[Preamble.]
Interpretation.                                                                                1. In the interpretation and for the purposes of this Act, the following words shall have the meaning herein-after assigned to them; that is to say,
“Superior Courts of Law” shall for England mean the Supreme Courts of Law at Westminster, and for Ireland the Supreme Courts at Law at Dublin:
“Court of Queen's Bench” shall mean for England the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, and for Ireland the Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin.

Justices on application of a party aggrieved to: state a case for the opinion of Superior Court.  2. After the hearing and determination by a justice or justices of the peace of any information or complaint, which he or they have power to determine in a summary way by any law now in force or hereafter to be made, either party to the proceeding before the said justice or justices may, if dissatisfied with the said determination as being erroneous in point of law, apply in writing within three days after the same to the said justice or justices, to state and sign a case setting forth the facts and the grounds of such determination, for the opinion thereon of one of the Superior Courts of Law to be named by the party applying; and such party, herein-after called the appellant, shall, within three days after receiving such case, transmit the same to the court named in his application, first giving notice in writing of such appeal, with a copy of the case so stated and signed, to the other party to the proceeding in which the determination was given, herein-after called the respondent.

Security and notice to be giyen by the appellant.                                                 3. The appellant, at the time of making such application, and before a case shall be stated and delivered to him by the justice or justices, shall in every instance enter into a recognizance before such justice or justices, or any one or more of them, or any other justice exercising the same jurisdiction, with or without surety or sureties, and in such sum as to the justice or justices shall deem meet, conditioned to prosecute without delay such appeal, and to submit to the judgment of the Superior Court, and pay such costs as may be awarded by the same; and the appellant shall at the same time, and before he shall be entitled to have the case delivered to him, pay to the clerk to the said justice or justices his fees for and in respect of the case and recognizances, and any other fees to which such clerk shall be entitled; which fees, except such as are already provided for by law, shall be according to the schedule to this Act annexed marked (A), until the same shall be ascertained, appointed, and regulated in the manner prescribed by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, section thirty [1] ; and the appellant, if then in custody, shall be liberated upon the recognizance being further conditioned for his appearance before the same justice or justices, or, if that is impracticable, before some other justice or justices exercising the same jurisdiction who shall be then sitting, within ten days after the judgment of the Superior Court shall have been given, to abide such judgment, unless the determination appealed against be reversed.

11 & 12 Vict. c. 43. s. 30.
Justices may refuse a case where they think the application frivolous.                            4. If the justice or justices be of opinion that the application is merely frivolous, but not otherwise, he or they may refuse to state a case, and shall, on the request of the appellant, sign and deliver to him a certificate of such refusal: Provided, that the justice or justices shall not refuse to state a case where application for that purpose is made to them by or under the direction of Her Majesty's Attorney General for England or Ireland, as the case may be.

Where the justices refuse, the Court of Queen's Bench may by rule order a case to be stated.      5. Where the justice or justices shall refuse to state a case as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the appellant to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench, upon an affidavit of the facts, for a rule calling upon such justice or justices, and also upon the respondent, to show cause why such case should not be stated; and the said Court may make the same absolute or discharge it, with or without payment of costs, as to the Court shall seem meet; and the justice or justices, upon being served with such rule absolute, shall state a case accordingly, upon the appellant entering into such recognizance as is herein-before provided.

Superior Court to determine the questions on the case.                                            6. The Court to which a case is transmitted under this Act shall hear and determine the question or questions of law arising thereon, and shall thereupon reverse, affirm, or amend the determination in respect of which the case has been stated, or remit the matter to the justice or justices, with the opinion of the Court thereon, or may make such other order in relation to the matter, and may make such orders as to costs, as to the Court may seem fit; and all such orders shall be final and conclusive on all parties: Provided always, that no justice or justices of the peace, who shall state and deliver a case in pursuance of this Act, shall be liable to any costs in respect or by reason of such appeal against his or their determination.

Case may be sent back for amendment.                                                              7. The Court for the opinion of which a case is stated shall have power, if they think fit, to cause the case to be sent back for amendment; and thereupon the same shall be amended accordingly, and judgment shall be delivered after it shall have been amended.

