15 & 16 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 50. to a court of summary jurisdiction for an order authorising him to register himself as a theatrical employer, and the court may thereupon, if satisfied that such person should be registered, make such order subject to such conditions as to the court may seem fit: Provided that no order shall be made under this section unless a period of at least three years has elapsed since the former registration was cancelled. 10. CERTAIN CONVICTED PERSONS NOT TO ACT AS SERVANTS OR AGENTS FOR THEATRICAL EMPLOYERS. - Any person whose registration as a theatrical employer is cancelled shall be guilty of an offence under this Act if at any time while he remains unregistered he acts as agent for a theatrical employer. 11. APPLICATION. - This Act shall not apply (a) To any person to whom, or to whose agent, a licence under section seven of the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), or a licence for music and dancing has been granted, but only so long as such licence remains in force: (b) To any person who not for gain or in the way of business employs or engages theatrical performers for performances in aid of charitable objects or other similar purposes. 12. RULES AND EXPENSES.-(1) The Secretary of State may make rules for prescribing anything which is to be prescribed under this Act, and generally for carrying this Act into effect. (2) Any expenses of a registration authority under this Act, as far as not covered by fees, shall be defrayed in the case of the Common Council of the City of London out of the general rate, in the case of the council of a county borough out of the borough fund or borough rate, and in the case of the council of a county out of the county fund. 13. INTERPRETATION. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "theatrical employer" means any person who by himself or any agent engages or employs at any one time three or more theatrical performers. دو The expression "theatrical performer includes any actor, singer, dancer, acrobat or performer of any kind employed to act, sing, dance, play or perform in any theatre, music hall or other place of public entertainment, or to rehearse with a view to so acting, singing, dancing, playing or performing, as well as any person employed to take part in the acting or representation of any play, act, event or scene being photographed or otherwise recorded as a picture or pictures or other optical effect suitable or intended for being exhibited by means of a cinematograph or other similar apparatus; and the term theatrical performer shall include all persons employed or engaged for purposes of a chorus or crowd, but shall not include stage hands and members of an orchestra. The expression "registration authority means As respects the City of London, the common council; As respects any county borough, the council of the borough ; The expression "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the Secretary of State. 14. APPLICATION TO SCOTLAND. - This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications: (1) The expression "county borough" shall mean a burgh having according to the census of nineteen hundred and twenty-one a population of or exceeding fifty thousand, and all other burghs shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be within the county: (2) The expenses incurred by a town or county council under this Act shall, so far as not met out of fees, be defrayed in the case of a town council out of the burgh general or police assessment and in the case of a county council out of the general purposes rate, provided that with respect to every burgh, which is for the purposes of this Act deemed to be within the county, subsections (3) and (4) of section sixty and section sixty-six of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 50), shall, so far as THEATRICAL EMPLOYERS REGISTRATION ACT, 1925. applicable, have effect as if such expenses were expenditure therein mentioned: 66 (3) The expression court of summary jurisdiction" shall mean the sheriff, and the provisions regarding appeal to a court of quarter sessions shall not apply: 66 (4) The expression a licence for music and dancing" shall mean a licence granted under section three hundred and ninety-five of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55). 15. SHORT TITLE. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Theatrical Employers Registration Act, 1925. (2) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland. CHAPTER LI. An Act to amend the law relating to Separation and Maintenance Orders. CHAPTER LII. [31st July 1925.] An Act to amend the law with respect to the regulation of Advertisements. a [Preamble.] [31st July 1925.] 1. EXTENDED POWERS OF MAKING BYELAWS. - (1) The powers of a local authority under section two of the Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27) (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), shall include powers to make byelaws for regulating, restricting or preventing within their district or any part thereof the exhibition of advertisements so as to disfigure or injuriously affect (a) the view of rural scenery from a highway or railway, or from any public place or water; or (b) the amenities of any village within the district of a rural district council; or (c) the amenities of any historic or public building or monument or of any place frequented by the public solely or chiefly on account of its beauty or historic interest. (2) In the principal Act and in this Act the expression "advertisements" includes any structure or apparatus erected or intended only for the display of advertisements. (3) This section shall not apply to the exhibition of advertisements on or upon any railway station, yard, platform or railway approach belonging to a railway company, or except within the district of a rural district council upon any dock, quay, pier, landing stage, wharf, lock or toll station belonging to any harbour, dock or canal undertaking. 