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V l.& Noven1ber, 1955.

BRITISH GU.LA.N.A ..

ORDINANCE No.

47 OF 1955. to amend the Local Government of British Guiana:- AN ORDINANCE Enacted by the Legislature Ordinance, 1945.

A.D. 1955.

1.This Ordinance may be cited as the Local Government 1955, and shall be cons.trued and read Short title.

Ordinance, (Amendment) as one with the Local Government referred r.mending to as the Principal the same.
2.Section dinance is hereby amended - one hundred and forty-five l Or­ of the Principa Ordinance ,1945, No.

14 of 1945. and any Ordinance hereinafter Ordinance, Amendment of secti'Jn 145 of the Principal Orclinance.
(a)by the repeal of subsection (2) ; and (b)by the insertion therein of the following sub- sections - " (2) Subject to the provisions 1934, any local authority dinance, of the Board do the following thing:s or in its district (a)give permission may, with the consent any of them with­ to any person to provide of the Public Health Or­ - No.

15 of 1934. place and ,construct a market veniences for the purpose of holding a market; a market house and other con­ (b)fix the stallages, taken in respect person.
rents and tolls which may be of the use of the market by any No.

47) ---------------------------- THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA {A.D. 1955.

-------------- ------------ ----------------- ------------- -------------- 2 (3)The local authority in (1) ai1d (2) of this section and to the approval for the purposes mentioned for the regula­ may, subject of the Board, make by-laws subsections tion of any market aforesaid.

(4)No person shall in any district provide a market house or other convenience,s a ma!
'ket for place or construct fhe purpose of holding tained the permission a market without fast having ob­ (5)No person shall in of the local authority respect demand or take or cause or permit to be in any district taken any stallage, the local authority rent or toll greater thereof.

(6)Any person who contravenes thereof so to do.

of the use of a market than that fixed ·by any of the provisions of subsection guilty of an offence against mary conviction thereof, dollars five hundred six months."
ceeding (4) or of subsection this Ordinance (5) of this section and shall, shall be on sum­ be liable to a fine not exceeding or to imprisonment for a term not ex­ Ordinance is hereby amended by the in- one hundred and forty-five of the of Insertio n of 3.The Princ�pal .

new section .

145A in the sert10n therem after sect10n Pri�cipal following _ 0rdmance.

"Continuing offence In respect construction of a market place or other con­ veniences for the pur­ pose of holding a n,arket without permission.
145A.

(1) Where the construction place or other conveniences for the purpose ing a market is an offence in respect the provisions offender is liable under the existence to a penalty, dinance tion in any form or state contravening, be deemed to be a continuing of hold­ whereof the of .

this Or­ of the construc­ 1 he same shall of a market offence.
(2)Where a construction of a market place of holding a for the purpose or maintained or other conveniences market is commenced of the provisions may order the person who causes the construction be commenced pay all eXPenses or maintained incurred to it down and to thereby.

to take of this Ordinance the magistrate in contravention witr (3)Where the order is not complied the Board may, at the expiration in the order cause the construction and recover from the owner the expenses so doing."
to be taken down incurred by of the time specified Passed by the Legislative Council this seventeenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.

(L.G.

24/8) (Le.g.

Bill No.

28/1955).

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