Revenue Act, 1869

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Provisions and regulations to be observed.

19. The provisions and regulations contained in this section shall be observed, viz. :

(1.) It shall not be necessary for any member of the Royal Family to make any declaration or to take out any licence under this Act, nor shall it be necessary for the sheriff of any county, or mayor or other officer in any corporation or royal burgh serving an annual office therein, to take out a licence for any servants, carriages, employed or kept by him for the purposes of his office during his year of service, nor for any person who shall by right of office wear or use any of the arms or insignia of any member of the Royal Family, or of any corporation or royal burgh, to take out a licence in respect of the use of such arms or insignia :

(2.) It shall not be necessary for any person ordinarily residing in Ireland, and being a representative peer on the part of Ireland or a member of the House of Commons, and not residing in Great Britain longer than during the session of Parliament, and forty days before and forty days after the session, or for any person ordinarily residing in Ireland and residing in Great Britain by the order or direction of the Lord Lieutenant or of his chief secretary, for the purpose of public business, to make any declaration or to take out any licence under this Act in respect of any servants, carriages, or armorial bearings employed, kept, or used by him, save in respect of any subject matter of duty which shall be employed, kept, or used by such person in Great Britain during his residence in Ireland :

(3.)[¹] The term “male servant” means and includes any male servant employed either wholly or partially in any of the following capacities; that is to say, maôtre d’hôtel, house steward, master of the horse, groom of the chambers, valet de chambre, butler, under butler, clerk of the kitchen, confectioner, cook, house porter, footman, page, waiter, coachman, groom, postilion, stable boy or helper in the stables, gardener, under gardener, park keeper, gamekeeper, under gamekeeper, huntsman, and whipper-in, or in any capacity involving the duties of any of the above descriptions of servants, by whatever style the person acting in such capacity may be called :

(4.) Every person who shall furnish any male servant on hire shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the employer of such servant :

(5.) It shall not be necessary for licences to be taken out in the following cases, viz. ;

By any officer in Her Majesty's army or navy for any servant, being a soldier in the army or a person actually borne upon the books of a ship, and employed by such officer in accordance with the regulations of Her Majesty's service :

By any licensed retailer of exciseable liquors or licensed keeper of a refreshment house for any servant employed by him solely for the purposes of his business, such servant being the only male servant employed by him :

By any person who shall have made entry of his premises in accordance with section twenty-eight of this Act for any servant employed by him at such premises in the course of his trade, other than a servant employed to drive a carriage with any horse let to hire for any period exceeding twenty-eight days; provided that such person shall have complied with all the provisions contained in the said section :

By any person duly licensed by proper authority to keep or use any public stage or hackney carriage for any servant necessarily employed by him to drive such stage or hackney carriage, or in the care of such stage or hackney carriage or of the horse or horses kept and used by him to draw the same :

[Subs. (6) rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 8. s. 26. Subs. (7) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 23. s. 11. Subs. 8–12 and the whole Act as to duties and licences for horses, mules or horsedealers, rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 16. s. 21.]

As to Armorial Bearings.

(13.) “Armorial bearings” means and includes any armorial bearing, crest, or ensign, by whatever name the same shall be called, and whether such armorial bearing, crest, or ensign shall be registered in the College of Arms or not :

(14.) Any person who shall keep any carriage, whether owned or hired by him, shall be deemed to wear and use any armorial bearings painted or marked thereon or affixed thereto :

(15.) It shall not be necessary for a licence to be taken out by any person duly licensed by proper authority to keep or use any public stage or hackney carriage for any armorial bearings painted or marked on such stage or hackney carriage.

[¹ This definition is amended 39 & 40 Vict. c. 16. s. 5.]