Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887

Application of Act to Scotland.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 101.

35 & 36 Vict. c. 62.

76. In the application of this Act to Scotland—

(1) The term “Attorney General” means the Lord Advocate:

(2) The term “injunction” means interdict:

(3) The term “misdemeanour” means “crime and offence”:

(4) The term “chairman of quarter sessions” means the sheriff of the county:

(5) The term “sheriff” includes sheriff substitute:

(6) The term “attending on subpœna before a court of record” means attending on citation the Court of Justiciary:

(7) The auditor of the sheriff court of the county or district of a county in which any inquiry takes place shall perform the duties of a master of one of the superior courts under this Act:

(8) “County court judge, police magistrate, stipendiary magistrate, recorder, or registrar of a county court” means a sheriff or sheriff substitute:

(9) Notices of explosions, accidents, loss of life, or personal injury shall be deemed to be sent to the inspector of the district on behalf of the Lord Advocate:

(10) Sections forty-one and sixteen of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,[1] shall respectively be substituted for sections thirty-eight and ninety-one of the Public Health Act, 1875:

(11) The term “public elementary school” means State-aided school.

Nothing in this Act shall affect any provision in the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883.

[1 Rep. 60 & 61 Vict. c. 38, s. 196. See now that Act.]