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of enforcing these provisions in their application to any premises
belonging to or used by a sanitary authority. Furthermore, the
County Council may spend money up to £500 per annum upon experiments
and investigations with respect to smoke consumption and the
abatement of nuisance arising from smoke.
The above-mentioned sections are as follows:—
Section 23.—(1) Every furnace employed in the working of engines
by steam, and every furnace employed in any public bath
or washhouse, or in any mill, factory, printing-house, dyehouse,
iron foundry, glasshouse, distillery, brewhouse,
sugar refinery, bakehouse, gasworks, water-works, or other
buildings used for the purpose of trade or manufacture
(although a steam engine be not used or employed therein),
shall be constructed so as to consume or burn the smoke
'arising from such furnace.
(2) If any person, being the owner or occupier of the
premises, or being a foreman or other person employed
by such owner or occupier—
(a) Uses any such furnace which is not constructed
so as to consume or burn the smoke arising
therefrom; or
(b) So negligently uses any such furnace as that the
smoke arising therefrom is not effectually consumed
or burnt; or
(c) Carries on any trade or business which occasions
any noxious or offensive effluvia, or otherwise
annoys the neighbourhood or inhabitants, without
using the best practicable means for preventing
or counteracting such effluvia or other annoyance
;'
such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five
pounds, and on a second conviction to a fine of ten
pounds, and on each subsequent occasion to a fine
double the amount of the fine imposed on the last preceding
conviction.