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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
the amount thereof is not otherwise provided for such amount shall in case of dispute be ascertained in the manner provided for by the Public Health Acts Provided that where any such compensation costs damages or expenses is or are directed or authorised to be paid or recovered in addition to any penalty for any offence in this Act mentioned the amount of such compensation costs damages or expenses in case of dispute may be ascertained by the court before whom any offender is convicted
203. The Corporation when they are required by any enactment to make compensation to any person interested in any lands may by agreement with such person make such compensation wholly or partly in works land or money but in the case of land for the alienation of which the consent of any public department is required only with such consent.
204. Nothing in this Act shall protect any person from being proceeded against by way of indictment in respect of any matter by this Act made punishable on summary proceedings or shall relieve any person in respect of any such matter from any penal or other consequence to which he would have been liable if such matter had not been made punishable by this Act Provided that nothing in this Act shall make a person liable to be punished more than once for the same offence.
205. A judge of any court or a justice shall not be disqualified from acting in the execution of this Act by reason of his being liable to any rate.
206. All powers rights and remedies given to the Corporation by this Act shall (except where otherwise expressly provided) be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers rights or remedies conferred on them by the Public Health Acts and the Municipal Corporations Acts or any of them and the Corporation may exercise such other powers and be entitled to such other rights and remedies as if this Act had not been passed Provided that no person shall incur more than one penalty (other than a daily penalty for a continuing offence) for the commission of the same offence.
207. The provisions of the Municipal Corporations Acts relating to the keeping and auditing of accounts and the accounts kept of sums of money received and paid under those Acts shall as amended by this Act extend and apply to the keeping and auditing of accounts and to the accounts kept of sums of money received and paid under this Act.
208.-(1.) The Local Government Board may direct any inquiries to be held by their inspectors which they may deem necessary for
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