Explosives Act, 1875

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Police commissioners to be the local authority in certain cases.

112. The police commissioners of any burgh in Scotland, not being a burgh as defined by this Act, may, by order of a Secretary of State made upon the application of such commissioners and published in the Edinburgh Gazette, be declared to be a local authority for the purposes of this Act, and thereupon shall become the local authority accordingly for such part of their burgh as is not included in any harbour, to the exclusion of the justice of the peace for any county in which such burgh is situated: Provided that—

(a.) On such police commissioners becoming such local authority, the local rate for defraying their expenses under this Act shall be the police rate or assessment of the burgh; and

(b.) Such rate or assessment, or any increase thereof, may, notwithstanding any limitation in any Act, be levied for the purposes of this Act.