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Battersea 1893

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893

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used for storing of water used or likely to be used by man for
drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drink for
the use of man, is used for supplying water to persons occupying
two or more separately occupied premises, the foregoing requirements
shall apply to the owner of such premises instead of
to any occupier thereof.
The person in occupation of, or having the charge, management,
or control of the premises, or if there is no such person
then any person in occupation of, or having the charge, management
or control of any part of the premises, and in the case of
any premises the whole of which is let to lodgers, the person receiving
the rent payable by the lodgers, either on his own
account, or as the agent of another person, shall, for the purposes
of this bye-law be deemed to be the occupier.
5. The occupier of any premises or any other person shall
not obstruct or interfere with the owner of such premises, or with
any person duly authorized by him in that behalf, in the execution
of any work to which the foregoing bye-laws relate.
Penalties.
6. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
bye-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty
of Jive pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further
penalty of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the
offence from the Sanitary Authority :
Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before
whom any complaint may be made or any proceedings may be
taken in respect of any such offence may, if they think fit,
adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full
amount of the penalty imposed by this bye-law.