not exceeding seven years, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. 4. The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by this Application of Act, shall apply to proclamations, orders, and regulations issued by Act to Ireland. the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, either alone or acting with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, as fully as it applies to proclamations, orders, and regulations issued by Her Majesty. In the same Act, the term "the Privy Council" shall include the Privy Council in Ireland, or any committee thereof. In the same Act, and in this Act, the term "the Government Printer" shall include any printer to Her Majesty in Ireland and any printer printing in Ireland under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. CHAPTER 10. An Act for making provision for facilitating the Manœuvres WHEREAS it is intended that during the present summer a large body of troops should be assembled for the purposes of military instruction within the area described in the schedule hereto, which area is herein-after referred to as the limits of this Act: And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for facilitating the exercise of the said troops, and for making compensation to persons whose lands may be damaged by the passage of such troops, and for other purposes connected with such assemblage of troops: Be it enacted by the Queen'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: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Military Short title. Manoeuvres Act, 1882. Regulations as to the forces. 2. Within the limits of this Act the forces to which this Act Passage of forces over applies, in this Act referred to as "the forces," with their arms, forces lands. munitions of war, and stores, may pass over any unenclosed or any authorised enclosed lands, whether public or private, and may execute military manoeuvres on such lands. They may also encamp on any unenclosed lands, and for the purpose of any encampment, or for military exercises, dig trenches and throw up temporary field works on any such lands. The forces may supply themselves with water from any authorised sources of water, and may, for the purpose of obtaining such supply, dam up any running water, use any private or occupation roads, and do all such other acts and things as may be required. 3. Nothing in this Act contained shall empower the forces to enter Lands closed upon or interfere with any dwelling-house, farmyard, garden, orchard, against passage of forces. Compensation for damage done by forces. Commission for declaring what lands to be authorised making regu lations. pleasure ground, nursery ground, park, or any premises enclosed within the curtilage of or attached to any dwelling-house, or any lands bearing roots or standing crops, or any underwoods, or any enclosed lands, except enclosed lands which may be declared to be lands on which the forces are authorised to enter, in this Act referred to as authorised enclosed lands. 4. Full compensation shall be made, out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, for any damage that may be caused to any lands within the limits of this Act, by or in consequence of the forces, or the strangers accompanying such forces, passing over or occupying such lands; and the amount of compensation payable to any person entitled to such compensation shall, if disputed, in each case of damage be determined as herein-after mentioned; but no person belonging to the forces shall be liable to any action, suit, indictment, or other legal proceeding in respect of any trespass committed by him upon or damage done to land situate within the limits of this Act. 5. A commission shall be formed, consisting of the Lords Lieutenant of the respective counties of Berks, Hants, and Surrey, and the members representing in this present Parliament the county for purposes of of Berks, the Northern Division of the county of Hants, and the Act, and Western Division of the county of Surrey, respectively; and one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time, by writing under his hand, add to their number, or fill up any vacancy occasioned in their number by the death, resignation, or unwillingness to act of any member of such commission. The commission shall make such rules as to their places and times of meeting, their quorum at meetings, and their modes of procedure, as they think fit. Every question shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members of the commission voting on that question. The officer in command of the forces, and the said commission, in this Act called the consultative commission, shall from time to time by order authorise anything by this Act directed or permitted to be authorised, and in particular declare what enclosed lands are to be deemed to be authorised lands for the purposes of this Act, and what sources of water are to be deemed authorised sources of water. The said officer and commission may also by order make regulations with respect to the protection of cattle and sheep by securing the same in folds or farmyards, and with respect to any other matter or thing which they may deem essential for the purpose of preventing damage to property and for the more efficiently carrying into effect the purposes of this Act. Public notice shall be given, in such manner as may be directed by the consultative commission, of any regulation made in pursuance of this Act for the protection of any cattle, sheep, or other property, and no person who neglects to comply with any regulations so made in relation to his property shall be entitled to claim compensation in respect of any damage caused to such property in consequence of his having been guilty of such neglect as aforesaid. The consultative commission may from time to time delegate any of the powers by this Act given to them to any committee or committees consisting of two or more of their number, and any such committee or committees shall from time to time attend upon and be in communication with the officer commanding the forces, or any officer or officers deputed by him, during the time such forces are assembled in pursuance of this Act. Any powers by this Act given to the consultative commission and the officer in command of the forces of making any order or doing any other act or thing may be exercised on behalf of the commission by any member or members of such commission to whom such powers may from time to time be delegated by the commission, and on behalf of the officer in command of the forces by any officer or officers from time to time deputed by him for the purpose; and for the purpose of facilitating the exercise of the powers conferred by this Act on such commission and officer in command, the said commission and officer shall make arrangements for securing the attendance of a sufficient number of members of the said commission at such places and with such bodies of troops as may be agreed upon, with the view of the members so in attendance acting for the purposes of this section in conjunction with the officer in command of the forces or any officers deputed by him. Any order made in pursuance of this Act in relation to lands or any local matter may describe such lands or matter by reference to a map or in any other convenient manner, and any order declaring what lands are to be deemed authorised enclosed lands may either describe the lands so authorised, or may declare all the lands within the limits of this Act, or within any particular area with the specified exceptions, to be authorised enclosed lands. Any order declaring what sources of water are to be deemed authorised sources of water may either describe the sources so authorised, or may declare all the sources of water within the limits of this Act or any part thereof, with the specified exceptions, to be authorised sources of water. Any order made under this Act may be altered or amended, or a new order made in lieu thereof. 