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Post Office Act 1892
(55 & 56 Vict c.24, 27th June 1892)

An Act to amend the Post Office Act, 1891, in relation to its application to Scotland, and to apply that Act to the Isle of Man and to the Channel Islands.
[27th June 1892]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. In the application of the Post Office Act, 1891, to Scotland, the following provisions shall have effect:–

  1. The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board:
  2. The local authority under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867 , being a town council or police commissioners, or trustees, exercising the powers of police commissioners shall be substituted for the council of a borough and an urban sanitary authority and the district of that authority for a borough or urban sanitary district:
  3. Any costs incurred under section seven of the said Act may be paid as expenses under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, are paid, and money may be borrowed for the purposes of the said section in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as money may be borrowed for the erection of hospitals under the Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1871 :
  4. The district committee, or, where a county has not been divided into districts under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 , the county council, shall be substituted for the rural sanitary authority, and the district of such committee or the county shall be substituted for the district of the rural sanitary authority, and a parish for a contributory place.
  5. Any costs incurred by reason of an undertaking under section eight of the said Act shall be defrayed as part of the expenditure of the district committee or county council, as the cue may be, under the Public Health Acts as defined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 , but the assessment for those costs shall be levied only within the parish or parishes in respect of which the expenses are incurred.

2. The Post Office Act, 1891 (with the exception of section eight of that Act), shall apply to the Isle of Man, with the following modifications:–

  1. The Tynwald Court of that Isle shall be substituted for the Local Government Board:
  2. A local government district shall be substituted for a borough or urban sanitary district, and the commissioners of a local government district for the council of a borough and for an urban sanitary authority:
  3. Any costs incurred under section seven of the said Act may be paid as expenses of the commissioners out of the district fund, and any money may be borrowed for the purposes of the said section in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as if those purposes were purposes of the Local Government Act, 1886, being an Act of the Legislature of the said Isle.

3. The Post Office Act, 1891 (with the exception of sections seven and eight of that Act), shall apply to the Channel Islands, and the Royal Courts of the Channel Islands shall register the same accordingly.

4. This Act may be cited as the Post Office Act, 1892.