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Departmental duties.
(a) Inspection and re-inspection of premises;
(b) service of notices;
(c) legal proceedings;
(d) arrangements for carrying out work in default.
Section 13. (Exchequer contributions). The Exchequer
may pay 2/5ths of the cost of adapting fireplaces in all houses,
whether privately owned or controlled by the Local Authority.
The Local Authority's contribution will be 3/lOths in the case of
the privately owned house and 6/l0ths in the case of their own
houses.
Section 14. (Interpretation of two last preceding Sections).
Only work reasonably necessary to avoid contravention of a smoke
control area order qualifies for grant, but this work may include
adapting or converting a fireplace, replacing it by other means of
heating or cooking, altering flues and carrying out any consequential
operations.
Expenses include the cost of fixing appliances, even though
they may be easily removed without damage to the fabric of the
building. Appliances purchased under a hire-purchase agreement
will qualify for payment as if the cash price of the appliance had
been paid on the day of the agreement.
Section 15. (Power of Local Authority to make grants
towards adaptations to fireplaces in churches, chapels, buildings
used by charities, etc.) Local Authorities are given power under
Section 11 of the Act to make grants towards the cost of adaptations
as in the case of dwellings, to owners or occupiers of churches,
chapels, other places of worship, and other premises used by nonprofit
making organisations, whose main objects are charitable or
concerned with the advancement of religion, education or social
welfare.
Section 16. (Abatement of smoke nuisances). This is
concerned with smoke other than that from a domestic or industrial
chimney which shall, if it is a nuisance to the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, be deemed to be a nuisance, which may be dealt
with summarily under Section 282 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1930, and the Fifth Schedule thereto.
Departmental duties.
(a) Observations;
(b) service of notices;
(c) legal proceedings.