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332  person or persons to inquire into the conditions of the district or trade, and to confer with the employers and employed, and, if the Board of Trade think fit, with any local authority or body, as to the expediency of establishing a conciliation board for the district or trade.

5. The Board of Trade shall from time to time present to Parliament a report of their proceedings under this Act

The expenses incurred by the Board of Trade in the execution of this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

7. The Masters and Workmen Arbitration Act, 1824, and the Councils of Conciliation Act, 1867, and the Arbitration (Masters and Workmen) Act, 1872, are hereby repealed.

8. This Act may be cited as the Conciliation Act, 1896.

  An Act to amend the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. [7th August 1896.]

E 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 as the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1896.

2. Any land acquired by a local authority for the purposes of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement (Scotland) Acts, 1875 to 1880, and still held by and vested in them shall be deemed to be held by and vested in them for the purposes of Part L and relative provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, without the necessity of expeding or recording any notarial or other instrument.

3. Section ninety-six, sub-section two, of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890; shall be read and construed as if the words "and any Acts amending the same" had been inserted after "1871" and as if the words '*in the case of a rural sanitary authority " had been inserted after the words " provided that " occurring in that sub-section.

4. The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1892, is hereby repealed.