2. DELEGATION OF POWERS BY COUNTY COUNCILS TO DISTRICT COUNCILS.[Not applicable to Scotland. -ED.] 3. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION AND EXTENT. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, and shall be read as one with the principal Act, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Advertisements Regulation Acts, 1907 and 1925. (2) References in this Act to the principal Act shall be construed as references to that Act as amended by this Act. (3) In the application of this Act to Scotland references to the district of a rural district council shall be construed as references to a county exclusive of any burgh situated therein. (4) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland. 15 & 16 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 53. CHAPTER LIII. An Act to amend section seven of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, for the purpose of enabling a defective to be removed from an institution for the purpose of being placed under guardianship. [31st July 1925.] [Preamble.] 1. AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 5, c. 28, s. 7: "VARIATION OF ORDERS."-Section seven of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, shall have effect as though the following subsection were inserted after subsection (2) of that section : "2. (a) Where an order has been made that a defective be sent to an institution, the judicial authority which made the order, or any other judicial authority, or, where the original order was not made by a judicial authority, any judicial authority may, on application being made for the purpose by the Board or by the local authority, and on being satisfied that the case is or has become one suitable for guardianship, order that the defective be placed under guardianship.” 2. SHORT TITLE. - This Act may be cited as the Mental Deficiency (Amendment) Act, 1925. CHAPTER LIV. An Act to remove the disqualification of ministers of religion for being borough councillors. [31st July 1925.] [Preamble.] 1. REMOVAL OF DISQUALIFICATIONS. From the passing of this Act no person shall be disqualified for being elected or being a councillor of a borough by reason only that he is in holy orders or the regular minister of a dissenting congregation. 2. SHORT TITLE.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of Religion (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1925. REPEAL OF 45 & 46 ѴІст. с. 50, s. 12, SUBS. (1), PARA. (b).-(2) Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section twelve of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, is hereby repealed. (3) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland. CHAPTER LV. An Act to make further provision with regard to the grant of superannuation and other allowances to teachers in Scotland and to their legal personal representatives, and to the payment of contributions towards the cost of such allowances. [31st July 1925.] [Preamble.] 1. EXTENSION OF PERIOD DURING WHICH CONTRIBUTIONS BY OR IN RESPECT OF TEACHERS ARE TO BE PAYABLE. -The period during which contributions shall be payable under section one of the Act of 1922 as amended by the Act of 1924, towards the cost of providing benefits under the Superannuation Scheme shall be extended until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and in the said Acts, or in any amending Scheme framed and approved in pursuance of the first mentioned Act, any reference to section one of the said Act shall be construed as a reference to the said section as amended by the Act of 1924 and by this Act. 2. CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS BENEFITS UNDER SUPERANNUATION SCHEME.-(1) As from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, there shall be paid in each year to the Department towards the cost of providing benefits under the EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (SUPERANNUATION) ACT, 1925. Superannuation Scheme, in respect of every teacher employed in service within the meaning of such scheme the following contributions : (a) an amount to be paid by the teacher equal to five per centum of his salary for the time being; (b) an amount to be paid by the education authority, governing body or other body of managers by whom the teacher is employed, equal to five per centum of the salary for the time being of the teacher. (2) The payments due in terms of the foregoing subsection shall be collected by the Department from each education authority, governing body or other body of managers either directly or by deduction from any grants that may accrue under any regulations, code or minute of the Department, and it shall be lawful for each education authority, governing body or other body of managers to deduct five per centum from the salary of every teacher in their employment in respect of whom payments are due under the foregoing subsection : Provided that, where any payment due by a teacher has not been so deducted and collected, the same (together with compound interest thereon from the date when the payment became due, calculated at four per centum per annum with yearly rests) shall be recoverable by the Department either directly from the teacher or by deduction from any sum payable to him or to his legal personal representatives under the Superannuation Scheme. (3) For the purposes of this section the salary of a teacher shall be calculated in accordance with rules under the Superannuation Scheme. (4) All sums paid to or collected or recovered by the Department in pursuance of this section shall be paid into the Education (Scotland) Fund. 3. AMENDING SCHEME TO BE FRAMED.-(1) The Department shall as soon as may be after the passing of this Act frame an amending Scheme which shall be laid before each House of Parliament with a view to approval by Order in Council. (2) Section eight of the Act of 1919 shall apply to any amending Scheme framed in pursuance of the foregoing subsection, in like manner as it applies to the Scheme framed in pursuance of that Act, provided that such amending Scheme shall not come into operation until the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. 