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APPENDIX.
STATUTORY Rules and ORDERS, ETC.
A.-Regulations made by the Secretary of State under the Children (Employment Abroad) Act, 1913. (S.R.O. 885 of 1913.)
In pursuance of the powers conferred on me by Section 2 of the Children (Employment Abroad) Act, 1913,
(1) I prescribe the annexed form of licence* for use under that section. (2) I make the following regulation:
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The particulars to be sent by a police magistrate to the Secretary of State for transmission to the proper consular officer where a licence is granted for a young person to go out of the United Kingdom for the purpose of singing, playing, performing, or being exhibited, for profit, shall be as follows :—
(a) The name and address of the young person.
(b) The date and place of birth, and, where known, the nationality
of the young person.
(c) The name and address of the applicant for the licence.
(d) Where the father, mother, or guardian is not the applicant for the
licence, the name and address of the father, mother or guardian.
(e) Particulars of the engagement, with the place or places at which and the period or periods during which the young person is to sing, play, perform, or be exhibited.
(f) Copy of the contract of employment or other document showing the
terms and conditions of employment.
(g) Copy of the licence.
WHITEHALL,
27th August, 1913.
R. MCKENNA,
One of His Majesty's Principai Secretaries of State.
B.-Regulations made by the Secretary of State under the Police (Property)
Act, 1897.
1. All property which has come into the possession of the Police under the circumstances mentioned in Section 1 of the Police (Property) Act, 1897, where the owner has not been ascertained, and no order of a competent court has been made with respect thereto, shall be dealt with as follows:-
(a) When such property is a perishable article, or its custody involves unreasonable expense or inconvenience, the same shall be sold as soon as conveniently may be after the same has come into the possession of the Police.
(b) When such property consists of money, the same shall be dealt with in all respects as is hereinafter provided with regard to the proceeds of sales hereby authorised, after the same has remained in the possession of the Police for one year.
(c) In the case of any property, the same shall be sold as soon as may be after the same has remained in the possession of the Police for one year.
* Form of Licence not printed.
2. The proceeds of all sales hereby authorised shall forthwith be paid to the Treasurer of the Police Fund, or to the chief officer of police, as may be directed by the Police Authority, and shall by him he kept in a separate account, to be called the Prisoners' Property Fund.
3. The Prisoners' Property Fund, or any part thereof, may be invested in any securities authorised by the Trustee Act, 1893, in such name or names as the Police Authority may direct; and the income derived from the investments shall be added to, and become part of, the Fund. And the Police Authority may at any time authorise the sale of such securities, for the purpose either of re-investing the proceeds, or of making payments under the Regulations.
4. The moneys standing to the credit of the Fund, whether income or capital, shall be applicable :
(i) to defray expenses incurred in the conveyance, storage, and safe custody of the property, in advertising it with a view to find the lawful owner in preparing it for sale, and selling it, and otherwise in executing the regulations;
(ii) to pay reasonable compensation, the amount of which shall be fixed by the Police Authority (or the chief officer of police acting under the general or special direction of the Police Authority) to persons by whom property has been delivered to the Police;
(iii) for any other purpose which the Secretary of State may from time to
time expressly authorise.
Payments may also be made from the Fund, at the discretion of the Police Authority, for the benefit of discharged prisoners, or persons dependent on prisoners, or discharged prisoners, either directly, or (if the Police Authority think fit) by contributions to the Funds of any Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, or of any Police Court Mission, or Police Court Poor Box.
5. The Prisoners' Property Fund shall be audited by an Auditor, to be nominated in that behalf from time to time by the Police Authority.
Home Office,
Whitehall,
14th February, 1898.
M. W. RIDLEY,
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
C.--Regulations under the Prosecution of Offences Acts, 1879 and 1884, respecting
the Director of Public Prosecutions.
(1) The cases in which it shall be the duty of the Director of Public Prosecutions to institute, undertake, or carry on a criminal proceeding in respect of an offence are the following:
(a) Where the offence is punishable with death;
(b) Where the offence is of a class the prosecution of which has hitherto
been undertaken by the Solicitor of the Treasury;
(c) Where an order in that behalf is given to the Director by the Secretary
of State or the Attorney-General; and
(d) Where it appears to the Director that the offence or the circum- stances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest, and that owing to the importance or difficulty of the case or to other circumstances the action of the Director of Public Prosecutions is necessary to secure the due prosecution of the offender.
(2) The proceedings to be instituted, undertaken, or carried on in any of the above cases shall be such as the Director of Public Prosecutions considers to be necessary to secure the due prosecution of the offender.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Prosecutions, either on application or on his own initiative, to give in any case which appears to him to be of importance or difficulty advice to clerks of justices of the peace and
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