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(3) If any person in the employ of the Sanitary Authority, or of any
contractor with the Sanitary Authority, demands from an occupier
or his servant any fee or gratuity for removing any house refuse
from any premises, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty
shillings.
The ordinary period mentioned in the above Sec. 30 (1) (b) is that named in
Bye law 7 of the Bye-laws of the London County Council, under Sec. 16 (2)
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as to the removal and disposal of
refuse. "The Sanitary Authority shall cause to be removed not less frequently
than once in every week the house-refuse produced on all premises
within their district."
Some occupiers appear to think that, although a heavy penalty may be imposed
upon the Authority for not causing the house-refuse to be removed
every week, they, on the contrary, may keep the refuse as long as they
think fit; but this is not so, as the following section of the Metropolis Local
Management Act shows the intention of the Legislature:—
Sec. 126.— Any occupier of any house or land, or other person, who
refuses or does not permit any soil, dirt, ashes, or filth to be
taken away by the scavengers appointed by or contracting with
any Vestry or Board, as aforesaid, or who obstructs the said
scavengers in the performance of their duty, shall for every such
offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £5.
As the Destructor erected by your Yestry will shortly come into use,
attention may be called to the following Bye-laws made under Sec. 30 (1) (b)
of the Public Health (Loudon) Act. 1891., by the London County Council as
to the removal and disposal of refuse:—
8.—Where, for the purposes of subsequent removal, any cargo, load, or
collection of offensive refuse has been temporarily brought to or
deposited in any place within a sanitary district, the owner (whether
a Sanitary Authority or any other person) or consignee of such
cargo, load, or collection of refuse, or any person who may have
undertaken to deliver the same, or who is in charge of the same,
shall not without a reasonable excuse permit or allow or cause such
refuse to remain in such place for a longer period than twenty-four
hours.
Provided (a) that this Bye-law shall not apply in cases where the place
of temporary deposit is distant at least one hundred yards from any
street, and is distant at least three hundred yards from any building
or premises used wholly or partly for human habitation, or as a
school, or as a place of public worship or of public resort or public
assembly, or from any building or premises in or on which any person
may be employed in any manufacture, trade, or business, or from
any public park or other open space dedicated or used for the purposes
of recreation, or from any reservoir or stream used for the
purposes of domestic water supply; (b) that this Bye-law shall not
prohibit the deposit, within the prescribed distances, of road-slop
unmixed with stable manure for any period not exceeding one week,
which may be necessary for the separation of water therefrom.