Jurisdiction of judge at chambers.                                                                8. The authority and jurisdiction hereby vested in a Superior Court for the opinion of which a case is stated under this Act shall and may (subject to any rules and orders of such Court in relation thereto) be exercised by a judge of such Court sitting in chambers, and as well in vacation as in term time.

After the decision of Superior Court, justices may issue warrants.                                9. After the decision of the Superior Court in relation to any case stated for their opinion under this Act, the justice or justices in relation to whose determination the case has been stated, or any other justice or justices of the peace exercising the same jurisdiction, shall have the same authority to enforce any conviction or order, which may have been affirmed, amended, or made by such Superior Court, as the justice or justices who originally decided the case would have had to enforce his or their determination if the same had not been appealed against; and no action or proceeding whatsoever shall be commenced or had against the justice or justices for enforcing such conviction or order, by reason of any defect in the same respectively.

Certiorari not to be required for proceedings under this Act.                                     10. No writ of certiorari or other writ shall be required for the removal of any conviction, order, or other determination in relation to which a case is stated under this Act, or otherwise for obtaining the judgment or determination of the Superior Court on such case under this Act.

Rules for proceedings.                                                                            11. The Superior Courts of Law may from time to time, and as often as they shall see occasion, make and alter rules and orders to regulate the practice and proceedings in reference to the cases herein-before mentioned.

“Justices” to include a stipendiary magistrate.                                                   12. The words “justice or justices” in this Act shall include a magistrate of the police courts of the Metropolis and any stipendiary magistrate.

Recognizances how to be enforced.                                                                 13. In all cases where the conditions, or any of them, in the said recognizance mentioned, shall not have been complied with, the justice or justices who shall have taken the same, or any other justice or justices, shall certify upon the back of the recognizance in what respect the conditions thereof have not been observed, and transmit the same to the clerk of the peace of the county, riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place within which such recognizance shall have been taken, to be proceeded upon in like manner as other recognizances forfeited at quarter sessions may now by law be enforced; and such certificate shall be deemed sufficient primâ facie evidence of the said recognizance having been forfeited: Provided, that where any such recognizances shall have been taken in England before a magistrate of the police courts of the Metropolis, or by any stipendiary magistrate, all sums of money in which any person or persons shall be therein bound may, if the said magistrate shall think fit, be levied, upon such recognizance being forfeited, and on nonpayment thereof, together with the costs of the proceedings to enforce such payment, in the same manner as a police magistrate of the Metropolis is now empowered to recover any penalty, forfeiture, or sum of money, by section forty-five of the Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839; and that all and every the provisions and enactments contained in the said section forty-five shall extend to and be applicable to this Act, in as ample a manner as if they had been herein re-enacted and made part of the same.

2 & 3 Vict. c. 71. s. 45.
No appeal to quarter sessions.                                                                    14. Any person who shall appeal under the provisions of this Act against any determination of a justice or justices of the peace, from which he is by law entitled to appeal to the quarter sessions, shall be taken to have abandoned such last-mentioned right of appeal, finally and conclusively, and to all intents and purposes.

Extent of Act.                                                                                15. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

Schedule (A.).
Sect. 3 .
Fees to be taken by Clerks to Justices.                                                                 s.  d.

For drawing case and copy, where the case does not exceed five folios of ninety words each - - - - - -  10  0
Where the case exceeds five folios, then for every additional folio - - - - - -                         1   0
For the recognizance to be taken in pursuance of the Act -                                              5   0
For every enlargement or renewal thereof - - - -                                                        2   6
For certificate of refusal of case - - - -                                                              2   0
[1 Section 30 of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, so far as relates to Clerks of Justices of the Peace, is rep. by 40 & 41 Vict. c. 43. s. 8, which substitutes other provisions.


Be it enacted by the King’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:
Punishment of corrupt transactions with agents.  1.—(1) If any agent corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the passing of this Act done or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal’s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal’s affairs or business; or
If any person corruptly gives or agrees to give or offers any gift or consideration to any agent as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the passing of this Act done or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal’s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal’s affairs or business; or
If any person knowingly gives to any agent, or if any agent knowingly uses with intent to deceive his principal, any receipt, account, or other document in respect of which the principal is interested, and which contains any statement which is false or erroneous or defective in any material particular, and which to his knowledge is intended to mislead the principal;
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine, or on summary conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding four months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.

