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Hackney 1893

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1893

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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 byelaw 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 authorised by him in that behalf, in the execution of any work
to which the foregoing byelaws relate.
Penalties.
Penalties. 6. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of five 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
byelaw.
The Seal of the Board of Works for the Hackney District was hereunto
affixed on the 24th January, 1894.
J. SCHOFIELD,
Chairman of the Board of Works
for the Hackney District.
Seal of
the Board of
Works for the
Hackney
District.
H. McLACHLAN.
HENRY HULLAND,
GEORGE GROCOTT. Deputy Acting Clerk.