4. All Bye-Laws or Regulations, or parts of Bye-Laws or Regulations (if any) heretofore in force in and for the said City of Christchurch which are inconsistent with or repugnant to the said provisions, or in any respect deal or purport to deal with the said provisions, are hereby repealed.

Passed by the said Council this Sixteenth day of May, 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

George Gordon,
Town Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above Bye-Law is in compliance, as regards the City of Christchurch, with the 184th section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

George Gordon,
Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW NO. 8.

Fire Prevention.

INDEX

1. Wilfully Setting Fire to Chimneys.
2. Negligently suffering Chimney to be on Fire.
3. Regulations.
4. Stacks or Coverings, &c., in violation of or otherwise than required by Regulation.
5. Setting Fire to matter without notice.
6. Fireworks.
7. Brush Fences.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 181st section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows:—

The provisions contained in part VIII. of the 18th Schedule of the said Act, sub-sections 1 and 2 are hereby adopted for the said City as follows, namely—

FIRE PREVENTION.

(1.) FOUL CHIMNEYS.

1. Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke vent, or stove pipe, herein called in common "chimney," shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt the person so setting, or causing to be set, on fire any chimney from liability to be informed against or prosecuted before any criminal court for such act as for an indictable offence.

2. If any chimney accidentally catch or Negligently be on fire, the person occupying or using the premises in which such chimney is situated shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings. Provided always that such forfeiture shall not be incurred if such person prove to the satisfaction of the justice before whom the case is heard, that such fire was in no wise owing to the omission, neglect, or carelessness, whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise, of himself or his servant.

(2.) DEPOSIT, ETC., OF INFLAMMABLE MATERIALS, ETC.

3. It shall be lawful for the Council Regulations, from time to time to make Regulations for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say—

   For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to make or keep any stack of hay, corn straw, or other produce if not placed under roof or cover, and the like where placed under roof or cover, and for prohibiting or restraining the use for such covering of such inflammable materials as shall be described in such Regulations.

   For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land, or from any street or public place, or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to deposit such combustible materials as shall be specified in the Regulations, or save in some properly constructed fireplace within some building to make or light any fire.

   And every such Regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to any part or parts of the Borough described by boundaries in such Bye-Law, and may provide as to the subject-matter thereof, either absolutely or with relation to the consent of the Council, or of the proper officer of the Council, to be given or withheld in any case to be in question under such Regulation.

4. Every person who shall make or place any stack of hay, corn straw or other produce, logs, esparto, or place as or for the covering of any such stack any inflammable material, or deposit required by any combustible material, or light any fire contrary in any such case to any Regulation under this sub-division, and every occupier of any premises whereon any stack or any such covering of a stack shall be, or any combustible materials have been deposited, if the same, though lawfully made, placed, or deposited before the coming into force of any such Regulation, shall be there contrary to the tenor of such Regulation, who shall not within seven days after notice from the Council so to do remove such stack, covering, or materials, or who shall suffer to re-