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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
PART VIII.-PARKS AND RECREATION GROUNDS.
60. The marine parks shall be deemed to be parks or places of public resort or recreation to which all the provisions of the Public Health Acts and this Act are applicable as fully as if the same had been purchased by the Corporation under the powers of the Public Health Act 1875.
61. The Corporation during times of frost may for the purpose of protecting ice for skating on all or any part of any lake or piece of water in any park or place of public resort or recreation enclose such parts of such parks and places as may be necessary to effect such purpose and charge for admission to any part so enclosed.
62.-(1.) The Corporation may from time to time set apart portions of any park or place of public resort or recreation for the time being belonging to or held by them for cricket football archery and other games but so that the same shall be open to the public when not in use for such games and the Corporation may make byelaws for regulating the use of the portions of the park or place so set apart.
(2.) The Corporation may make byelaws for regulating skating and for preserving order during the sailing of model yachts upon any lake or piece of water in any such park or place of public resort or recreation.
63. The Corporation may provide swings gymnasium apparatus and apparatus for games and recreation for the use of the public frequenting the parks and places of public resort or recreation for the time being belonging to or held by the Corporation and may charge for the use thereof and they may lease or grant for any term not exceeding three years the right of providing and charging for such swings or apparatus on such terms and conditions as they think proper.
64. The Corporation may from time to time pay or contribute towards the payment of a band of music to perform in any park or place of public resort or recreation for the time being belonging to or held by the Corporation as they may prescribe and the Corporation may enclose an area within which such band shall play and may make byelaws for regulating the time and place for the playing of the band the payments to be made for admission within the said enclosure and for securing good and orderly conduct during the playing of the band Provided that the payments or contributions of the Corporation for or towards such band shall be paid out of the general district rate and shall not in any one year exceed
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