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paper from the wllas of such house or the part thereof specified in the
notice and to take such other steps for the purpose of destroying and
removing vermin as the case may require.
(2) If the person to whom such notice is given fails to comply therewith
within the time therein specified he shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding ten shillings for every day during which he
make sdefault in complying with the requirements of such notice, and the
sanitary authority may if they think fit at any time after the expiration
of the period specified in the notice themselves do any work required
by the notice to be done and all reasonable costs and expenses iucurred
by the sanitary authority in so doing shall (subject as hereinafter provided)
be recovered summarily as a civil debt from the person making
the default.
(3) Upon any proceedings under this section the court may inquire
as to any requirement contained in any notice given or any work done
by the sanitary authority was reasonable and as to whether the costs
an expenses incurred by the sanitary authority in doing such work or
any part thereof ought to be borne wholly or in part by the person to
whom the notice was given and the court may make such order concerning
such costs and expenses or their apportionment as appears to the court
to be just and equitable under the circumstances of the case.
21. Section 59 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, shall for the
purposes of the last two preceding sections of this Act extend and be
applicable to the provision of means for cleansing, purifying, and destroying
filthy, dangerous, or unwholesome articles, and for the removal thereof
and for the cleansing of houses infested with vermin, as if the said section
59 were re-enacted herein and in terms made applicable thereto.
22. If any sanitary convenience now or dereafter erected in or accessible
from any street in any sanitary district shall be so placed or constructed
as to be a nuisance or offensive to public decency the sanitary
authority of that district by notice in writing may require the owner to
remove such convenience or otherwise to reconstruct the same in such a
manner and with such materials as may be required to abate the nuisance
ind remove the offence against public decency. Any owner who fails
within a reasonable time to comply with a notice under this section
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds
and to a further fine not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during