6. The following enactments shall be made with respect to Mode of decompensation for damage under this Act: termining the compensation payable in passage of (1.) The Treasury shall appoint a fit person, in this Act called the compensation officer, whose duty it shall be, immediately respect of the forces have ceased to occupy or pass over any part of damage by the land within the limits of this Act, to ascertain the damage forces. done, and, as far as practicable, to settle summarily by agreement the amount of compensation, in which case the compensation officer shall either cause the compensation to be paid at once, or shall give a writing to the person entitled, stating the amount to be paid, and the place and date at which the same will be paid, such date not being later than thirty days from the time at which such writing is given : (2.) The mode in which claims of compensation are to be sent to the compensation officer shall be notified within the limits of the Act in manner directed by the consultative commission. Every claim for compensation shall be sent to the compensation officer immediately after the forces have ceased to occupy or pass over the land in respect of which compensation is claimed, and at the latest within one week after the damage is done: 45 VICT. (3.) Compensation may be paid to the person in actual occupation of the land in respect of which it is claimed, or, in case of his absence or inability, to his wife or some member of his family, or to his steward, or other person acting for him in the cultivation and management of the land, whose receipt shall be a complete discharge for the damage in respect of which the compensation is paid: (4.) The Treasury may, if they think fit, appoint two or more persons to be compensation officers, and each of the persons so appointed shall perform the duties and have the powers by this Act conferred on the compensation officer : (5.) If the compensation officer fails to settle any claim for compensation, or is unable to decide the person to whom compensation is payable, the case shall be referred by him to the court of arbitration established under this Act, with a statement by the compensation officer of what he considers a fair compensation for the damage done : (6.) A court of arbitration shall, if required, be formed, consisting of three persons, one of whom shall be named by the consultative commission, in writing under the hands of any two or more of the members of that commission, one by the Treasury, and the third by the two persons already named in writing under their hands, or, in case of their failure to agree as to such appointment within six days, by the chief justice of the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice: (7.) Any vacancy in the office of any member of the court of arbitration occasioned by death, resignation, unwillingness to act, or otherwise, shall be filled up by the authority which appointed the vacating member in the same manner in which the vacating member was appointed: (8.) There shall be paid to the members of the court of arbitration such compensation as the said Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine: (9.) The court of arbitration shall have full power to decide all questions whatsoever, whether of law or fact, which it may be necessary to decide for the purpose of awarding compensation under this Act, and in particular to decide in any case of alleged damage to lands whether such damage was or was not caused by or in consequence of the forces, or the strangers accompanying such forces, passing over or occupying such lands, and also (if such damage was so caused) to determine the person entitled to receive compensation for such damage; and the court of arbitration shall not be subject to be restrained in the due execution of its powers by the order of any court, nor shall any proceedings before it be removed by certiorari into any court, nor shall any award by it be set aside: (10.) The court of arbitration may examine witnesses on oath, and shall for that purpose have power to administer an oath and with respect to the enforcing the attendance of witnesses after a tender of their expenses, the examination of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents, shall have (12.) The court of arbitration may appoint a valuer, and may (14.) The court of arbitration may review and rescind or vary (15.) The court of arbitration shall publish in such manner as it thinks fit directions as to the mode in which applications are to be made to it under this Act: (16.) The court of arbitration shall not be bound to hear any counsel or solicitor, but any person claiming compensation may appear in person or by some agent authorised by him in writing, and the court of arbitration may, in addition to compensation for damage, grant further compensation for costs reasonably incurred in substantiating a claim, or may refuse such costs wholly or partially, or reduce the amount of compensation if the person claiming refused a fair offer from the compensation officer: (17.) Any person fraudulently claiming and receiving compensa- Regulations as to persons not belonging to the forces, and 7. If any stranger commits any trespass upon or does any damage Offences to any lands within the limits of this Act, he shall be guilty of an against Act. offence against this Act, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, in addition to making full compensation in money for any damage he may have caused. Any stranger going on any lands within the limits of this Act on which the public is not entitled by law to go without the permission of the officer in command of the forces, or of some officer deputed by him, shall be deemed to have committed a trespass on such lands, and be punishable accordingly. If any stranger, not having such permission as aforesaid, when warned not to go on any land within the limits of this Act, attempts to go thereon, or when on such land and warned to depart therefrom, refuses so to depart, he shall, in addition to any other |