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(4) Within twenty-one days after the receipt of such notice
the landlord may by written notice to the local authority declare
his intention of closing the house for human habitation, and thereupon
a closing order shall be deemed to have become operative
in respect of such house.
(5) If the notice given by the local authority is not complied
with, and if the landlord has not given the notice mentioned in the
immediately preceding subsection, the authority may, at the
expiration of the time specified in the notice given by them to the
landlord, do the work required to be done and recover the expenses
incurred by them in so doing from the landlord as a civil debt in
manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, or, if they
think fit, the authority may by order declare any such expenses to
be payable by annual instalments within a period not exceeding
that of the interest of the landlord in the house, nor in any case
five years, with interest at a rate not exceeding five pounds per
cent. per annum, until the whole amount is paid, and any such
instalments or interest or any part thereof may be recovered from
the landlord as a civil debt in manner provided by the Summary
Jurisdiction Acts.
(6) A landlord may appeal to the Local Government Board
against any notice requiring him to execute works under this
section, and against any demand for the recovery of expenses from
him under this section or order made with respect to those expenses
under this section by the authority, by giving notice of appeal to
the Board within twenty-one days after the notice is received,
or the demand or order is made, as the case may be, and no
proceedings shall be taken in respect of such notice requiring
works, order, or demand, whilst the appeal is pending.
(7) In this section the expression "landlord" means any
person who lets to a tenant for habitation the house under any
contract referred to in this section, and includes his successors
in title; and the expression "house" includes part of a house.
(8) Sections forty-nine and fifty of the principal Act as
amended by section thirteen of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1903 (which relate to the service of notices and the
description of owner in proceedings), shall apply for the purposes
of this section, with the substitution, where required, of the
landlord for the owner of a dwelling-house.