EXHIBITION MEDALS BILL. 
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•offences against the Act, which was rejected, as it was contended that the master alone 
should be liable; however, on the return of the Bill to the Commons, this rejection was 
not agreed to, so that Bill stands as it was amended by the Commons.] 
A BILL INTITULED AN ACT TO PREVENT FALSE REPRESENTATIONS 
AS TO GRANTS OF MEDALS OR CERTIFICATES MADE BY THE COM¬ 
MISSIONERS FOR THE EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862. 
(. Presented by Lord SomerhilL Printed 20 tlx July, 1863.) 
Whereas it is expedient to prevent false representations with respect to grants of 
medals and certificates by the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Com¬ 
missioners for the Exhibition of 1862 : be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Ma¬ 
jesty, 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. If any trader commits any of the offences following ; that is to say, 
(1) Falsely represents that he has obtained a medal or certificate from the Exhibition 
Commissioners; 
(2) Falsely represents that any other trader has obtained a medal or certificate from the 
Exhibition Commissioners; 
(3) Falsely represents that any article sold or exposed for sale has been made by, or by 
any process invented by, a person who has obtained in respect of such article or 
process a medal or certificate from the Exhibition Commissioners ; 
He shall incur the following penalties ; that is to say, 
(1) For the first offence he shall forfeit to Her Majesty a sum not exceeding five 
pounds. 
(2) For any subsequent offence he shall forfeit to Her Majesty a sum not exceeding 
twenty pounds, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months. 
2. In proceedings under this Act it shall not be necessary to prove that any person 
has sustained damage by the false representations of the defendant. In proceedings 
under this Act the defendant shall be deemed, until he has proved the contrary, to have 
known the falsehood of any representation made by him that has been proved to be 
false. It shall not be necessary in any proceedings under this Act to set out any copy or 
facsimile of any medal or certificate. 
3. For the purposes of this Act “ The Exhibition Commissioners” shall mean the Com¬ 
missioners for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862, 
or either of such bodies of commissioners. The term “ defendant ” shall mean any person 
against whom proceedings may be taken under this Act. 
4. Offences under this Act may be prosecuted summarily in England and Ireland be¬ 
fore two justices; as to England, in manner directed by an Act passed in the session 
holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 
chapter forty-three, intituled “ An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of 
justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary 
convictions and orders,” or any Act amending the same ; as to Ireland, in manner di¬ 
rected by the Act passed in the session holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of 
the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “ An Act to consolidate and amend 
the Acts regulating the proceedings in petty sessions, and the duties of justices of the 
peace out of quarter sessions, in Ireland,” or any Act amending tlje same. In Scotland, 
an offence against this Act may be prosecuted summarily at the instance of the procu¬ 
rator fiscal before any sheriff or before any tw r o justices of the county, or before the ma¬ 
gistrates or any police magistrate of the burgh in which the offence was committed. 
5. No provision of this Act shall take away, diminish, or prejudicially affect any suit, 
process, proceeding, right, or remedy which any person may be entitled to at law, in 
equity, or otherwise ; nor exempt or excuse any person from answering or making disco¬ 
very upon examination as a witness, or upon interrogatories or otherwise, in any suit or 
other civil proceeding: Provided always, that no evidence, statement, or discovery which 
any person shall be compelled to give or make shall be admissible in evidence against 
