Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Interpretation.

3 & 4 Vict. c. 108.

29 & 30 Vict. c. 44.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 28.

31 & 32 Vict. c. 130.

26 & 27 Vict. c. 40.

29 & 30 Vict. c. 90.

9 & 10 Vict. c. 87.

19 & 20 Vict. c. 98.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

23&24 Vict.c. 106.

14&15 Vict.c. 70.

23&24 Vict.c. 97.

27&28 Vict.c. 71.

14&15 Vict.c. 70.

1 & 2 Vict. c. 56.

2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; (that is to say,)

Borough” means any place for the time being subject to the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840, and any Act amending the same:

Local Government Board” means the Local Government Board for Ireland:

Person” includes any body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate:

Sanitary authority” means urban sanitary authority or rural sanitary authority, as by this Act defined, as the case may be:

Lands” and “premises” include messuages, buildings, lands, easements, and hereditaments of any tenure:

Owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent:

Rackrent” means rent which is not less than two thirds of the full net annual value of the property out of which the rent arises as ascertained under the Acts relating to the valuation of rateable property in Ireland:

Street” includes any highway and any public bridge and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not:

House” includes schools, and also factories and other buildings in which persons are employed, whatever their number may be:

Drain” means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only or of premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed:

Sewer” includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word “drain” interpreted as aforesaid applies, and except drains vested in or under the control of any authority having the management of roads and not being a sanitary authority under this Act:

Slaughter-house” includes the buildings and places commonly called slaughter-houses and knackers yards, and any building or place used for slaughtering cattle, horses, or animals of any description for sale:

Common lodging-house” means a house in which or in any part of which persons are harboured or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at a time:

Water company” means any person or body of persons corporate or unincorporate supplying or who may hereafter supply water for his or their own profit:

Waterworks” includes streams springs wells pumps reservoirs cisterns tanks aqueduct cuts sluices mains pipes culverts engines, and all machinery, lands, buildings, and things for supplying or used for supplying water, also the stock in trade of any water company:

Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Acts” means the [1] Labouring Classes Lodging Houses and Dwellings Act (Ireland), 1866, and the [1] Labouring Classes Dwelling Houses Act, 1867:

[1] “Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act” means the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1868:

[2] Bakehouse Regulation Act” means the Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863:

Diseases Prevention Act” means the [1] Diseases Prevention Act, 1855, as amended by [2] 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77 (An Act to amend the Acts for the removal of nuisances and the prevention of diseases), as the same are amended and extended to Ireland by the [2] Sanitary Act, 1866:

Baths and Wash-houses Acts” means the Baths and Wash-houses (Ireland) Act, 1846:

Sanitary Acts” means all the above-mentioned Acts and the Acts [3] mentioned in the Schedule A. to this Act annexed except the Burial Grounds Acts as herein-after defined, and includes any amendments of such Acts contained in this or any other Act; and, with respect to any urban sanitary district, includes any Act, local Act, or provisional order relating to the same subject matters as the above-mentioned Acts in force within such district:

Sanitary purposes” means any objects or purposes of the Sanitary Acts:

Burial Grounds Acts” means the [2] Burial Grounds (Ireland) Act, 1856, as the same is amended by the [2] 23 & 24 Vict. c. 76:

Lands Clauses Acts” means and includes the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as the same is amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1851; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1860; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1864, and the Railway Traverse Act:

Poor Law Acts” means the Poor Relief Ireland Act, 1838, and the Acts amending the same:

Chairman” includes recorder:

Court of quarter sessions” means the court of general or quarter sessions of the peace having jurisdiction over the whole or any part of the district or place in which the matter requiring the cognizance of general or quarter sessions arises, and when used in reference to any suit or proceeding prosecuted or taken in any borough in which there shall be a recorder having jurisdiction to hear appeals from rates, or from any order conviction or judgment of any court of summary jurisdiction, includes the court of such recorder.

[1 This Act is rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 70. s. 102.]

[2 This Act is rep. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 16. s. 107: but see s. 102.]

[1 This Act is rep. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 19 (S.L.R.)]

[2 This Act is rep. as to I. by this Act.]

[3 These Acts are as follows: 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28; 16 & 17 Vict. c. 41; 23 & 24 Vict. cc. 26, 77; 17 & 18 Vict. c. 103; 18 & 19 Vict. cc. 116, 121; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 117; 28 & 29 Vict. c. 75; 29 & 30 Vict. cc. 41, 90; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 113; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 115; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 100; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 109; 35 & 36 Vict. c. 69; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 78; 37 & 38 Vict. c. 93.]