The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act, 1872.”

In this Act, the term “the said Act” means “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

Notwithstanding anything contained in the two hundred and thirty-ninth section of the said Act, it shall be lawful for the Council of any borough constituted under that Act to provide that the principal money and interest secured by debentures issued under the powers contained in the Sixteenth Part of the said Act shall be payable in any of the Australian Colonies; and in all respects the provisions of the said section, and of the said Sixteenth Part of the said Act, shall be applicable and extend to all debentures so made payable as aforesaid, as effectually as if the power hereby given had been expressly inserted in the said Act.

Every by-law made under the authority contained in the said Act, when approved and published in the Government Gazette of the Province in which the city or borough is, as provided by the one hundred and ninety-fourth section of the said Act, shall have the force of law within the city or borough, and shall have the same effect as if the provisions thereof were inserted in the said Act, and shall be unimpeachable in any Court of justice; and a copy of such Gazette, containing a print of matter purporting to be a by-law so approved as aforesaid, shall be primâ facie evidence of the due making and approval and publication of the by-law.

If any person quit or be about to quit any rateable property rated under the said Act before be have paid the rates then payable in respect thereof, and do not pay the same to the Council of the city and borough or their Collector on demand, any Justice may, upon the complaint of any officer of the Council, and upon such proof as shall appear satisfactory to such Justice, ex parte or otherwise, make an order directing the same to be paid by such person, either forthwith or at such time or times as to such Justice shall seem fit, and in default of immediate payment to levy for the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person.

It shall not, under and for the purposes of the two hundred and twenty-eighth section of the said Act or the last preceding section of this Act, be necessary to make a personal demand of rates; but it shall be sufficient if a demand in writing, or partly in writing and partly in print, shall have been left at or upon the premises in respect of which the rates are payable.