Embankments and Reservoirs. A BILL ΤΟ Provide for the inspection and maintenance of A.D. 1927. dams, embankments and reservoirs, and for other purposes relating thereto. E it 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, 5 as follows: 1. The Secretary of State may at any time inspect Power of any dam, embankment or reservoir, whether completed inspection of dams, &c. or in course of construction, and shall for the purpose aforesaid have right of access to all such dams, embank10 ments or reservoirs or any part thereof and to the land adjoining or adjacent thereto, and shall have the right to take all such measurements and make such inquiries as he thinks fit and shall have the right to call for all plans, specifications and measurements relating to such 15 dams, embankments or reservoirs. 2. In case any dam, embankment or reservoir shall Provisions be found defective or dangerous, either during con- as to remedy struction or after completion, the Secretary of State of defects. shall have the right to call on the owner or owners 20 thereof or the person or persons on whose land such dam, embankment or reservoir is situated to remedy such defect upon notice being given in writing. 3. Any contravention of any order made by the Penalties. Secretary of State under this Act shall make the person 5 Embankments and Reservoirs. for the first offence, of one hundred pounds for every A.D. 1927. or persons contravening such order liable to a penalty, day during which such breach of the law continues, and, in case of a second offence, to three months' imprisonment without the option of a fine. Short title. 4. This Act may be cited as the Inspection of Dams, Embankments and Reservoirs Act, 1927. To provide for the inspection and Mr. Ellis Davies, Mr. Haydn Jones, Mr. Hayes, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 24 February 1927. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Duties on wines. 2. Duty on sweets. 3. Duties on spirits. 6. Duties on tobacco. 8. Duties on cocoa. 9. Duties on silk. 10. Duty on lace. 11. Duties on motor cars, &c. 12. Duties on musical instruments, clocks, watches, films, &c. 13. Duties on cutlery, gloves, and mantles for incandescent lighting. 14. 15. Duty on translucent or vitrified pottery. Amendment of s. 13 of 16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 27. 16. Power to vary or amend exemption orders. 17. Short title and repeal. SCHEDULES. 1 A BILL ΤΟ Amend the law with respect to customs in the B E it 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 5 as follows: A.D. 1927. 1.-(1) On and from the twenty-fourth day of May, Duties on nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, in lieu of the wine. customs duties theretofore payable on wines, there shall, until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and 10 twenty-eight, be charged, levied and paid on wines removed or imported into the Isle of Man, in the case of wines of the description specified in the first column of the table contained in Part I. of the First Schedule to this Act and not being Empire products, duties at 15 the rates respectively specified in the second column of that table, and in the case of wines of the description specified in the first column of the table contained in Part II. of the said schedule and being Empire products, duties at the rates respectively specified in the second 20 column of that table. (2) Subsection (2) of section eight of the Customs 53 & 54 Vict. and Inland Revenue Act, 1890 (which provides that wine c. 8. rendered sparkling in warehouse is to be deemed to be sparkling wine for the purpose of a certain duty imposed 25 on sparkling wine), shall apply for the purpose of the duty imposed on sparkling wine by this section as it |