The Sales of Gas (Scotland) Act 1864 received
royal assent on 29 July 1864. Its long title is ‘An Act to enable certain Royal and Parliamentary Burghs in Scotland to avail themselves of the Provisions of the Acts Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Victoria, chapter Sixty-six, and Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Victoria chapter one hundred and forty-six, for regulating the Sale of Gas.’ The Act comprises a single Section entitled: Magistrates of certain Burghs may apply to their district provisions of recited Acts. == Amendments ==