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Sewer Maintenance
Treatment against Rodent Infestation
As part of the organised campaign throughout the country
for the eradication of rats in sewers, etc., the whole of the
sewerage system was prebaited and poison baited twice during the
year. This work is undertaken by the staff of the Borough Engineer.
PROVISION OF DUSTBINS - New Legislation
The vexed question of who should provide the dustbin
the Owner or the Occupier, has been relieved, so far as the
Borough Council is concerned, by the new provisions contained in
Section 12 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1954. It is now the practice for the Council to ask the owner
to supply the dustbin.
The owner may now appeal to the Magistrates Court
against the requirements of the notice within 21 days on the
following grounds :–
1. (a) that the notice or any requirement thereof is not
justified by the terms of the section under which
notice purports to have been served;
(b) that there has been some informality defect or error
in or in connection with the notice;
(c) that the authority have refused unreasonably to approve
the carrying out of alternative proposals or that the
requirements of the notice are otherwise unreasonable
in charaoter or extent or are unnecessary;
(d) that the time allowed by the notice for compliance
with its requirements is not reasonably sufficient
for that purpose;
(e) that the notice might lawfully have been served upon
some person other than the appellant and that it would
have been equitable for it to have been so served;
(f) that the notice requires the execution of works which
would be for the common benefit of two or more premises
and that some other person (being the owner or occupier
of premises to be benefited) ought to contribute towards
the expenses of executing any works required;