Municipal Corporations Act 1882

PART IIPayments which may not be made without Order.

1The [13 & 14 Vict. c. 42. s. 3.] expenses incurred by overseers, and by the town clerk and other municipal authorities, in relation to the enrolment of burgesses and the holding of municipal elections, or so much of those expenses as is not otherwise provided for under section thirty of the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 26.] Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878.

2The expenses incurred by the town clerk, in providing accommodation for an election court held under this Act.

3The expenses of providing, furnishing, maintaining, or improving the corporate buildings, including the justices room (if any), and the necessary expenses of that room.

4The fees payable to the clerk of the peace if not paid by salary, and under this Act to the borough coroner.

5The payments to be made under this Act to or in respect of the borough police and to any special constable, including the following payments (namely);

(a)Such salaries, wages, and allowances to the borough constables, and at such periods, as the watch committee, with the approbation of the council, direct; and

(b)Such further sum as may be awarded by the watch committee, subject to the approbation of the council, or by the court of quarter or petty sessions, to a borough constable as a reward for extraordinary diligence or exertion, or as a compensation for wounds or severe injuries received in the performance of his duty, or as may be awarded by the watch committee, subject to the approbation of the council, to a borough constable, as an allowance to him when disabled by bodily injury, or worn out by length of service; and

(c)Any extraordinary expenses which a borough constable appears to have necessarily incurred in apprehending offenders, and executing the orders of any justice having jurisdiction in the borough, such expenses haying been first examined and approved by that justice ; and

(d)All other charges and expenses which the watch committee, subject to the approbation of the council, direct to be paid for the purposes of the borough constabulary force.

6The costs and expenses payable by the corporation in respect of the prosecution, maintenance, conveyance, transport, or punishment of offenders.

7All sums payable under this Act by the corporation of the borough to the treasurer of a county.

8The expenses of and incidental to the division of a borough into wards or the alteration of wards, including the remuneration of the commissioner appointed for the purposes of the division or alteration.

9Such remuneration to the clerk to any commissioners for taxes in respect of making copies of assessments as the council think reasonable.

10The expenses of and relating to a charter of incorporation for a borough, and of and relating to all elections acts and proceedings under the charter.

11All expenses charged on the borough fund by any Act of Parliament or otherwise by law.

12All other expenses, not by this Act otherwise provided for, necessarily incurred in carrying this Act into effect