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houses intended for the working class. Such by-laws may
impose any duty involving the execution of work upon the owner
in addition to or in substitution for any other person having an
interest in the premises. This Section also provides for the entry
of the owner or other persons upon the premises at all reasonable
times.
Also provides in default of owner or other person required to
execute work under the by-laws, for the local authority doing the
necessary work and recovering costs and expenses.
Sec. 17. Supersedes section 32 of the principal Act and sets
out the duty of the local authority with respect to closing and
demolition orders. This gives the local authority power to
prohibit by an order the use of a dwelling house for human
occupation, where from information received such premises appear
to them to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to
be unfit for occupation.
An owner aggrieved by the order may appeal to the Local
Government Board.
This Section also provides, where a closing order has been
made, for a copy of the same to be served upon every occupying
tenant; also for the payment in certain cases of a reasonable
allowance to the tenants on account of expenses in removing.
When the local authority are satisfied that the dwelling house
has been made fit for habitation they may determine a closing
order, and if the local authority refuse on the application of an
owner to determine a closing order he may appeal to the Local
Government Board.
By sub-section (7) special provisions are made in regard to
underground rooms habitually used as sleeping places. These are