(2) For the purposes of this Act the expression “consideration” includes valuable consideration of any kind; the expression “agent” includes any person employed by or acting for another; and the expression “principal” includes an employer.
(3) A person serving under the Crown or under any corporation or any municipal, borough, county, or district council, or any board of guardians, is an agent within the meaning of this Act.

Prosecution of offences.                         2.—(1) A prosecution for an offence under this Act shall not be instituted without the consent, in England of the Attorney-General or Solicitor-General, and in Ireland of the Attorney-General or Solicitor-General for Ireland.

22 & 23 Vict. c. 17.
(2) The Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall apply to offences under this Act as if they were included among the offences mentioned in section one of that Act.
(3) Every information for any offence under this Act shall be upon oath.
(4) The expenses of any prosecution on indictment under this Act shall be defrayed as in cases of indictment for felony.
(5) A court of quarter sessions shall not have jurisdiction to inquire of, hear, and determine prosecutions on indictments for offences under this Act.
(6) Any person aggrieved by a summary conviction under this Act may appeal to a court of quarter sessions.

Application to Scotland.                         3. This Act shall extend to Scotland, subject to the following modifications:—
(1) Section two shall not extend to Scotland:
(2) In Scotland all offences which are punishable under this Act on summary conviction shall be prosecuted before the sheriff in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts.

Short title and commencement.                    4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and seven.


Be it enacted by the King’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:
Prohibition of use of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches.  1.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to use white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches, and any factory in which white phosphorus is so used shall be deemed to be a factory not kept in conformity with the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and that Act shall apply accordingly.

1 Edw. 7. c. 22.
(2) The occupier of any factory in which the manufacture of matches is carried on shall allow an inspector under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, at any time to take for analysis sufficient samples of any material in use or mixed for use, and, if he refuses to do so, shall be guilty of obstructing the inspector in the execution of his duties under that Act:
Provided that the occupier may, at the time when the sample is taken, and on providing the necessary appliances, require the inspector to divide the sample so taken into two parts and to mark, seal, and deliver to him one part.

Prohibition of sale.                                               2. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or to offer or expose for sale or to have in his possession for the purposes of sale any matches made with white phosphorus, and, if any person contravenes the provisions of this section, he may on complaint to a court of summary jurisdiction be ordered to forfeit any such matches in his possession, and any matches so forfeited shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit, but this provision shall not come into operation as respects any retail dealer until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven.

Prohibition of importation.                                        3. It shall not be lawful to import into the United Kingdom matches made with white phosphorus, and matches so made shall be included amongst the goods enumerated and described in the table of prohibitions and restrictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.

39 & 40 Vict. c. 36.
Compulsory licence to use patents.                                 4.—(1) Any person who is manufacturing or proposing to manufacture matches by way of trade may present a petition to the Board of Trade, praying for the grant of a compulsory licence to use any process patented at the passing of this Act for the manufacture of matches without white phosphorus, other than matches intended to strike only on a surface specially prepared for the purpose.

7 Edw. 7. c. 29.
37 & 38 Vict. c. 40.
(2) The Board of Trade, after considering any representations that may be made by the patentee as defined by the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, and any person claiming an interest in the patent as exclusive licensee or otherwise, and, after consultation with the Secretary of State, may order the patentee to grant a licence to the petitioner on such terms as the Board may think just. The provisions of the Board of Trade Arbitrations, &c., Act, 1874, shall apply to proceedings under this section as if this Act were a special Act within the meaning of that Act.
(3) An order of the Board directing the grant of a licence under this section shall, without prejudice to any other method of enforcement, operate as if it were embodied in a deed granting a licence and made between the petitioner and the patentee and such other persons claiming an interest in the patent as aforesaid.

Short title, commencement, and construction.                       5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1908, and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten.

(2) For the purposes of this Act the expression “white phosphorus” means the substance usually known as white or yellow phosphorus.