (including enactments relating to employment abroad and dangerous performances and street trading), and to make further provision with respect thereto, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. 269 Coal Mines. 6. Bill to repeal the Coal Mines Act, 1926, and for purposes connected therewith. Coal Mines (Protection of Animals). 337 137. Bill to amend certain provisions of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, relating to the protection of horses and other animals used in mines. 339 Companies. 25. Bill to amend the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1917, and for purposes connected therewith. 144. Same [as amended by Standing Committee B]. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation). 343 459 198. Bill to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session. of Parliament. Consolidated Fund (No. 1). 581 77. Bill to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. 629. Copyright Order Confirmation (Mechanical Instruments: Royalties). [H.L.] 161. Bill intituled an Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Board of Trade relating to the rate of royalties on mechanical contrivances for the performance of musical works. Coroners Act (1887) Amendment. 173. Bill to amend the Coroners Act, 1887. Cotton Industry. p. 633 637 9. Bill to provide for the collection of a contribution by cotton spinners in Great Britain to. the Funds of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation; and for other matters relating to the cotton industry. Courts of Domestic Relations. 639 119. Bill to provide for courts of domestic relations to deal with matrimonial cases of the poor. Criminal Law Amendment. 641 189. Bill to amend the law with respect to offences against persons under the age of sixteen. Currency and Bank Notes. 643 115. Bill to amend the law relating to the issue of bank notes by the Bank of England, and by banks in Scotland. and Northern Ireland and to provide for the transfer to the Bank of England of the currency notes issue and of the assets appropriated for the redemption thereof, and to make certain provisions with respect to gold reserves and otherwise in connection with the matters aforesaid and to prevent the defacement of bank notes. 136. Same [as amended in Committee]. 645 657 5 10 ΤΟ Secure to the public the right of access to WHEREAS to HEREAS it is desirable to secure to the public the right of free access to uncultivated mountain and moor land, subject to proper provisions for preventing any abuse of such right: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: A.D. 1928. 1. This Act may be cited as the Access to Mountains Short title Act, 1928, and shall come into operation on the first day and comof January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. mencement. 2. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, Persons not to no owner or occupier of uncultivated mountain or moor be prevented from walking 15 land shall be entitled to exclude any person from walking on mountain or being on such land for the purposes of recreation or land for purscientific or artistic study, or to molest him in so walking creation, &c. or being. poses of re 3. In any action or other proceeding at the instance Defences in 20 of any owner or occupier of uncultivated mountain or proceedings moor land, founded on alleged trespass, it shall be a for trespass. sufficient defence that the lands referred to were unculti vated mountain or moor land, that the defendant entered thereon only for the purposes of recreation or of scientific 25 or artistic study, and that no special damage resulted from the alleged trespass. A.D. 1928. Saving as to persons going on land for other purposes, &c. Saving as to parks and pleasure grounds. 4. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being excluded from any land from which he could, if this Act had not been passed, have been lawfully excluded, or shall enable any defence to be raised which cannot now be raised, in any of the following cases:— (a) Where any person goes upon land in pursuit of game or other wild birds, or for the purpose of taking eggs, or accompanied by a dog or carrying fire-arms: 5 (b) Where any person encamps on any land, or lights 10 (d) Where any person so disturbs any sheep or cattle 15 (e) Where any person goes on land with any malicious intent, or wantonly disturbs or annoys any person engaged on such land in any lawful 20 occupation. 5. Nothing in this Act shall apply— (a) To any land actually occupied and enjoyed as a park or pleasure ground in connexion with and in proximity to a dwelling-house; (b) To any plantation of young trees. 25 |