Town Gardens Protection Act 1863

4 Byelaws for management of garden, &c.E+W

Where any such garden or ground is managed by any committee of the inhabitants of any square, crescent, circus, street, or place, such committee may make, and from time to time revoke and alter, byelaws for the management of the same, and for the preservation of the trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, rails, fences, seats, summer-houses, and other things therein, which byelaws shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose by the committee, signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the same shall be passed, and which book shall and may be produced and read, and taken as evidence of such byelaws, in all courts whatever; and any inhabitant or servant, or other person admitted to such garden by any inhabitant, offending against the same, after they shall have been duly allowed as herein-after provided, upon proof thereof F1. . ., shall be liable [F2on summary conviction] for each offence to a penalty not exceeding [F3level 1 on the standard scale]: Provided always, that such byelaws shall not come into operation until the same shall have been allowed by some judge of one of the Superior Courts, or by [F4the Crown Court]; and it shall be incumbent on such judge or [F4the Crown Court], on the request of such committee, to inquire into any byelaws tendered to them for that purpose, and to allow or disallow the same as they think meet.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 4 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.IV.

F2Words in s. 4 inserted (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I para.5.

F4Words substituted by virtue of Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8, para. 2