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Part VII.
Definitions, Short Title, and Repeals.
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Interpretation of certain terms in the Act.
9 Geo. 4. c. 82. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 103.
48 & 49 Vict. c. 17.
11 & 12 Vict. c. 32.
51 & 52 Vict. c. 60.
56 Geo. 3. c. 87.
58 & 59 Vict. c. 8.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
59 & 60 Vict. c. 54.
42 & 43 Vict c. 25.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 56.
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109.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
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The expression “union” means a poor law union:
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The expression “borough” means a municipal borough having a town council:
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The expression “town” means the area comprised in any town or township having commissioners under the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, or the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or under any local Act:
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The expression “mayor” includes a lord mayor:
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The expression “guardians” means a board of guardians:
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The expression “presentment sessions” includes road sessions and special road sessions:
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The expressions “local authority” and “authority” respectively include a grand jury and presentment sessions:
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The expression “Local Government Board” means the Local Government Board for Ireland:
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The expression “Board of Control for lunatic asylums” means the Commissioners for General Control and Correspondence, and for the superintending and directing the erection, establishment, and regulation of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland:
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The expression “Commissioner of Valuation” means the Commissioner of Valuation and Boundary Surveyor:
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The expression “judge of assize” shall, as respects the county of Dublin, or the county of the city of Dublin, mean the High Court or any judge thereof:
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The expression “revising barrister” has the same meaning as in the Parliamentary Registration (Ireland) Act, 1885:
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The expression “high constable or collector of a barony” includes a collector for a district of a barony appointed under the County Cess (Ireland) Act, 1848:
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The expression “Local Taxation (Ireland) Account” has the same meaning as in the Probate Duties (Scotland and Ireland) Act, 1888:
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The expression “road” includes any bridge, pipe, arch, gullet, fence, railing, or wall forming part of such road:
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The expression “public work” means any road or work in respect of which, under the Grand Juries Acts, a presentment might but for this Act be made by any presentment sessions for a barony or county at large or any grand jury:
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The expression “maintenance,” when used in relation to any road or public work, includes the reasonable improvement and enlargement of such road or work:
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The expression “lunatic asylum” means an asylum for the lunatic poor under the Lunatic Asylums Acts:
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The expression “landlord,” when used with reference to land or other hereditaments, means the immediate lessor or other person receiving rent in respect of such land or hereditaments:
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The expression “holding” means any house or land or house and land held by a tenant of a landlord for the same term and under the same contract of tenancy:
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The expression “rateable value,” when used in relation to any hereditament or area, means the annual rateable value under the Valuation Acts of such hereditament, or of all the hereditaments comprised in such area:
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The expression “local government electors” means as respects any county or borough, district, electoral division, ward, or other area, the persons for the time being registered in the local government register of electors in respect of qualifications within such county, district, division, borough, ward, or other area:
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The expression “prescribed” means prescribed by the Local Government Board:
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The expression “existing” means, as respects any officer, an officer holding office on the last day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and also on the appointed day, and in any other case existing at the time specified in the enactment in which the expression is used, and if no such time is expressed, then at the appointed day for the coming into operation of such enactment:
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The expression “powers” includes rights, jurisdiction, capacities, privileges, and immunities:
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The expression “duties” includes responsibilities and obligations:
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The expression “powers and duties” includes all powers and duties conferred or imposed by or arising under any local Act:
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The expression “office” includes any office, situation, or employment, and the expression “officer” shall be construed accordingly:
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The expression “pensionable office” means an office coming within the provisions of any Act authorising the grant of a superannuation allowance:
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The expression “local financial year” means the twelve months ending the thirty-first day of March:
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The expression “Registration Acts” means the Acts and enactments relating to the registration of parliamentary voters in Ireland:
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The Grand Juries (Ireland) Acts, 1816 to 1895, are in this Act referred to as the Grand Juries Acts, and each of them is in this Act referred to as the Grand Juries Act of the year in which it was passed:
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The expression “Lunatic Asylum Acts” means the Acts specified in Part Two of the First Schedule to this Act:
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The Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1896, are in this Act referred to as the Public Health Acts, and each of them is in this Act referred to as the Public Health Act of the year in which it was passed:
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The expression “Medical Charities Acts” means the Acts so defined by the Dispensary Houses (Ireland) Act, 1879, and includes the last-mentioned Act:
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The expression “Valuation Acts” means the Acts specified in Part Three of the First Schedule to this Act:
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The expression “Dublin Metropolis Police Acts” means the Acts specified in Part Five of the First Schedule to this Act.
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Each of the Acts relating to the Dublin collection of rates specified in Part Four of the First Schedule to this Act is in this Act referred to by the short title in that schedule mentioned.
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(2) For the purposes of the Interpretation Act, 1889, this Act shall be deemed to be an Act amending the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838.
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