4. PROVISIONS OF AMENDING SCHEME. - (1) The amending Scheme to be framed in pursuance of the immediately preceding section of this Act shall include provision (a) for the repayment to a teacher or to his legal personal representatives, in circumstances and on conditions to be prescribed, of contributions made by him in terms of the Acts of 1922 and 1924 or of this Act, together with compound interest on each contribution as from the prescribed date calculated at the rate of three per centum per annum with yearly rests and for the cancellation on such repayment of the service in respect of which the said contributions were paid ; (b) for permitting a teacher in circumstances and on conditions to be prescribed to repay the sums repaid to him under the foregoing provisions of this section or under section two of the Act of 1922, together with compound interest thereon calculated from the date of repayment to him at the rate of three and a half per centum per annum with yearly rests, and for the restoration to such teacher on such repayment by him of such claims under the Superannuation Scheme as he would have had if no repayment had been made to him; (c) for securing that the total amount of benefit payable under the Superannuation Scheme to any teacher or to his legal personal representatives together with compound interest on any benefit calculated from the date of payment at three per centum per annum with yearly rests, shall not (save as may be otherwise provided in cases where benefit is payable also under the Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918 to 1925), be less than the total amount of the contributions paid by him under the Acts of 1922 and 1924 and this Act 15 & 16 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 55. together with compound interest on such contributions from the prescribed date calculated at three per centum per annum with yearly rests; (d) for enabling a teacher whose service is discontinued for a period not exceeding four years in the case of a teacher who during the period is in full-time employment as a teacher in any part of His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom, and not exceeding one year in any other case to pay into the Education (Scotland) Fund with the consent of the Department in respect of such period sums equal to ten per centum of his salary calculated in accordance with rules under the Superannuation Scheme, so that the said period may be reckoned as a period of service within the meaning of the Superannuation Scheme, and for determining the amount of such payments which shall be reckoned as contributions by the teacher. (2) The amending Scheme shall make such other provision as appears necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act of 1919, and of this Act and, without prejudice to the generality of this enactment, may further provide (a) for giving effect to any arrangements made with any authority administering any statutory Scheme of Superannuation for school teachers in any part of His Majesty's dominions, providing for the extension (whether with or without modification) of the Superannuation Scheme to service in the capacity of a teacher in that part of His Majesty's dominions and for the extension of such statutory Scheme to service within the meaning of the Superannuation Scheme. For the purposes of the foregoing provision the expression “ His Majesty's dominions" includes any territory which is under His Majesty's protection or in respect of which a mandate is being exercised by the Government of any part of His Majesty's dominions ; (b) for applying on such conditions and with such modifications in regard to contributions and otherwise as may be prescribed the provisions of the Superannuation Scheme to teachers in schools which are not otherwise within the scope of the said Scheme : Provided that the contributions payable by and in respect of such teachers shall be at rates prescribed from time to time after consultation with the Government Actuary with a view to securing that the contributions paid shall be equal in value to the benefits to be accorded in respect of such contributions ; (c) for the calculation of benefit in such special circumstances and in such manner as may be prescribed by reference to the actual period of service in lieu of the completed years of service ; (d) for the making by the Department of rules for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act and of the Superannuation Scheme as modified by the amending Scheme. 5. APPLICATION OF SCHEME AS MODIFIED BY AMENDING SCHEME. -The Superannuation Scheme as modified by the amending Scheme to be framed in pursuance of section three of this Act shall apply, in lieu of the scheme in operation prior to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, to (i) all teachers who are or shall be in service within the meaning of the Superannuation Scheme as so modified, on or after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, provided always that, if any teacher who is in such service on the said date, or any teacher who having discontinued such service prior to the said date returns to such service thereafter, gives notice to the Department within three months of the said date or of the date of such return as the case may be or, in any case where the special circumstances seem to the Department to justify an extension of the said period, within such extended period as the Department may fix, that he does not accept the amending Scheme the provisions of the Superannuation Scheme shall continue to apply to such teacher to the same effect as if the amending Scheme had not been made, and provided also that in the Superannuation |